Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

There are many amazing things regarding this film. To start with, despite the fact that one may not fully grasp the film’s allegory at first, it generates so many emotions that one feels like a bucket ready to overflow. The scene of Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis – who gives one hell of a performance for a child) running holding the fireworks in her hands is one to be remembered in time to come.

From the direction’s point of view there is an entirely different, exhilarating filming approach during the opening of the movie, intensified by the background music. A feeling which continues through out being less intense but still there.

The rest of the post discusses the movie’s allegory, so you may want to skip it till you see the movie itself.

My rating: 09/10

The Firemen’s Ball (1967)

The Firemen’s Ball is an allegory filmed bi Milos Forman in 1967 which is more than contemporary in 2012.
Another (or the only?) aspect of the reasons we face a world wide financial crisis: you may see it in different scales. The outcome is the same 🙂

My rating: 10/10

On the Road (2012)

On the Road: the film conveys an intense feeling that Walter Salles, the director, is following the story from a book, more than in any other film. Even if someone has not read the homonymous book of Jack Kerouac, the concept driving the lives of the Beat generation are vividly presented.

Garrett Hedlund gives an outstanding performance as Dean Moriarty.

My rating: 07/10