Feb-19-2011, 12:55 PM (UTC)
I seem to be going through a lot of movies lately, especially ones from the 80s...
Last movies I watched were: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and The Last Emperor.
Ferris and Breakfast Club are really well done films that tell the perspectives of adolescents/young adults. They make pretty good points about how adults seem to lose touch of how they once were when they were young and the idealism that once existed, only to end up being hypocrites who try to squash that same sense of idealism in the next generation. A most strange, yet all-too-common, human phenomenon. Both films are very funny, witty, and poignant.
It seems there were a lot of coming of age films in the 80s featuring rich/middle-class white angsty teenagers and I'm very interested in knowing why there was such a trend. On the other hand, it seems today's the angsty white teenagers are all vampires that don't have any character development (if only sociology/humanities were "practical" majors to study! :rolleyes:.) Also the sheer number of highly marketed rehashes have left me kind of disillusioned with more recent films.
The Last Emperor has the most beautiful cinematography (the sets and costumes are gorgeous) and score. A masterly crafted dramatization of Pu Yi's life as well as the fascinating time period it took place in. The movie's sparked my interest in reading his autobiography, his tutor's memoirs, as well as anything else pertaining to China/Japan during the war.
Ugh, too much information to research-- too little time to digest it all
Last movies I watched were: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and The Last Emperor.
Ferris and Breakfast Club are really well done films that tell the perspectives of adolescents/young adults. They make pretty good points about how adults seem to lose touch of how they once were when they were young and the idealism that once existed, only to end up being hypocrites who try to squash that same sense of idealism in the next generation. A most strange, yet all-too-common, human phenomenon. Both films are very funny, witty, and poignant.
It seems there were a lot of coming of age films in the 80s featuring rich/middle-class white angsty teenagers and I'm very interested in knowing why there was such a trend. On the other hand, it seems today's the angsty white teenagers are all vampires that don't have any character development (if only sociology/humanities were "practical" majors to study! :rolleyes:.) Also the sheer number of highly marketed rehashes have left me kind of disillusioned with more recent films.
The Last Emperor has the most beautiful cinematography (the sets and costumes are gorgeous) and score. A masterly crafted dramatization of Pu Yi's life as well as the fascinating time period it took place in. The movie's sparked my interest in reading his autobiography, his tutor's memoirs, as well as anything else pertaining to China/Japan during the war.
Ugh, too much information to research-- too little time to digest it all
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