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Pacific Rim

action 11:24:00
When gianormous creatures destroy your habitat, you gather your forces together. You experiment with technology, intelligence, compatibility of your peers, and human strength. You create a weapon. Every weapon is the extension of the human body: a knife: an extension of nails and hands, a spear: of an arm, a bow, gun, missile: a combination of the former with a bigger impact and...
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Promise at Dawn/ La promesse de l'aube

Charlotte Gainsbourg 02:42:00
We all have mothers. It unites us. Distant mothers, mothers who died when we were little, overprotective mothers, mothers toxic, demanding, and neglectful. Some of them shaped us, motivated and instilled values and courage. Others destroyed our relationships, family bonds, and made us give up our friends. Some mothers were for us a difficult example to follow and a role model for whom...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

friendship 03:10:00
We have a few books in our lives that we like to go back to once in a while. Maybe it was that book that told the best love story, an imitation of our personal one and a consolation in times of doubt. It could be that book which made us fall in love with traveling or cooking, turning the written word into...
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The Devil Wears Prada/ Up in the Air/ The Intern

Anne Hathaway 05:50:00
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There are three stepping stones in your professional life. One is at the beginning of your career (full of high hopes and 'I want to prove everybody wrong' drive), the second somewhere in the middle when you are finally at ease with your duties and your profession blends with your identity; and the final one, when you don't have to work anymore and...
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McQueen

documentary 02:16:00
In the beehive of personalities, predispositions, skills, and interests, we have chosen a vocation. Or maybe this vocation has chosen us. And when it is clear that even as a child you have a tendency to become a great football player, a priest or an actress, coming from a slightly less designer-oriented background may make your personal development in the world of fashion...
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Love, Simon

education 10:58:00
Looking back at your formative years, you can always see what kind of grown-up you were going to become. You tried your firsts: relationships, areas of interests, friendships which you were to cultivate or give up. Maybe already then you were bound to be a doctor, a mother of three, a hopeless womanizer, a genius, or a bread-winner for your single yuppy household....
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Return of the Hero/ Le Retour du heros

comedy 03:34:00
There's one problem with lies. While you don't have to think much when telling the truth, plotting convoluted lies can keep you on your toes. You have to keep track of all loose ends not to be revealed, you have to pay attention to facts, dates, and eye-witnesses to seem believable. But what if you have to follow someone else's lies? What if...
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Titanic

accident 12:07:00
Death at sea is sudden, unexpected, and cold. It gives time to search for the last hope of rescue but leaves people and vessels helpless when facing a force of nature. We are small among the miracles of the Earth. There were tragedies which hit headlines of newspapers and still do, despite better technology and constant development. You could die in a sinking...
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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.