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Disgrace

Africa 11:40:00
It's really difficult sometimes to distinguish a victim from a villain. You're not so much of a criminal when your status changes, when there is money involved, when you accomplish something in your life, when you have a career to lose or when you live in a civilized country as a representative of its civilized society. It seems, then, that using someone less...
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Twins/Junior

brothers 10:22:00
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There was once a pair of unbelievably different characters who could cooperate surprisingly well together. One: short, funny and witty. The other one: tall, muscular and naive. This duo starred in two films, which fell into the history of entertainment, making it difficult for anybody to repeat the act. Let's imagine a medical experiment, which in some ways got wrong and produced a...
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Mandela:Long Walk to Freedom

Africa 09:48:00
Racial inequality hasn't disappeared overnight. It was a long process and it required years of suppressed anger, the outbursts of which changed the ways of things. It was hard to oppose the ruling power, it was life-threatening to act according to one's conscience and against the norms. It also took years and unity to build a reasonable and consequent front against inequality, discrimination,...
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August: Osage County

Benedict Cumberbatch 07:54:00
Families. We usually look better together in the pictures if we look good at all. Try to have a family business and you will feel deceived, robbed and used by your sweet, reliable relatives. Try to have any kind of relationship and you are going to be judged: a younger man? an older woman? a different religion? God forbid, a different race! All...
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Amélie

art 05:28:00
Imagine, there are over 7 billion people in the world, each and everyone has a story to tell, having experienced pain and limited by inhibitions of fear, whether it is a fear of the past, people in general, travel or forming a relationship. Sometimes you need a piece of magic to take individuals out of their comfort zones and push them beyond their...
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Thelma & Louise

Brad Pitt 23:38:00
Sometimes you just have had enough. Your husband mistreats you, you're tired of being a slave for your family. That's it. You've had it up to here. Being born a woman always meant that you're being somewhat abused: by your partner, by all those guys in the street who treat you as a piece of meat, by years of lower salaries and infuriatingly...
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The Nanny Diaries/Spanglish

children 02:47:00
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Having the best of all worlds doesn't always guarantee the best life. Having money, access to the most prestigious schools, expensive fashionable clothes, and gourmet restaurant food does not mean that you are a better parent, a better partner and a better person. Wealth taught us to reevaluate things. To perceive ourselves better than others and to have a lifestyle which is just...
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3 coeurs/Three Hearts

Charlotte Gainsbourg 04:49:00
Do you believe in fate? Were you in the right place at the right time to get a job, find the love of your life or win the lottery ticket? Or maybe there were circumstances which prevented you from receiving what should be rightly yours in the first place? Have you missed something in life? Was it a date that you weren't able...
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Kika

fathers&sons 06:50:00
The problem with serial killers, rapists and robbers is that they can be someone you love and trust, they may be your friend's relative and they might actually pop up in your house whenever they want, making you the victim of circumstances. Be careful. Look around. Add sounds, notes, and coincidences. Put all the little insignificant pieces to the puzzle and discover who...
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Leaving Las Vegas

alcoholism 03:27:00
Sometimes you cannot fall any lower. In the hierarchy of social downfall, there are states that place you in a total moral degeneration. Alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution, homelessness. Do you hit rock bottom to jump back to rescue yourself? Or do you fall, slowly deteriorating into the abyss of darkness and pain? Can two people: an alcoholic with the blind aim of killing...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock/ The Falling

Australia 00:30:00
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Schools for girls seem to follow a very similar pattern. Institutions are run by women who have long forgotten that they were girls themselves. There are inspiring and friendly teachers and teachers who want to follow the rules of conduct. Girls want to have fun, dream about a great love story, are passionate about poetry and music. In this environment of innocence and...
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21 Grams

accident 01:54:00
You would never expect to end up as a drug addict, in prison or homeless. You would never expect that you will contribute to someone's death, whether by accident or not. This is not you, it doesn't concern you, it will not be your future. As a child, you were always for the pretty princesses and happy endings. You would never picture yourself...
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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.