Dina is a documentary film by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles as they follow an autistic couple on their approach to marriage. Dina Buno is a 48-year-old widow that lost her husband to cancer and had a violent attack by her ex-boyfriend. But Nina never shows these setbacks because of her huge self-esteem. Scott Levin works at Walmart and is very opposite of Dina. Scott has a hard time showing emotion and is always invested in his phone. Dina is a longtime family friend to Dan's family and after meeting Dan became so interested in Dina he followed her getting 600 hours of footage. We see the couple after deciding to get married and they move in together before their marriage to test out living together. Very quickly they start to notice their differences. But Dina is not a person to give up easily and we follow the character's struggle to overcome their obstacles. One of the most memorable scenes is the bachelorette and bachelor parties. Scott's version is going bowling with his friends and Dina's is a hired stripper for her and her friends. At first the idea of an autistic couple may not seem relatable. But Dina and Scott go through the same things any other couple getting married would go through. The film explores the couples wants and needs and how they can provide them for each other. The film does an extremely good job at humor. When Dina brings Scott to see the ocean for the first time she brings Scott a book about sex. This scene shows a very private moment with lot of humor. Dina finds it extremely easy to talk about this when Scott really doesn't. There are many moments like this where we might question laughing or put us in an uncomfortable spot. The filmmakers want us to laugh with the characters instead of laughing at them. Everything we see in the film seems so private but with every changing scene we want to know more about Dina and we are invested in what she is going to do next. As the documentary goes on we learn more and more about her past but the film takes there time. The filmmakers wanted us to know Dina as herself and then show how her past has affected her and possibly made her a stronger person. So the information we get makes us want Dina to succeed. Dina is a charming love story like no other that makes us think about marriage, love and overcoming our past.
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Straight Outta Compton
(2015)
If you care about rap you will enjoy Straight Outta Compton
11 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"Straight Outta Compton" is a true story directed by F Gary Gray and is about the formation of the group NWA in the late 80s and the early 90s. The movie focuses on the three main members of the group Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, and Ice Cube. And the movie shows how this group changed the way we think of music In the first part of the movie you can see some of the members writing songs and practicing on the turntable to see the passion that the members wanted to be artists. Ice Cube is played by his actual son and did a great job. All the cast actually did a great job playing a real characters. Including character played by Eazy-E played by Jason Mitchell who is asked to do most of the intense acting, and he gives a very impressive performance. The NWA and the after the NWA dissolved the artists went on to create things by themselves but I knew very little about the actual members of the NWA. This movie for being about music has a great soundtrack that shows the music of that time. I loved hearing all the music again.There are a lot of cameos from artists that would become great that we're not in the NWA including Tupac, Snoop Dog, Warren G. and Jimmy Lovine who is a major record producer. For people are age not alive during the beginning of the NWA and the Rodney King Riots this movie does a great job at showing what it meant to be in Compton at that time. The movie shows the audience that what the NWA wanted to speak the truth when rapping. But the movie never says what the members do outside of rapping is okay but shows what the group had to go through to get where they got. Some of the problems facing "Straight Outta Compton" is the truth behind some of the history behind the members can be false. The problem comes up because of Eazy-E passing he can't be there to give some of the truth and because the real Ice Cube and Dr. Dre are producers on the movie and probably wanted some of the story left out for their sake. "Straight Outta Compton" is number one at the box office as it deserves making it the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time. "Straight Outta Compton" tops the other two movies coming out the same time including the prayer based film "War Room" and the electronic music dramedy "We Are Your Friends." This movie shows what the actual people were doing. Never this movies try to show that they were good people but do show how their music has impacted modern rap.
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