BRIEF NOTES ON THE ART AND MANNER OF
ARRANGING ONE’S BOOKS MOVIES
BIANCA IDROVO
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BIANCA IDROVO
TABLE OF CONTENTS An Introduction
The Female’s Choice
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The Male’s Choice
17 The Neutral Choice
28 Design Elements
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AN INTRODUCTION Each section’s beginning text is credited to Georges Perec’s Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books. The book’s arrangement is based on gender and what one would expect the majority of the viewers to be for the movies selected. All of the films selected are in numerical order within each section. Pictographic elements are included based on Amazon research and ratings.
These perspectives are important elements to the basis of this book. Genders are expected to like or disklike movies based on their sex. The comments included in the word bubbles are actual customer reviews from Amazon which either prove the assumption right or wrong.
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THE FEMALE’S CHOICE
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Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways. One of my friends had the idea one day of stopping his library at 361 books. The plan was as follows: having attained, by addition or subtraction, and starting from a given number n of books, the number K = 361, deemed as corresponding to a library, if not an ideal then at least a sufficient library, he would undertake to acquire on a permanent basis a new book X only after having eliminated (by giving away, throwing out, selling or any other appropriate means) an old book Z, so that the total number K of works should remain constant and equal to 361: K + X >361> K - Z. As it evolved this seductive scheme came up against predictable obstacles for which the unavoidable solutions were found. First, a volume was to be seen as counting as one (1) book even if it contained three (3) novels (or collections of poems, essays, etc.); from which it was deduced that three (3) or four (4) or n (n) novels by the same author counted (implicitly) as one (1) volume by that author, as fragments not yet brought together but ineluctably bringable together in a Collected Works. Whence it was adjudged that this or that recently acquired novel by this or that English- language novelist of the second half of the nineteenth century Captain Nemo’s 12,000 volumes, uniformly bound, were thus classified once and for all, and all the more simply because the classification, as is made clear to us, was uncertain, at least from the language point of view (a detail which does not at all concern the art of arranging a library but is meant simply to remind us that Captain Nemo spoke all languages indiscriminately). But for us, who continue to have to do with a human race that insists on thinking, writing and above all publishing, the increasing size of our libraries tends to become the one real problem. For it’s not too difficult, very
obviously, to keep ten or twenty or let’s say even a hundred books; but once you start to have 361, or a thousand, could not logically count as a new work X but as a work Z belonging to a series under construction: the set T of all the novels writtenby the aforesaid novelist (and God knows there are some!). This didn’t alter the original scheme in any way at all: only instead of talking about 361 books, it was decided that the sufficient library was ideally to be made up of 361 authors, whether they had written a slender opuscule or enough to fill a truck. This modification proved effective over several years. But it soon became apparent that certain works - romances of chivalry, for example - had no author or else had several authors, and that certain authors - the Dadaists, for example - could not be kept separate from one another without automatically losing 80 to 90 per cent of what made them interesting. The idea was thus reached of a library restricted to 361 subjects - the term is vague but the groups it covers are vague also at times - and up until now that limitation has been strictly observed. So then, one of the chief problems encountered by the man who keeps the books he has read or promises himself that he will one day read is that of the increase in his library. Not everyone has the good fortune to be Captain Nemo: ‘...the world ended
for me the day my Nautilus dived for the first time beneath the waves. On that day I bought my last volumes, my last pamphlets, my last newspapers, and since that time I would like to believe that mankind has neither thought nor written.’ Captain Nemo’s 12,000 volumes, uniformly bound, were thus classified once and for all, and all the more simply because the classification, as is made clear to us, was uncertain, at least from the language point of view (a detail which does not at all concern the art of arranging a library but is meant simply to remind us that Captain Nemo spoke all languages indiscriminately). But for us, who continue to have to do with ahuman race that insists on thinking, writing and above all publishing, the increasing size of our libraries tends to become the one real problem. For it’s not too difficult, very obviously, to keep ten or twenty or let’s say even a hundred books; but once you start to have 361, or a thousand, or three thousand, and especially when the total starts to increase every day or thereabouts, the problem arises, first of all of arranging all these books somewhere and then of being able to lay your handon them one day when, for whatever reason, you either want or need to read them at last or even to reread them. Thus the problem of a library is shown to be twofold: a problem of space first of all, then a problem of order.
OUT OF 590 REVIEWS
[PG-13]
“This is just a fun movie. I loved it and watch it every so often Just a fun movie and not a kids movie either. Kat is sexy and the chemistry with her and Heath is great.”
“This movie is a must have for anybody. It’s adorable and full of cute comedy. I absolutely love Heath Ledger and this is a great movie with him in it :) Win win.”
PERSPECTIVES TONY MARTIN
97 MINUTES 10
E.B
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU Directed by Gil Junger 1999 Adapted from William Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew,” 10 Things I Hate About You starts off with Cameron, new student at Padua High, sitting in the office of the quirky guidance counselor Ms. Perky. He is then shown around the school by Michael, who will become his best friend. During his tour is when Cameron first sees Bianca Stratford, a beautiful sophomore with one problem: she isn’t allowed to date. And neither is her “shrew” sister, Katarina, a senior who loves indie rock and feminist prose and hates conformity. But Kat and Bianca’s father alters his house rule: now,
Bianca can date, as long as Kat has a date, too. In order for Cameron to date Bianca, he has to find someone to date Kat. So Michael helps him enlist the help of pretty-boy/ jerk/model Joey Donner, tricking him into thinking that he will get to take Bianca out if he pays someone to take out Kat. His choice: Patrick Verona, a bad-boy with a mysterious reputation--some say he ate a live duck once, others that he lit a state trooper on fire, and even more claim that he had a brief porn career. Will Patrick win Kat’s heart? Will Cameron win Bianca’s? Or will everything hit the fan? Erica Baffa IMDB
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OUT OF 413 REVIEWS
[R]
“I was hoping for a nice rom com to share with my daughter, but I couldn’t even make it half of the way through this movie before I decided to chuck it.”
“Amazing Classic! Love the Brat Pack!! I would recommend this movie to anyone. Its a great classic and is Hilarious!”
PERSPECTIVES ARTHUR WENDORF
94 MINUTES 12
RACHAEL
SIXTEEN CANDLES Directed by John Hughes 1984 Samantha’s life is going downhill fast. The fifteen-year-old has a crush on the most popular boy in school, and the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister’s getting married, and with all the excitement the rest of her family forgets
her birthday! Add all this to a pair of horrendously embarrassing grandparents, a foreign exchange student named Long Duc Dong, and we have the makings of a hilarious journey into young womanhood. Rick Munoz IMDB
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OUT OF 177 REVIEWS
[PG-13]
“This movie could really look at the problems of beating substance abuse, and look at Bullock’s range of talents. It does well, but it is trimmed too closely. The actors are generally very good, but it is clearly a Bullock film.”
“had seen this many times but I still love it! Bought it for ym sister and I to watch. Sandra = awesome, as always!”
PERSPECTIVES CLARENCE ELLIS
104 MINUTES 14
LAUREN MILLER
28 DAYS Directed by Betty Thomas 2000 After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister’s wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol
addiction. After getting to know some of the other patients, Gwen gradually begins to re-examine her life and see that she does, in fact, have a serious problem. The path to recovery will not be easy, and success will not be guaranteed or even likely, but she is now willing to give it a try. Jean-Marc Rocher IMDB
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1.4 Things which aren’t books but are often met with in libraries Photographs in gilded brass frames, small engravings, pen and ink drawings, dried flowers in stemmed glasses, matchbox-holders containing, or not, chemical matches (dangerous), lead soldiers, a photograph of Ernest Renan in his study at the Collége de France,* postcards, dolls’ eyes, tins, packets of salt, pepper and mustard from Lufthansa, letter-scales, picture hooks, marbles, pipe-cleaners, scale models of vintage cars, multicoloured pebbles and gravel, ex-votos, springs.
2. Of Order ordered alphabetically ordered by continent or country A library that is not arranged becomes disarranged: this is the example I was given to try and get me to understand what entropy was and which I have several times verified experimentally. Disorder in a library is not serious in itself; it ranks with ‘Which drawer did I put my socks in?’. We always think we shall know instinctively where we have put such and such a book. And even if we don’t know, it will never be difficult to go rapidly along all the shelves.
1. Of Space 1.1. Generalities Books are not dispersed but assembled. Just as we put all the pots of jam into a jam cupboard, so we put all our books into the same place, or into several same places. Even though we want to keep them, we might pile our books away into trunks, put them in the cellar or the attic, or in the bottoms of wardrobes, but we generally prefer them to be visible. In practice, books are most often arranged one beside the other, along a wall or division, on rectilinear supports, parallel with one another, neither too deep nor too far apart. Books are arranged - usually standing on end and in such a way that the title printed on the sine of the work can be seen (sometimes, as in bookshop windows, the cover of the books is displayed, but it is unusual, proscribed and nearly always considered shocking to have only the edge of the book on show). In current room layouts, the library is known as an ‘area’ for books. This, most often, is a module belonging as a whole to the ‘living-room’, which likewise contains a: drop-leaf drinks cabinet drop-leaf writing desk two-door dresser hi-fi unit television console slide projector
display cabinet etc. and is offered in catalogues adorned with a few false bindings. In practice books can be assembled just about anywhere.
1.2. Rooms where books may be put in the entrance hall in the sitting room in the bedroom(s) in the bog Generally speaking, one kind of book is put in the room you cook in, the ones known as ‘cookery books’. It is extremely rare to find books in a bathroom, even though for many people this is a favourite place to read in. The surrounding humidity is unanimously considered a prime enemy of the conservation of printed texts. At the most, you may find in a bathroom a medicine cupboard and in the medicine cupboard a small work entitled What to do before the doctor gets there.
1.3. Places in a room where books can be arranged On the shelves of fireplaces or over radiators (it may be thought, even so, that heat may, in the long run, prove somewhat harmful), between two windows,in the embrasure of an unused door, on the steps of a library ladder, making this unusable (very chic), underneath a window,on a piece of furniture set at an angle and dividing the room into two (very chic, creates an even better effect with a few pot-
Opposed to this apologia for a sympathetic disorder is the small-minded temptation towards an individual bureaucracy: one thing for each place and each place for its one thing, and vice versa. Between these two tensions, one which sets a premium on letting things be, on a goodnatured anarchy, the other that exalts the virtues of the tabula rasa, the cold efficiency of the great arranging, one always ends by trying to set one’s books in order.
THE MALE’S CHOICE
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ONE HOUR PHOTO Directed by Mark Romanek 2002 Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specifically Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family’s photofinishing - than anyone else, the family about who he is obsessed. Nina’s husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental
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to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy’s obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite “Uncle Sy”. He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state. Huggo IMDB
OUT OF 339 REVIEWS
[R]
“Robin Williams turns in an amazing, intense, haunting performance. Striking cinematography. A must-see outside-the-box thriller for any Robin Williams fan.”
“Super creepy! Totally not your typical Robin Williams movie! Kind of boring at first, but the story line is needed to fully grasp what happens later.”
PERSPECTIVES ROBERT LOWE
ASHLIE, FL
96 MINUTES 19
THR3E Directed by Robby Henson 2007 Thr3e, a thriller that investigates a particularly savvy criminal mind, exceeds the average terrorist plot action-drama with psychological complexity. However, its psychotic twist lacks originality compared to films like Fight Club, which also attribute schizophrenia to the protagonist’s cruel actions. When Kevin Parson’s (Marc Blucas) writer’s block for completing his theology PhD thesis paper about the nature of good and evil coincides with his receiving threatening phone calls from a local terrorist named The Riddle Killer, his closest childhood friend, Samantha Sheer (Laura Jordan), and a
police officer, Jennifer Peters (Justine Waddell), jump in to help save him. But as Kevin’s past childhood traumas are unearthed alongside evidence that The Riddle Killer couldn’t possibly be involved with threats on Kevin’s life, Samantha and Jennifer slowly begin to suspect that Kevin is actually committing crimes against himself. Though the film’s moralistic Christian ending feels tacked on, Kevin’s investigation into the human subtleties that blur lines between good and evil is portrayed intriguingly, manifesting as a film that mines common territory among criminals and the mentally ill. Trinie Dalton AMAZON
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OUT OF 44 REVIEWS
[PG-13]
“One of Ted Dekkers best Christian novels was turned into a movie and done perfectly. Just like the book you will never the ending coming.”
“It was just like the book which makes me very happy! I loved it!! I would recommend all of Ted Dekker’s books! They are amazing!”
PERSPECTIVES JOSHUA BAKER
SHARON LADNER
101 MINUTES 21
8MM Directed by Joel Schumacher 1999 Tom Welles, private eye, is hired by a wealthy widow, whose well-known husband passed away recently. She has found a reel of S8-film in a safe. On the film is a cruel slaughtering of a young girl, who obviously does not pretend or act: A snuff-movie. Welles takes up investigation, which leads him to the girl’s mother and
from there to Hollywood, into the office of a porn flick producer. Welles’ rising obsession to solve the case also carries him away from his wife and new-born daughter. But when finally names are at hand, Welles suddenly finds himself on ice much thinner than he planned. Julian Reischl IMDB
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OUT OF 248 REVIEWS
[R]
“I have always loved this film since the first time I saw it. It’s creepy as all get out, and well acted. No one ever recognized this as the amazing psychological thriller that it is.”
“So-so, very gory, not for the squeamish viewer. Very violent (of the sadistic kind). Motivation of main character not fully explained. Biggest strength is strong cast.”
PERSPECTIVES BRENT9286
MARY K. FRAZIER-KOONTZ
123 MINUTES 23
OCEAN’S ELEVEN Directed by Steven Soderbergh 2001 When Daniel Ocean is released from prison in New Jersey, his next heist is already planned. Danny’s target are three Las Vegas casinos: The Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand. They all belong to ruthless entrepreneur Terry Benedict, who, by the way, also shows a certain interest in Danny’s beautiful ex-wife Tess. During a much-anticipated boxing event (Lennox Lewis vs. Wladimir Klitschko), there will be $150 million in the safe, 70 yards below the strip. So, Danny starts to hire professionals from all over the country: There’s the card magician Rusty Ryan, the perfect pickpocket Linus Caldwell and the ingenious pyrotechnician Basher Tarr. Reuben Tishkoff, who lost a casino to Benedict, provides funding, the brothers
Virgil and Turk Malloy will drive and help, and Frank Catton, a professional card dealer, gets a job at the casino to watch the routines. Saul Bloom, already retired, will play the rich heavy weaponry dealer and live in the hotel, while Livingston Dell bugs the place to have a look over the shoulders of the security personnel. Finally, the chinese acrobat artist Yen will be the one to move inside the safe before the motion detectors are turned off. There are three rules to be followed: First: no blood. Second: Rob only who deserves it. Third: Do it as if you have nothing to lose. When the day of the boxing event finally draws near, all is set, and Benedict doesn’t have a clue or does he? Julian Reischl IMDB
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OUT OF 842 REVIEWS
[PG-13]
“What’s not to love about this movie. It has very high production value, a great story and George Clooney and Brad Pitt!”
“Great actors, great plot, great movie I love the surprises throughout. love the whole series. Wish they would make more like this.”
PERSPECTIVES TIM
CARA DEMU
117 MINUTES 25
15 MINUTES Directed by John Herzfeld 2001 When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and
make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show “Top Story.� Jeff Cross IMDB
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OUT OF 112 REVIEWS
[R]
“Love these versions of films and buy whenever possible. This one is a goody. DeNiro doing his best work, as always. Will continue to collect his works.”
“This movie was awful.”
PERSPECTIVES AVALON
MISSY “AZ_DREAMER”
120 MINUTES 27
THE NEUTRAL CHOICE
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This is a trying, depressing operation, but one liable to produce pleasant surprises, such as coming upon a book you had forgotten because you could no longer see it and which, putting off until tomorrow what you won’t do today, you finally re-devour lying face down on your bed.
2.1. Ways of arranging books ordered alphabetically ordered by continent or country *A famously pompous, highminded nineteenth-century scholar and writer, unlikely to have appealed to GP. ordered by colour ordered by date of acquisition ordered by date of publication ordered by format ordered by genre ordered by major periods of literary history ordered by language ordered by priority for future reading ordered by binding ordered by series None of these classifications is satisfactory by itself. In practice, every library is ordered starting from a combination of these modes of classification, whose relative weighting, resistance to change, obsolescence and persistence give every library a unique personality. We should first of all distinguish stable classifications from provisional ones. Stable classifications are those which, in principle, you continue to respect; provisional classifications are those supposed to last only a few days, the time it takes for a book to discover, or rediscover, its definitive place. This may be a book recently acquired and not yet read, or else a book recently read that you don’t quite know where to place and which you have promised yourself you will put away on the occasion of a forth- coming ‘great arranging’, or else a book whose reading has been interrupted and that you don’t
want to classify before taking it up again and finishing it, or else a book you have used constantly over a given period, or else a book you have taken down to look up a piece of information or a reference and which you haven’t yet put back in its place, or else a book that you can’t put back in its rightful place because it doesn’t belong to you and you’ve several times promised to give it back, etc. In my own case, nearly three-quarters of my books have never really been classified. Those that are not arranged in a definitively provisional way are arranged in a provisionally definitive way, as at the OuLiPo. Meanwhile, I move them from one room to another, one shelf to another, one pile to another, and may spend three hours looking for a book without finding it but sometimes having the satisfaction of coming upon six or seven others which serve my purpose just as well.
2.2. Books very easy to arrange The big Jules Vernes in the red binding, very large books, very small ones, Baedekers, rare books or ones presumed to be so, hardbacks, volumes in the Pléiade collection, the Présence du Futur series, novels published by the Editions de Minuit, collec- tions, journals of which you possess at least three issues, etc.
2.3. Books not too difficult to arrange Books on the cinema, whether essays on directors, albums of movie stars or shooting scripts, South American novels, ethnology, psychoanalysis, cookery books (see above), directories (next to the phone), German Romantics, books in the Que Sais-je?
series (the problem being whether to arrange them all together or with the discipline they deal with), etc.
2.4. Books just about impossible to arrange the rest for example, journals of which you possess only a single issue, or else La Campagne de 1812 en Russie by Clausewitz, translated from the German by M. Bégouën, CaptainCommandant in the 31st Dragoons, Passed Staff College, with one map, Paris, Librairie Militaire R. Chapelot et Cie, 1900; or else fascicule 6 of Volume 91 (November 1976) of the Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA) giving the programme for the 666 working sessions of the annual congress of the said Association.
2.5 Like the librarians of Babel in Borges’s story, who are looking for the book that will provide them with the key to all the others, we oscillate between the illusion of perfection and the vertigo of the unattainable. In the name of completeness, we would like to believe that a unique order exists that would enable us to accede in knowledge all in one go; in the name of the unattainable, we would like to think that order and disorder are in fact the same word, denoting pure chance. It’s possible also that both are decoys, illusions intended to disguise the erosion of both books and systems. It is no bad thing in any case that between the two our bookshelves should serve from time to time as joggers of the memory, as cat-rests and as lumber-rooms.
OUT OF 280 REVIEWS
[PG-13]
“i like this movie its very mysterious and somewhat weird but i like movies like that its all good too.”
“Because all of us knows that we are not alone on this Universe...just the majoring don’t want to accept and the people who knows the true,are quite and don’t want to reveal to the world that we have them inside our Planet.”
PERSPECTIVES MARY GIBSON
98 MINUTES 30
JOEL DELGADO
THE FOURTH KIND Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi 2009 In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. Modern-day, Alaska, where-mysteriously since the 1960s-a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI
investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Here in this remote region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented. The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of multiple witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by alien figures all share disturbingly identical details, the validity of which is investigated throughout the film. Anonymous IMDB
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OUT OF 1164 REVIEWS
[PG-13]
“Action, adventure, humor, and love...its the perfect way to spend the afternoon with your family...this movie is filled with fun and excitement”
“Classic Willis and classic Oldman as the baddy. Great story with lots of humour that doesnt distract. Brion James in support as well as a few other familiar faces. Mila, she is HOTand kicks arse.”
PERSPECTIVES TARA
ANDY “THE LONEGUNMEN”
126 MINUTES 32
THE FIFTH ELEMENT Directed by Luc Besson 1997 There are cycles in the Universe when great evil threatens all life in the Universe. The Ultimate weapon against evil, devised long ago, is called “The Fifth Element”, stored on Earth for safekeeping. When a Professor discovered it in the 1910’s, he found it very astonishing. However, a group of beings known as the Monascheiwans came to Earth to take the fifth element to utilize it for their own well-being, promising to return it in time for the next cycle. In the distant future of the 2200’s, the Earth is a very different place, yet much the same... People smoke, break laws, make messes. In the megalopolis of New York, a former elite commando named Korban Dallas is now a taxi driver. As the Monascheiwans
were returning the Fifth Element to Earth to fend of the rising evil, they are destroyed by a ruthless race of beings known as Mangalores. Discovered in the remains of the Monascheiwans’ ship, is a remnant of the Fifth Element, from which they re-create “the perfect being”, The Fifth Element, named “Leeloo”, who drops in on Korban Dallas in his cab... literally. Dallas keeps her free from government control and brings her to a priest named Vito Cornillius, who, seeing the coming Evil in the prophecies, is attempting to find the Elemental Stones needed to power the Fifth Element. He is getting in the way of a ruthless businessman named Zorg, who is already operating under the sway of Evil. John Wiggins IMDB
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OUT OF 806 REVIEWS
[R]
“This was a great suspense movie. One of the best roles I’ve seen Brad Pitt play. He is a great actor!”
“they just don’t make movies like this anymore. It isn’t necessary to use gore to scare a person. It is ok to leave some things to the imagination. Sometimes that’s even scarier. Seven is brilliant.”
PERSPECTIVES BONNY JACKSON
127 MINUTES 34
PHILLIP BAUER
SE7EN Directed by David Fincher 1995 A film about two homicide detectives’ desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world’s ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic “John Doe” sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes
first and the murderer’s terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer’s modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer. Mark Fleetwood IMDB
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OUT OF 769 REVIEWS
[R]
“It was a good movie, I like Johnny Depp and look for movies he stars in, this was a weird movie but, I enjoyed it.”
“This is a solid movie starring Johnny Depp. It’s a fun and interesting movie to watch. I would recommend this show to anyone who’s into Sci Fi Mystery Thriller movies.”
PERSPECTIVES C. SALAZAR “COLLEEN”
134 MINUTES 36
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THE NINTH GATE Directed by Roman Polanski 2000 In New York, the money-driven dealer Dean Corso is a rare-books expert and partner of Bernie, who owns a bookstore. He is contacted by the renowned collector of books about the devil Boris Balkan, who has just acquired the rare The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows from the collector Andrew Telfer, to verify whether his book is authentic or a forgery. Balkan explains that the book was written by the writer Aristide Torchia, in 1666, with Lucifer and he was burned at the stake with his entire work. There are only three exemplars of The Nine Gates and in accordance with the legend, its nine engravings form a riddle to conjure the devil. The skeptical Corso accepts the assignment and has to flight to Sintra, Portugal, and Paris, France, to contact the owners Victor Fargas and Baroness Kessler
and find the genuine exemplar for Balkan. Meanwhile, he asks Bernie to hide the rare book. Before traveling to Europe, the widow Liana Telfer wants to retrieve the book and has sex with Corso, but he does not accept her offer. When Corso goes Bernie’s bookstore, he finds his friend murdered in the same position of an engraving. Corso travels to Toledo, Spain, to meet the Ceniza twin brothers and learn more about The Nine Gates. During his journey in Europe, Corso is pursued by Liana and her bodyguard, who belong to the sect The Order of the Silver Serpents, and is protected by a mysterious Girl with supernatural powers. Meanwhile, the owners of the two other exemplars of The Nine Gates are murdered. Corso becomes obsessed with the book and discloses the truth about it. Claudio Carvalho IMDB
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OUT OF 436 REVIEWS
[R]
“another ode to teenaged suburban angst, but its done really well, and you believe them. still, its got nothing new to add. but, oh my, there IS brady corbet at age 14, and THAT is a sight worth seeing.”
“because it is great, & everyone should watch this movie. I didn’t dislike anything. perfect movie. great, great, great, awesome.”
PERSPECTIVES JADE
JONATHAN LAPIN “FLETCHER RABBIT”
100 MINUTES 38
THIRTEEN Directed by Catherine Hardwicke 2003 At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom’s boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in school,
Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends. Miss Kittin IMDB
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OUT OF 285 REVIEWS
[R]
“This movie was absolutely amazing. The way the story was told was very much how it happened. NBC Has a great documentary with Aaron Ralston that tells even more.”
“A big test in life and never to give up. If your arm is not letting you continue, just cut it off!!”
PERSPECTIVES ALISON DEACON
94 MINUTES 40
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127 HOURS Directed by Danny Boyle 2010 Outdoor adventurist Aron Ralston believes he’s invincible and can do it all alone while on his outdoor adventures. He considers the great outdoors his second home. On Saturday, April 26, 2003, Aron has gone for an adventure trek alone through the generally secluded Blue John Canyon, and like he has done on many of his other treks, he has not told anyone where he is going. But on this day, he and a small boulder fall down a crevice, he landing near the bottom of the crevice virtually unharmed, but with his right hand wedged between the boulder and the crevice wall. He has access to his gear and his small supply of rations as he tries to move the boulder or chip away at it so that he can get his wedged hand free. As either task seems impossible, he hopes for someone to rescue him. Those most likely candidates are
Kristi and Megan, two women he met earlier that day who are the only two who know that he is in the canyon, or his boss Brion, who may list him as missing if he doesn’t show up for his scheduled work time on Tuesday (three days away). As time goes on and he deals not only with the boulder and lack of rations but also with the extreme weather conditions, he begins to think about his mortality, his mind often going toward his loving but somewhat distant relationship with his family, or his last broken love with a woman named Rana. As he films himself (as a goodbye message to his family) often with his mind wandering, he, during his more lucid moments, also thinks about the possibility of trying to sever his arm as he will lose it anyway if he survives this ordeal. Huggo IMDB
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“Awesome movie! I love John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson!!! A great story.... it really takes you on an adventure! Kinda scary..”
“This movie is awesome!! I was blown away by it and have watched it three times, extended and theater version. I wish more movies like this were made. This is a must own for any movie collection.”
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1408 Directed by Mikael Hafstrom 2007 The cynical and skeptical writer Mike Enslin writes books evaluating supernatural phenomena in hotels, graveyards and other haunted places, usually debunking the mystery. While writing his latest book, he travels from Los Angeles to New York to spend one night in the Dolphin Hotel’s evil room 1408, which is permanently unavailable for guests. The reluctant manager Mr. Gerald Olin objects to his
request and offers an upgrade, expensive booze and finally relates the death of more than fifty guests over decades in the cursed room. However Mike threatens Mr. Olin, promising to sue the hotel, and is finally allowed to check into the room. Later in the night, he finds that guests of room 1408, once they have checked in, might never leave the room alive. Claudio Carvalho IMDB
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