tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8436306896448667918.post8044979490731547681..comments2023-11-02T15:17:56.793+00:00Comments on THIS IS A TROLL FREE ZONE: I wouldn't so much say it's 'Shutter Island' as Shutter ShedThat's not my name!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17064348309163649672noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8436306896448667918.post-87388836920162371572010-11-10T20:33:24.932+00:002010-11-10T20:33:24.932+00:00'The Reader' is an excellent movie , it ...'The Reader' is an excellent movie , it mixes stolen forbidden love and the trial of a murdering fascist to emotionally , morally, and legally question personal and collective responsibility and the human need for, nature and limits of reconciliation . It's disturbing to watch because the viewer is drawn into sympathising with a monster who, by the end of the movie is unmasked for who she really is - most of us under the wrong circumstances. <br /><br />The film 'Sophie Scholl - the Final Days ' based on transcripts from 21 year old Sophie's trial offers a pretty fucking bleak insight into the mass appeal of conformity and social amnesia . Sophie , her brother Hans and their friends were caught distributing leaflets of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance movement at the University of Munich . <br /><br />Hans took full responsibility to spare his sister but Sophie refused to let him carry the can and readilly admitted her responsibility for distributing the anti-Nazi leaflets insisting it was her moral duty to resist the Nazis and denounce their crimes against humanity. Her defiance enraged the regime. The Scholl's and their friends were subjected to speedy apublic showtrial , found guilty and beheaded by the Nazis . <br /><br /><b>"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience." </b>Normnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8436306896448667918.post-46407325642140477612010-11-10T09:51:21.162+00:002010-11-10T09:51:21.162+00:00Have still to watch 'The Reader', Norm. G...Have still to watch 'The Reader', Norm. Got to pick my moment lols<br /><br />I have to ask why Sue Baker would decide that a shrink is the best person (make that type of person) to be picked to talk about stigma in in the cinema. I think it would have been better if'Time for Change' asked people who are directly affected by it to comment or did a consensus, gathering views across the board. Would certainly be more reflective, I think.<br /><br />Back to Shutter Island, I am still trying to work out how Leonardo's character could speak fluent German...or whether that was just part of his delusion. <br /><br />Also I think his character showed quite a bit of compassion. Which, if I read the film properly, wasn't given any credence, by the head shrink, when he made the final decison.<br /><br />As for him not being there for his wife. I have Bipolar and am acutely aware that people have made concious decisions to keep away from me because of my illness. This was obviously specifically focussing on him but what about her? He kept away cos he couldn't handle her but it seemed that everyone else did as well and ultimately it ended in tragedy for their children, her and him. <br /><br />There is only so much time in a film to get all the relevant stuff in but a film that looks at mental illness and isolation in more depth would be a good thing. If people want to really tackle prejudice then they need to be alot more honest about it's causes and more so people's fear of mental illness and dealing with people who have it...and I am talking as much about people who work for the government and in care services as I am the public at large.That's not my name!https://www.blogger.com/profile/17064348309163649672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8436306896448667918.post-79666654108216019422010-11-10T03:44:33.376+00:002010-11-10T03:44:33.376+00:00oops Blogger just told me comment had too many cha...oops Blogger just told me comment had too many characters so sorry if its posted twice or scrambledNormnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8436306896448667918.post-59150142273869584312010-11-10T03:35:40.109+00:002010-11-10T03:35:40.109+00:00Can't believe so many of the critics panned &...Can't believe so many of the critics panned 'Shutter Island ' as it's a great movie that has a vintage Hitchcock feel to it. It's not really a modern film and from outset it's cinematically dense and symbolically loaded and if you can genuinely suspend belief - and it seems a lot of the pro reviewers couldn't or wouldn't - the clichéd ' seekers marooned at asylum/haunted house in violent storm' storyline fragments and gradually reveals a deeper and more harrowing internal narrative, logic and mythology that was challenging enough anyway to keep me ruminating over what the movie is actually about long after the final credits rolled. Maybe I'm just slow and stupid lol. <br /><br />To me it's a Greek tragedy that explores the dark places beyond good and bad and right and wrong and I share your take on the ending Manders but I'm still mentally screening the movie backwards for insights .<br /><br />I thought DiCaprio stormed his part too, last movie I saw him in was Revolutionary Road, which also touched on strong mental health themes only he played such a deliberately passive wooden character in that film as all the drama, violence and tragedy is invested in the questions an intense young man with schizophrenia raises about suburban reality and , ultimately Kate Winslet's character who gets driven over the edge because nothing actually happens in her life. Two films to watch back to back there , definitely.<br /><br />Wonder what Sue Baker of Time to Change would make of these two films as her org paid some shrink to draw up a history of stigma in cinema . Baker and her clones would definitely be raving over the storytelling aspect but like you I also think the role of the institution , its dark past and control over Di Caprio 's character is pretty fucking morally challenged too as what Andrew Laeddis finally does is make the only free and certain conscious choice he can . Baker would rather be funded for making decisions on our behalf. There's a cultural literalness about these people that gives me the creeps. They're dangerous as they've assumed the power of the institution and it's like no-one's noticed because our word counts for so little unless its mouthed through them.Normnoreply@blogger.com