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Rush (2013)
Thrilling!
It was only yesterday that I went to see this film in the cinema, and with no regrets. I hadn't seen the trailer, I only knew that it was a film about F1 drivers, but I didn't know anything about the drivers or F1. From the first minutes of the film I was hooked. It's simply amazing.
The director, Ron Howard, tells this story with a nonlinear narrative, which gives the audience (or at least me) more of an excitement for the characters, I wanted to know what caused the rivalry between these two men. The cinematography is superb in my opinion. The setting is magnificent, the cars, the locations. He does a great job representing the era, shows its ups and downs.
As much as Ron Howard deserves a pat on the shoulder for the movie, the ones who made me feel sympathetic and excitement was the performance from the strong leading actors, Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl. Chris Hemsworth showed his impeccable talent and passion for acting, with the strong performance of James Hunt, nominations should be lining up for him. Daniel Bruhl also gave a strong performance of Niki Lauda, a unsociable rat (as said in the film).
You don't have to be a great F1 fan to favor this film, as it isn't only a film about cars, but human nature, hatred, and love. The whole film is magnificent, the beginning, middle and ending. It's thrilling car scenes and magnificent directing and acting give the film such emotion and excitement that you feel as if only half an hour has past when the film finishes.
A must watch film!!
Doodlebug (1997)
The beginning of an Auteur!
An excellent recommended short film for all film and Nolan fans!
Duddlebug is an unique short film that with only 3 minutes makes you think outside of the box. This is of course what Christopher Nolan is known for, his unique one-of-a-kind films that go beyond a normal imagination. Duddlebug is the beginning of Nolan and you can see where this idea of a dream within a dream (Inception), a journal within a journal (The Prestige) or a flashback within a flashback (Memento) comes from. In this short a man runs around chasing a bug trying to smash it with his shoe. In the end as he finally succeeds defeating the film's conflict, a man appears in the same position with the same shoe right above him ready to smash him. Above that man is another man in the same position ready to smash him, and so on. This scenes shows Christopher's Nolan's major idea that he has used in some of his films, for example: in Inception there's the dream within a dream , a journal within a journal (The Prestige) or a flashback within a flashback (Memento).