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Culture Notes: Desert Island Films (part 1)

Posted by Dain, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:53 AM (Eastern)

Since I did a top ten book list, I thought I ought to extend it to movies as well, though I'm not much of a film buff. My choices tend to be random, but if they have anything in common, they tend to be visually arresting with witty dialogue, and very often, a surprise ending. Since videos are heavy on bandwidth, I won't list all ten at once. In no particular order...

Cinema Paradiso (1989) is not a movie that is uploaded in full, so I have only embedded this clip from the end. It is about a little boy growing up in films, and the local projectionist who becomes a father to him. One of the running gags in the film is that the Church censors any kiss scene, and when the boy returns home as a big, middled-aged successful director for the funeral, he finds a reel has been left to him by his foster father, which he watches in this clip. This movie makes me sad. I used to watch it with my mother as a kid. She named my sister after Elena, in this movie. It is very romantic, very sentimental, very Italian.

Fight Club (1999) could not be more different, but it is also a cult classic in its own right. It airs out practically every discontentment and frustration one feels at modern society (consumerism is its especial target), and it is really very funny, in the darkest way possible: "Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct." As the title implies, there is quite a lot of violence. Edward Norton is simply my favorite actor (though Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter aren't bad, either).

I know what you are thinking, an anime children's film? No, but, Princess Mononoke is really, really good. Nobody has blue hair or enormous boobs and to use a word I rather hate, it is not too "kawaii". There are many things to admire about Miyazaki: his strong principles about the environment (a theme in most of his films), his admiration of women as strong heroic figures, and his ability to understand how justice is so very, very complicated in this world. There is no black-and-white good vs. evil binary, such as in Harry Potter, as in real life, people are complicated. (Nausicäa is really my favorite, but I think Mononoke is more universally enjoyable.)

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