Saturday, January 20, 2007

THE APARTMENT


THIS BILLY WILDER FILM,IS A SIMPLE NARRATIVE OF A SWEET, GUY BAXTER,PLAYED BY JACK LEMMON. MOST OF THE BILLY WILDER'S FILM REFLECT THE VULNERABLE SIDE OF A CHARACTER, WHERE HE ALWAYS SACRIFICES HIS SELF TO SURVIVE. IN CASE OF SUNSET BOULEVARD THE STRUGGLING WRITER BECAME THE KEEP OF A YESTERYEARS ACTRESS, IN THE APARTMENT C.C.BAXTER LENDS HIS APARTMENT TO THE SENIOR COLLEAGUES TO BE USED FOR THEIR PLEASURE, THE FILM REFLECTS HIS SUFFERING EVERYTIME HE LENDS THE APARTMENT, HE HAS TO SPEND THE NIGHT OUT, OR GIVE UP HIS PRIVACY. BUT THEN HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH ONE OF THE GIRL'S[SHERLY MACLAINE] WITH WHOM THE BIG BOSS IS SLEEPING WITH, AND HE IS WITH HER ALL THE WAY. RELATIONSHIP GROWS AND THE GIRL REALISES THAT JOH N IS THE REAL MAN, THE TRUE GUY, SHE SHOULD GO FOR.

PLUS

AMAZING CHARACTERIZATIONS

VERY GOOD PERFORMANCE BY BAXTER

BILLY WILDER FILM


THE FILM REFLECTS THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE, THOSE WHO TAKE AND THOSE WHO GET TAKEN!!

AMERICAN PSYCHO


THIS FILM DIRECTED BY MARY HARRON,WAS RELEASED IN THE YEAR 2000.

INSHORT, THE FILM IS ABOUT A 27 YEAR OLD PATRICK BATEMAN, PLAYED BY CHRISTIAN BALE. THE FILM APLTY DEALS ABOUT THE PYCHE OF A STRANGE,ECCENTRIC,INACCESIBLE COMPETITIVE,GUY WORKING FOR MERGES AND AQUISITIONS AT P AND P, WHERE HE IS A VICE PRESIDENT. HE JUST WANTS TO 'FIT IN' AS HE SAYS TO HIS FIANCEE, PLAYED BY REESE WITHERSPOON, BECUASE OF WHICH HE HAS NO TIME FOR ANYTHING ELSE.HE IS A TYPICAL PERSON WHO IS AMBITIOUS AND WANTS TO BE BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE AROUND HIM. IFACT, HE CAN'T TAKE ANYONE TO HAVE EVEN A BETTER 'BUSINESS CARD' THAN HIM. HIS INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS SECRETARY TO WEAR SKIRTS, AND HIGH HEELS, SOMTHING WHICH HE LIKES SHOWS THE CHARACTER DESPERATELY WANTING TO RULE, BE A CONTROL FREAK OF NOT JUST HIS LIFE BUT OTHERS AS WELL.AS THE STORY GROWS IT SHAKES YOU UP BECAUSE HE KEEPS GOING INSANE TO SUPER INSANE, AND BY THE TIME HE CONFESSES HIS CRIME, HE HAS ALREADY MURDERED NUMEROUS PEOPLE FROM WHORES, TO HIS COLLEAGUES WHOM HE DISLIKES, TO STREET BEGGARS WHO DON'T MATCH UP TO HIM TO OLD WOMEN WHO HAVE LESSS POWER THAN HIM. THW TWIST IS THAT ALL THESE MURDERS REFLECT A STATE OF HIS MIND, AND ARE JUST A FIGMENT OF HIS IMAGINATION, BUT BY THE TIME YOU ARE ALREADY QUITE SHAKEN UP WITH THE BLOOD AND GORE, AND THINKING ABOUT WHAT IF IT WAS REAL

PLUSES


THE NARRATIVE IS VERY TIGHT AND KEEPS YOU ON YOUR TOES WITH A FEW SQUEAKS, MOUTH OPEN AND EYES SHUTTING INSTANCES.

ITS A VERY WELL DIRECTED FILM.

ONE OF THE GORY FILMS, DIRECTED BY A WOMAN DIRECTOR, WHO GENERALLY GO FOR ROMANTIC AND CHO CHWEET MOVIES, THE FILM CHALLENGES THAT

ITS IN YOUR FACE, AND MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE WE MIGHT ALREADY HAVE STEPPED IN

GO WATCH IT, BUT ITS ONLY FOR THE ADULTS AND DEF NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED.