Good day dear readers !
Today, I really want to introduce you 2 wonderful movies I have seen recently and really recommend to you.
Black Swan:
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Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side – a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.
The director is Darren Aronofsky who made PI (nice that one), Requiem for a Dream, The fountain, The Wrestler, and recently Black Swan.
This film is so beautiful by perfect images, camera movement around the dancers, feelings and emotions shared between the white and the black swan, keeping the audience in stressful atmosphere, acting managed perfectly by Nathalie and Vincent and the scenario.
You have to absolutely see this movie in a good quality, on a big screen with great sound to send you deeply on this emotional movie.
The Constant Gardener (2004):
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Justin Quayle, a British diplomat in Nairobi, is told that his activist wife, Tessa, was killed while traveling with a doctor friend in a desolate region of Africa. Investigating on his own, Quayle discovers that her murder, reportedly done by her friend, may have had more sinister roots.
Justin learns that Tessa uncovered a corporate scandal involving Medical Experimentation in Africa. KVH (Karel Vita Hudson), a large pharmaceutical company working under the cover of AIDS tests and treatments, is testing a tuberculosis drug that has severe side effects. Rather than help the test trial subjects and begin again with new medicine, KVH covered up the side effects reported in the tests, and only improved the drug in anticipation of a massive, multi-resistant tuberculosis outbreak.
Justin travels the world, often under assumed identities, in order to reconstruct the circumstances leading to Tessa’s murder. As he begins to piece together Tessa’s final report on the fraudulent drug tests, he learns that the roots of the conspiracy stretch further than he could have imagined; to a German pharmawatch NGO, an African aid station, and most disturbingly to him, corrupt politicians in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
John le Carré writes in the book’s afterword: ‘by comparison with the reality, my story is as tame as a holiday postcard’. The book is dedicated to Yvette Pierpaoli, a French activist who died during the course of her aid work.
This movie allows you to travel directly in Kenya (some stage are directly shooting with local people, where they directly live) with a particular realism dimension. I was so nostalgic when I have seen this movie, the Africa picture is so real and the images so beautiful.
Then, the topic of the subject is around the hypocrisy and the cynic of pharmaceutical company, the sad really that the importance of the life is considered different where you live/from, the corruption, the need a big smash to open your eye, the African soul.
Ce documentaire réalisé par Charles Ferguson dévoile une vue realiste du monde de la finance américaine en décrivant les différents acteurs, les credits defaults swap, l’omnipotence des institutions financières sur le pouvoir politique et éducatif (clin d’oeil au président grecque et italien actuellement non élu par le peuple et ayant travaillés préalablement pour la Goldman Sachs).
