Fok! Movie Trivia 2006 - Juli IV

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Op vrijdag 14 juli 2006 21:09 schreef Asskicker14 het volgende:
Een van mijn favoriete films van 2006

Munich, Eric Bana en Geoffrey Rush uiteraard!

and....back to my movie

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When someone on a trip starts to wig out, you take them someplace quiet and talk soothingly and assure them that everything's going to be OK. But as the tagline of this film makes clear, for these characters everything is most definitely NOT going to be OK.

For those who haven't read the book, it's important to know what you're getting into. wrote this novel as a way of telling the story of how he and his friends in the early '70s damaged and destroyed themselves with drugs. He tells this story within the framework of a surreal science fiction thriller, but many of the scenes are straight from his own experiences with the unpleasant consequences of people using drugs and disintegrating mentally.

This film does an amazing job of capturing the feel and tone of the book as well as the paranoia, perceptual distortions, and chaos of hallucinogenic overindulgence. Add to that a story that only gradually emerges from the madness, but by the end brings in a lot of heavy ideas such as the existence of free will, whether ends justify means, etc. There is a sense of consequence to what happens in the film, a sense of despair at what has been lost. So this story of drug-addled losers becomes the story of the human struggle for identity and meaning.

I have a couple of minor quibbles regarding scenes from the book that only partially made the cut (no explanation for the significance of "If I'd known it was harmless I would have killed it myself, no little kid to explain how 6 and 3 gears means 18 speeds). Still, most adaptations of stories take a few basic ideas and try to shape them into more conventional films that fit into established genres. Even when it works, such as with Blade Runner or Total Recall, it's not really . Not so this film. This is in all his dark and perverse and deeply thoughtful glory.

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Op vrijdag 14 juli 2006 22:29 schreef victorinox het volgende:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

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Op vrijdag 14 juli 2006 22:34 schreef wyccie het volgende:
Trainspotting

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Op vrijdag 14 juli 2006 22:37 schreef cwk het volgende:
is de film jaren 90 gemaakt?

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This most faithful rendition on film of a story (of eight so far) is both 's homage to and 's homage to himself, his wife, and his friends who were brought down by drugs. Sporting a fine cast whose members themselves have excellent drug credentials, " " moves from the sheer wonder or tsk-tsking of tales like Jonas Åkerlund's "Spun" or Arnovsky's "Requiem for a Dream" toward the supply-demand-punishment nexus relentlessly limned by William S. Burroughs.

Burroughs' sexually outrageous phantasmagorias have seemed unfilmable, though Cronenberg gave "Naked Lunch" a good try; but his ideas are clear: the future moves toward totalitarianism, and drugs are an excellent way of controlling masses of people. If they're addicted, they're your slaves; you've got their minds, and you've got their money. If you've got them hooked on something illegal, you've got a nation of outlaws, and hence a police state. But as Burroughs said, it's covert -- though America's huge prison population is increasingly visible. The world becomes one big sting operation. In " ," the rulers conceal and rip up identities at will and in the end nobody's safe, but everybody's too wacked-out to care. Except we care, and the movie is trippy, funny -- but also sad.

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Op zaterdag 15 juli 2006 10:41 schreef cwk het volgende:
Oh V for vendetta natuurlijk

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Op zaterdag 15 juli 2006 10:40 schreef cwk het volgende:
testje

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Wat een tyfus moeite is zon tabel.

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Op zondag 16 juli 2006 21:04 schreef Asskicker14 het volgende:
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