the pope's toilet

They don't have bike trails. The dad always ride the bike to place to get stuff and sell it to stores. They live in a small house. They made home made sausages.

Set in Melo, a godforsaken village near the Uruguay-Brazil border, the movie tracks the misfortunes of a dirt-poor petty smuggler named Beto (César Troncoso, resembling a less-exfoliated Omar Sharif). While his neighbors ecstatically prepare for a windfall from feeding the thousands of Brazilian faithful expected to attend the papal visit — one fearless entrepreneur even takes out a bank loan to buy sausage meat — Beto’s hopes rest on the opposite end of the digestive tract. If he builds a public convenience, who wouldn’t want to spend a peso?

Written and directed by Enrique Fernández and César Charlone, “The Pope’s Toilet” uses a seamless blend of professional and nonprofessional actors to take an oblique dig at a church that, the movie suggests, may have failed its most disadvantaged followers. Both filmmakers are Uruguayan (Mr. Fernández was born in Melo), so the hardscrabble details are touchingly credible, generating a tone of profound sadness — located most affectingly in the journalism-career dreams of Beto’s teenage daughter — that Mr. Charlone’s upbeat cinematography works hard to dispel. Despite the whimsical title, this is a movie that offers little in the way of relief, for villagers and audiences alike.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/movies/08pope.html

waking ned devine

When word reaches two elderly best friends that someone in their tiny Irish village has won the national lottery, they go to great lengths to find the winner so they can share the wealth. When they discover the "lucky" winner, Ned Devine, they find he has died of shock upon discovering his win. Not wanting the money to go to waste, the village enters a pact to pretend Ned is still alive by having another man pose as him, and then to divide the money between them. Written by Alexander Lum

Jackie O'Shea, a resident of the tiny Irish coastal village of Tully More, discovers that one of his neighbors has won the lottery - the question is, who? It takes some doing, but Jackie figures out that the lucky person is none other than his new best friend, Ned Devine. Unfortunately, it turns out Ned is in no position to collect the jackpot, which totals almost 6.9 million Irish pounds. So Jackie and his real best friend, Michael O'Sullivan, try to figure out a way to share in Ned's good fortune - after all, Ned would want it that way. But things get a lot more complicated than either Jackie or Michael could have anticipated
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Tsotsi

This movie is different from my life because there was shooting and they didn't speak English. They went to a water pump to get water everday.


In Johannesburg, the small time criminal Tsotsi is a teenager without feelings, hardened by his tough life. After killing a man with his gang in a robbery; hitting the gangster Boston of his gang; humiliating a crippled beggar along one night, Tsotsi hijacks a car and under the despair of a woman, he shoots her in the stomach. While driving the car, Tsotsi finds that there is a baby on the back seat and the woman was a desperate mother. He brings the baby to his house in the slum and becomes attached to him. For six days, the baby changes his behavior, arousing and developing the sense of empathy and humanity in the cold blood kille
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The LIves Of Others

In the East Germany (DDR) of 1984, Stasi Stabshauptmann Gerd Wiesler interrogates a prisoner suspected of helping a friend defect to the West. The interrogation is intercut with Wiesler using the recording to instruct a class on methods of interrogation. He points out several ways the Stasi can extract information from suspects being interrogated, by denying them sleep and by repeatedly asking the same questions. Canned answers, he states, are a sure sign of guilt.

Wiesler's superior, Lt. Colonel Grubitz, assigns him to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman, who, true to appearance, has been a supporter of the regime. Nonetheless, Wiesler thinks he is worth watching; Grubitz disagrees. However, Grubitz willingly issues the order to secretly bug Dreyman's flat, installing numerous small microphones, when asked to do so by a powerful minister. When he notices that a neighbor had observed the work of the flat bugging, Wiesler pays the woman a visit and easily intimidates her into staying silent. In the attic above the apartment, Wiesler and another agent listen to everything that goes on there, including the most intimate affairs of the occupants, and summarize everything in their reports. The uprightness of the people living in the flat begins to undermine Wiesler's views.

Wiesler soon learns the real reason behind the Stasi's surveillance of Dreyman. A Central Committee member named Bruno Hempf covets Dreyman's live-in girlfriend, actress Christa-Maria Sieland. Dreyman's imprisonment would rid Hempf of a rival. Wiesler, an idealistic believer in the socialist regime, is disgusted by the abuse of power this represents.

Meanwhile, Sieland has been engaging in sexual relations with Minister Hempf, on whom she relies to supply her with prescription drugs to which she is addicted. She is revolted by this contact, but afraid of rejecting the advances of a man capable of completely destroying her career and her life. Due to Captain Wiesler's subtle intervention, Dreyman witnesses the minister's car dropping off Sieland, and realizes what has been going on. A week later, he implores her to end the affair. However, Sieland clearly feels she cannot take that risk. She makes the point that they are both in bed with the state in order to be allowed to continue their artistic careers. Ignoring Dreymann's pleas, Sieland leaves to meet with Hempf.

Later, at a local bar, Wiesler approaches her and, posing as a fan, says that her talent is so great that she does not need any powerful supporter. Deeply touched, Sieland informs Wiesler that he is "a good man" and departs. Later, Wiesler is pleased to learn from his Stasi fellow-eaves-dropper that Sieland immediately returned to Dreyman, promising never to see Hempf again.

Although a loyal and believing communist, Dreymann dislikes the way his blacklisted colleagues are treated by the State. Although he approaches Hempf about one such friend, stage director Albert Jerska, the minister coldly refuses to intervene in a policy that has kept Jerska from working as a director for seven years. Later, at Dreyman's birthday party, Jerska gives Dreyman the sheet music to a piece titled "Sonata for a Good Man." Shortly afterwards, Jerska hangs himself.

Enraged, Dreymann arranges to anonymously publish an article on concealed suicide rates in the GDR in the West German magazine Der Spiegel. As all typewriters are registered with the Stasi, Dreyman uses a miniature typewriter smuggled in from the West, which he hides under the threshold between two rooms of his apartment. It becomes important that the ribbon of this typewriter is red only. Before discussing sensitive issues in the flat, Dreyman and his friends try to test whether the flat is bugged by a feigned attempt at smuggling. However, out of compassion, Wiesler cannot bring himself to pass on the information. As a result, the conspirators think that the flat is not bugged.

Though Wiesler originally intended his inactivity to be a one-time move, he continues to lie in his reports to protect Dreyman and reduces surveillance hours in order to eliminate his assistant. Wiesler feels increasingly isolated and alone, but begins to feel more of a kinship with his fellow human-beings. He steals a book of Brecht off Dreyman's desk and reads it himself. For perhaps the first time in his career, he refrains from following up a lead on a possible dissident when a neighbor child quotes a comment critical of the Stasi, which his father had made. He tries to create more human contact by hiring a prostitute, but she suggests that just then she has no time reserved for him other than for the act itself, and must move on to her next client.

Eventually, Dreyman and his friends finish the article and it is published, infuriating the East German government. Through an agent in the West, the Stasi obtains the typed manuscript only to learn that it was written on an unregistered typewriter with red ink.

Meanwhile, Minister Hempf, seething with hatred at being jilted by Sieland, orders Grubitz to destroy her. He informs Grubitz that Sieland has been buying prescription drugs illegally (it is implied she was relying on Hempf to protect her if she was caught). Later, Grubitz and his men catch her purchasing these drugs. She is arrested and, under pressure, reveals Dreyman's authorship of the Spiegel article. The flat is torn apart by the Stasi, but the typewriter remains elusive. After this failure, Grubitz calls in Wiesler to interrogate Sieland but warns him that a failure to produce results will cost them both.

As Grubitz watches through a one way mirror, Wiesler interrogates Sieland with the same flawlessness that characterised him for many years and subtly referring to their earlier conversation. She tells him where the typewriter is hidden. Grubitz then leads a second search through Dreyman's apartment, now that the location of the typewriter is known. As Grubitz prepares to open the compartment, Sieland, upon seeing Dreymann's horrified expression as he realises that she had disclosed the location of the typewriter, runs out of the apartment. However, the typewriter has vanished, much to the shock of both Grubitz and Dreyman. It emerges that Wiesler had rushed to the apartment, broken in while Dreymann was out and removed the typewriter, which he hides in his car. At the same time, a guilt-ridden Sieland rushes out into the street and throws herself in front of a truck. Wiesler, waiting by his car, witnesses the ensuing collision and tells her that he has already removed the typewriter. Dreyman arrives at the scene and Sieland dies in his arms. Believing that she removed the typewriter to protect him, he weeps unconsolably. Grubitz makes a polite but perfunctory claim of sympathy and leaves with Wiesler.

In the aftermath, the surveillance is called off. Certain that Wiesler has somehow interfered with the investigation, Grubitz demotes his friend to Department M, where he must steam open letters all day. He is also given a promotional ban until he retires in 20 years. Four years and seven months later, Wiesler is opening letters when a co-worker with a radio notifies him of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Elated, Wiesler and his co-workers silently leave.

After German reunification, Dreyman, who thought he had been able to publish his article because his flat was not bugged, learns from Minister Hempf that to the contrary, he was under full surveillance all along, and uncovers the microphones and surveillance material in his flat, much to his astonishment. Probing his Stasi files (opened to the public after Reunification), he learns that Sieland was released far too late to have removed the typewriter. To his shock, Dreymann comes to the realization that Stasi Agent "HGW XX/7" deliberately covered up his deeds against the state, such as the writing of the suicide article. On the final report, a smudge of red ink reveals Wiesler's contact with the typewriter. Deeply moved, Dreyman succeeds in locating Wiesler and watches from a distance as the former agent goes about his new job of delivering advertising leaflets.

Two years later, Dreyman publishes his first new work since Sieland's death, a novel entitled Sonata for a Good Man. As Wiesler sees the book advertised in a bookstore he passes on the street, the film seems to be inviting the viewer to wonder whether this title causes him to recall Sieland's calling him "a good man" in their brief encounter in the bar nine years before. (This a crafted internal resonance by the filmmaker, however much we would like it to be Dreyman's tribute to Wiesler, as Dreyman knew nothing of this). However, this foreshadowing is realized as inside the bookstore, Wiesler finds that the book is dedicated "To HGW XX/7, in gratitude". As he purchases the book, he is asked if he wants it gift-wrapped. With the camera framing his face in a masterfully composed shot, conferring on him a subtly luminous, almost ennobled quality, Wiesler declines with a poignant double entendre, saying wistfully, "No, it's for me."

[edit] Production

Henckel von Donnersmarck's parents were both from East Germany. He has said that, on visits there as a child before the Berlin Wall fell, he could sense the fear they had as subjects of the state.^[5]

He said the idea for the movie came to him when he was trying to come up with a movie scenario for a film class. As he listened to a piece of music, he recalled Maxim Gorky's anecdote about Lenin listening to Beethoven's Appassionata.^[1] Gorky wrote:

"I know of nothing better than the Appassionata and could listen to it every day. What astonishing, superhuman music! It always makes me proud, perhaps naively so, to think that people can work such miracles!" Wrinkling up his eyes, Lenin smiled rather sadly, adding: "But I can't listen to music very often. It affects my nerves. I want to say sweet, silly things and pat the heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty. One can't pat anyone on the head nowadays, they might bite your hand off. They ought to be beaten on the head, beaten mercilessly, although ideally we are against doing any violence to people. Hm—– what a hellishly difficult job!^[6]

Henckel von Donnersmarck told a New York Times reporter: "I suddenly had this image in my mind of a person sitting in a depressing room with earphones on his head and listening in to what he supposes is the enemy of the state and the enemy of his ideas, and what he is really hearing is beautiful music that touches him. I sat down and in a couple of hours had written the treatment." The screenplay was written during an extended visit to his uncle's monastery, Heiligenkreuz Abbey^[7].

Henckel von Donnersmarck had difficulty getting financing for the $2 million film. Podhoretz speculated that the reason was a reluctance on the part of the film industry to confront the horrors of East German Communism, although he says it is rich with dramatic possibilities. That may also explain why the organizers of the Berlin Film Festival refused to accept it as an official entry for 2006, the critic wrote.^[6]

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crinema paradisa

A boy who grew up in a native Sicilian Village returns home as a famous director after receiving news about the death of an old friend. Told in a flashback, Salvatore reminiscences about his childhood and his relationship with Alfredo, a projectionist at Cinema Paradiso. Under the fatherly influence of Alfredo, Salvatore fell in love with film making, with the duo spending many hours discussing about films and Alfredo painstakingly teaching Salvatore the skills that became a stepping stone for the young boy into the world of film making. The film brings the audience through the changes in cinema and the dying trade of traditional film making, editing and screening. It also explores a young boy's dream of leaving his little town to foray into the world outside.
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The Host

In Korea they eat noodles with chopsticks and they sit on the floor to eat.

In the present day, Park Gang-du (Song Kang-ho) is a seemingly slow-witted man who runs a snack-bar with his father, Hee-bong (Byeon Hee-bong). Hyun-seo (Ko Ah-seong) is a schoolgirl and Gang-du's daughter. Gang-du's sister, Nam-joo (Bae Doona), is a national medalist archer who has an unfortunate tendency to hesitate, and his brother Nam-il (Park Hae-il) is an alcoholic former activist who has not done much since graduating from university.

Gang-du is delivering a meal to some patrons, and sees a crowd gathering along Han River. He joins them as they stand near the side of the river and point at something under the Wonhyo Bridge. It is the creature, now grown. It drops into the water, and moves towards shore. Gang-du throws a can of beer into the water near it, and the creature grabs for the can. The other people nearby then begin to playfully toss other pieces of food to it, but the creature disappears from view. A few moments later, the creature appears on shore behind them, and begins to attack and devour people. Gang-du and an American man named Donald try to fight the creature, and successfully hit it with a street sign, Donald however, loses his arm to the creature afterwards. As Gang-du runs away, he sees Hyun-seo emerge from the snack bar and grabs her hand without stopping. He then stumbles and unwittingly grabs a different girl. A short distance away, he looks back and sees the creature pull Hyun-seo into the river. Gang-du then sees the monster dragging her on the opposite bank before disappearing into the water.

As the family mourns the young girl in a shelter set up for victims of the attack, government representatives in yellow bio-hazard suits arrive and demand to know who has had direct contact with the creature. Gang-du admits that he has, and the family is forced to the hospital, where Gang-du is quarantined. The Korean government announces that the creature is not only a direct danger, but also the host of a deadly, unknown virus that they claim infected the American whose arm had been bitten off. Gang-du receives a phone call from Hyun-seo, who is not dead, but trapped in a sewer. She is cut off as her cellphone battery runs out. Gang-du tries to explain to others, but his explanation sounds more insane than sane to the people at the hospital. Hee-bong believes his son, and uses up his life savings so that they can escape from the hospital and rescue Hyun-seo. They are then able to obtain a truck, two non-yellow hazmat suits, weapons, and a map of the sewer system around the Han River.

The family search the sewers to no avail. They return to their snack stand at the banks of the Han river to rest for the night. Hee-bong admonishes his younger son and daughter for lambasting Gang-du, admitting that his son's slow-wit was caused by him because over the years he wasn't able to provide sufficient care for his older son as he did with them. They wake to find the creature watching them. Hee-bong fires on the creature, causing it to attack them and overturn the snack stand. As the creature tries to get at them inside, Hee-bong fires a shot that causes the creature to flee. Hee-bong, Gang-du & Nam-il give chase, firing wildly. Hee-bong is eventually killed by the creature, and Gang-du is captured by soldiers; Nam-il and Nam-joo escape but are separated.

In the hospital, Gang-du overhears that there is no virus: the government is merely perpetuating a charade to save face. The American scientist who lets out the secret claims that Gang-du is infected in the brain. A team of doctors perform a frontal lobotomy on Gang-du. Afterwards, a nurse mocks the seemingly brain-damaged and unresponsive Gang-du. He suddenly takes her hostage with a syringe full of his "infected" blood, his "slow-wittedness" apparently cured by the lobotomy, and escapes to find that he is not in a hospital, but the back of a military truck on the Han River shores. He drives to Wonhyo Bridge in an ambulance.

Hyun-seo has been trapped in a deep sewer pit since she was spit out by the creature. The creature periodically drops off victims into the pit, to store for later. Hyun-seo finds all the others dead or dying except for a young street urchin named Se-joo. Nam-il goes to a college friend for help, and traces Hyun-seo's phone call. He is betrayed for reward money, but cleverly escapes. Before losing consciousness under a bridge, he sends a text message with Hyun-seo's location to Nam-joo. Nam-Joo goes to the bridge, but comes across the creature. She is near enough that she has a shot, but just as she has the creature in her sights, she hesitates. The creature runs past her and she is knocked unconscious. Hyun-seo tries to climb out of the sewer by a rope fashioned from her and other victims' clothes, but the creature snatches her and places her back on her feet. The camera cuts to black as the creature pounces on her and Se-joo.

Gang-du discovers the feeding pit only in time to see the creature dashing away with a child's arm dangling from its mouth. He chases it on land as it dives into the river. Nam-il wakes to see a homeless man who has been tending to him, and with the man's help and liquor, he makes several Molotov cocktails and together they take a taxi to the Wonhyo Bridge. Nam-joo also awakes. She sees the creature and Gang-du run past her and follows them. The three siblings are led to the riverbank, where the creature attacks demonstrators protesting the government's use of Agent Yellow - a chemical weapon highly harmful to humans - against the creature (and the non-existent virus). Police press back the demonstrators, trying to hold them back. The crowd finally disperses as the creature comes near to the shoreline. All three siblings meet up briefly on top of the bridge, but Gang-Du leaps from the bridge to chase the creature.

Agent Yellow is released and incapacitates the creature temporarily. Pushing through the poisonous fumes, Gang-du pulls out the two seemingly lifeless children from the creature's mouth. Hyun-Seo had grabbed the other child and had avoided being fully swallowed by grabbing onto a large tooth but the three siblings discover she has suffocated. The creature revives and tries to return to the river. Enraged, Gang-du grabs a street sign and begins to battle the creature. Nam-il also begins to throw his Molotov cocktails at it. The creature, apparently terrified of fire, continues to flee. The homeless man whom Nam-il met appears and douses the creature with gasoline, but Nam-il accidentally drops his last bottle as he attempts to throw it. Nam-joo picks up one of the lit fragments with her arrow and shoots it into the creature's eye, causing it to burst into flames, screaming in agony. The creature makes a last attempt to flee towards the protection of the river, but Gang-du finally kills it by shoving the street sign through its mouth, piercing its brain.

As Nam-joo and Nam-il mourn over their dead niece, Gang-du manages to revive Se-joo. In the epilogue, we see Gang-du and Se-joo living as a family in the rebuilt and cozy-looking snack bar, sometime in the winter. One night Gang-du believed he saw something move outside. He gets his rifle but then sets it down, believing it was his imagination. A televised US Senate press release - claiming that the Korean "disease crisis" was caused by "misinformation" - is drowned out by their conversation. The child asks him to turn it off, as he finds it boring, and they eat dinner.

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Napoleon Dynamite

Preston, Idaho's most curious resident, Napoleon Dynamite, lives with his grandma and his 32-year-old brother (who cruises chat rooms for ladies) and works to help his best friend, Pedro, snatch the Student Body President title from mean teen Summer Wheatley. Written by Anonymous

Napoleon Dynamite, a lovable, unpopular high school age guy who just wants to fit in. There's Deb, the girl who keeps showing up with her crap on the front porch. There's Kip, Napoleon's geek brother who's searching for love. There's Rico, Napoleon's jock uncle who just seems to want to ruin Napoleon's life. And then Pedro shows up. The new kid in town. He's from Mexico, he has an awesome bike, and he's the only kid in school with a mustache. When Napoleon befriends Pedro, and Pedro decides to run for class president, Napoleon gets his chance to show his stuff and prove that he's got nothing to prove. Written by Isaac

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The triplets of Belle ville

The Triplets of Belleville (French: Les Triplettes de Belleville) is a Belgium-Quebec-France coproduced 2003 animated surreal adventure film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. It was released as Belleville Rendez-vous in the United Kingdom. The film is Chomet's first feature film and was an international co-production between companies in France, United Kingdom, Belgium and Canada.

The film features the voices of Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, and Monica Viegas; there is little dialogue, the majority of the film story being told through song and pantomime. It tells the story of Madame Souza, an elderly woman who goes on a quest to rescue her grandson Champion, a Tour de France cyclist, who has been kidnapped by the French mafia for gambling purposes and taken to the city of Belleville. She is joined by the triplets of Belleville, music hall singers from the 1930s, who she meets in the city, and her obese hound dog, Bruno.

The film was highly praised by audiences and critics for its unique (and somewhat retro) style of animation. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards — Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for "Belleville Rendez-vous". It was also screened out of competition (hors concours) at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

The story focuses on Madame Souza, an elderly woman raising her young grandson, Champion. Souza notices her grandson is sad and lonely so she buys him a puppy named Bruno to cheer him up. Although initially happy, he quickly becomes melancholy once again. After discovering that Champion has a keen interest in road bicycle racing, because it is implied that Champion's deceased parents were bicyclists, she buys him a tricycle. Years later, Champion becomes a professional cyclist with Souza as his coach.

Eventually, Champion enters the Tour de France but during the race, he and two other riders are kidnapped by two French mafia henchmen and brought to the bustling metropolis of Belleville, somewhere in North America. Souza and Bruno follow the men, but lose their trail soon after reaching the city. Lost and with no way to find Champion, Souza has a chance encounter with the renowned Belleville triplets, music hall singers from the 1930s, now elderly women turned improvisational musicians. The sisters take Souza to their home and over time she becomes a part of their group. Meanwhile, the mafia boss drugs the kidnapped cyclists and employs a mechanic to build a stationary cycling machine for the racers to race on — to create their own mini Tour de France for gambling.

At a fancy restaurant the triplets plus Souza perform a jam session using a newspaper, refrigerator, vacuum and bicycle wheel. The mafia boss who kidnapped her grandson happens to be in the same restaurant and, with the help of Bruno, Souza realizes he has Champion. She tails one of the mafia's minions the next day and discovers their scheme. That night, several mob bosses and their henchmen arrive at the mafia hideout and place bets on the riders. Madam Souza, Bruno and the triplets then infiltrate the hideout and sabotage the contraption, unbolting it from the ground and turning it into a pedal-powered vehicle on which they all escape. The mob henchmen pursue them, but are all thwarted amidst the chase. The film ends with the motley group riding on out of Belleville, and a flashforward to an elderly Champion reflecting on the adventure.

fargo

That moive was good I like it have to much shouting in the moive those bad guys tke his wife and the bad guy went money from larry and police women take the bad guy to jail.

The Son's Room

Giovanni is a successful psychoanalyst who has to put up with the seemingly endless string of trivial details his patients ramble on about. Yet his family provides a loving and steadfast foundation for his life that can even survive a problem like their son, Andrea, being accused of stealing a rare fossil in school. That foundation is profoundly rocked when Andrea dies in a scuba diving accident. Although the usual arrangements run smoothly, the emotional harm is profound. Giovanni begins to obsessively dwell on the missed chances he had with his son that might have saved his life, even blaming his patients. In addition , his wife is inconsulable and his daughter is becoming anti social in their loss. In the midst of this turmoil, a secret of their son's life is revealed that provides healing in a way they never anticipated.

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Run Lola run

The moive was good Lola run very fest to her boy friend form a store her boy friend had ad gun try toshout the people in the store to get money.

noi the albino

Nói Kristmundsson is a 17 year old living in a small unnamed remote fishing village in western Iceland with his grandmother Lína (Anna Friðriksdóttir). His father Kiddi (Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson), an alcoholic taxi driver, also lives in town, but Nói appears to have a distant relationship with him. As an alopecia totalis his appearance is strikingly different from others in the village. Much of his time is spent either wandering the desolate town, at the town bookstore, or in a hidden cellar at his grandmother's house, which serves as his private sanctuary. The town is a sort of purgatory for Nói, surrounded by mountains and attainable only by boat during the wintertime when the roads through the mountain passes are snowed over. There are signs that Nói is highly intelligent, but he is totally uninterested in school and seems to have an adversarial relationship with the faculty, particularly his math teacher. More often than not he cuts class to go to the local gas station, where he frequently breaks into the slot machine and rigs it for an assured jackpot. The bleak town seem to offer few prospects for the future, and Nói doesn't seem to fit in there.

Things begin to change for Nói when he encounters the new gas station attendant, an attractive young woman who is new to the village. He inquires about the new girl to Óskar (Hjalti Rögnvaldsson) the bookstore owner, who informs him that she is his daughter Íris (Elín Hansdóttir) up from the south to escape the city, and to stay away from her. Nói instead begins a tentative romance with Íris. One night they break into the local natural history museum, and are almost caught by a night watchman. They hide in a storage closet, where they discover a light-up map of the world. Nói comments that Iceland looks like a spitwad on the map, and Íris suggests that they run away together. Nói asks where, and Íris suggests he press a button on the map and the Hawaiian Islands light up. This is when Nói begins to dream of leaving the village, and Iceland altogether. He receives a View-master as a present from his grandmother, which comes with slide disc of tropical island images. He is particularly transfixed with an image of a tropical beach, which stands in opposite to his immediate surroundings.

One day at school, he is asked by the principal to meet with a specialist. The specialist asks him a series of questions, including "How many times a day do you masturbate?" Nόi responds by asking the specialist the same question, simultaneously solving a Rubik's Cube. The specialist becomes embarrassed, states that he is the one asking the questions, and gives him an I.Q test to complete. Later, Nói uses a tape recorder to take his place in math class, which enrages the teacher. The teacher goes to the principal, insisting that Nόi is a disruptive influence and must be expelled immediately. The principal is hesitant, but he is forced to expel Nόi after the teacher gives the ultimatum that either Nόi goes or he will resign. Nόi angrily leaves the school, knowing that his father will be upset with him. He tells him, and a small altercation between them results. Afterwards his father takes him out to a local bar, where he is kicked out for smuggling liquor and underage drinking. He goes to Óskar's house in search of ĺris, climbing up on to the roof where he is discovered by Óskar. Óskar tells him he's sent her back, at which point Íris comes down the stairs. Íris insists that Nói stay the night, over Óskar's objections.

His grandmother goes to a local fortune teller, Gylfi (Kjartan Bjargmundsson) and requests that he give Nói a fortune reading, to maybe give him some direction. Nói is working as a grave digger at this time, and goes to see Gylfi on a lunch break. After reading the tea leaves, Gylfi becomes visibly upset, informing Nói that his future is filled with death. Nói, thinking that Gylfi is teasing him, calls him a moron and leaves. Soon after, Nói leaves his job, getting his grandmother's shotgun. He attempts to rob a bank, but is thwarted when the bank teller doesn't take him seriously, and has the gun taken out of his hands by the bank manager who angrily pushes him out on the street. He comes back inside the bank thoroughly humiliated and withdraws all of the money in his account, using it to buy a nice suit. He then steals a car, intending to run away with Íris. She is confused by his arrival and instead looks blankly at him. He realises that she is not coming with him, and leaves. His car becomes stuck in the snow, and he is quickly apprehended by the police. His father bails him out of jail, and takes him home. On the way back they stop at the gas station, where Nói sees Íris pumping gas, his father insults her by remarking that she looks like she's gained weight, and Nói shrinks down in his seat, embarrassed.

Nói arrives at home, and descends into his cellar sanctuary. Suddenly, the earth shudders violently, and the light goes out. Nói finds his lighter, and tries to get get out of the cellar, but is unable to open the overhead door, and lies down on the floor, watching his lighter until the fuel runs out. He is eventually awoken by the door above him being ripped open. He discovers that there was an avalanche, which has destroyed the house and killed his grandmother and father. At a rescue shelter, he watches the news report and discovers that nearly everyone he knows has been killed in the avalanche, including Íris. Gylfi, his prophecy fulfilled, had also perished. He later returns to the rubble of his grandmother's house to retrieve the View-Master. The movie ends with Nói looking at the tropical beach scene slide as it slowly becomes a vision of a real tropical beach.

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run lola run

Lola a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 in a subway train that belongs to very bad guy. Lola min to this amount and meet Manny. Othwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different altematives may happen depending on some minor event along lola run.

Persepolis

The moive was good I like it the moive was about Perspolis. It was war she was are little girl. She was sad her Uncle went to jail.

The Color Of Paradise

The moive was good the kid was bland he can't see good.

Maria full of Grace

gracia, lit Maria full are you of grace) is a joint Colombian American film, written and directed by Joshua Marston, who won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Although the movie depicts rural life in Colombia, it was actually filmed in Ecuador. The title is a double-entendre alluded to on the poster—a simultaneous reference to the Hail Mary and to what Maria carries in her into the United States.

Lead actress Catalina Sandino Moreno was named Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in the 77th Academy Awards. She is one of three Hispanic actresses to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, together with Mexican actress Salma Hayek for Frida (2002) and Spanish actress Penelope Cruz for Volver (2006).

María Álvarez is a 17-year-old Colombian girl (played by Catalina Sandino Moreno) who works in sweat shop-like conditions at a flower plantation to help support her family. However, after finding herself pregnant by a boyfriend whom she does not love, forced to bring in the money for her unemployed sister (a single mother) and being unjustly treated by her boss, she quits and decides to find another job, despite her family's vehement disapproval. On her way to Bogotá to find a new job, she is offered a position as a mule — one who smuggles drugs by swallowing drug-filled pellets. Desperate, she accepts the risky offer, swallows 62 wrapped pellets of Heroin and flies to New York City. The title then changes to Maria Full of Drugs and takes a much more serious change in plot. After a close call at the US Customs (she was about to be X-rayed, until customs found out she was pregnant), she is set free and sent to a hotel where she is to remove the pellets from her body. The traffickers arrive to take the drugs. To retrieve the pellets from Lucy, a fellow mule who died when one of them ruptured inside of her, the traffickers cut open her stomach, then disposed of her body. After seeing this ruthless world firsthand, Maria decides to escape the drug-trafficking cartel.

The culture of japan

shell we dance

The movie was good the men dance it was funny he dance he was good dancer with the girl his firends dances with him . He ride his bike to the trirn to work.

place vote for me

The movie was good I like it this kids mom and are corps. The kids vote for they classmate the kids cry some kids did't win for the vote for him the kids was so sad.

Ianda

That movie was good is about hockey the girls win the world pick I very good I like it all lot.

Please vote for me

Eight-year old childen compete for the postion of class monitor inthe first school election og its kid held in china. Aided and abetted by parents and teachers, the young candiates reveal the nature of democracy in a rapidly changing country.

betrayr

The move was good I like the move the kid take abut his da was in the army the kid live with his mom and his brother. The kid miss his father lot he come home say i to his wife and kids his dad add another wife in florda the dad had three kids in the florda his kid dided.

cend trnotro

The moves was good Mr W his was mad at those kids shout his famlily it was so sad for me. And Mr W take his dog to his anbore and he toke of to the ked friends house he try to shout the kids about the kids shout Mr. W his friend was sad he dided.

Chak De

One man mentoring a hockey team of young and feisty girls. Their determination, ambition and skills are put to test in an ultimate contest with the world�s more..Chak De India� is a beautifully made film that makes you laugh, makes you cry, gives you goose bumps, and stirs up patriotism inside you. It is a film more..

Chak De! India (Hindi: चक दे इंडिया English: "Go For It, India!")^[2] is a 2007 Bollywood sports film about field hockey in India. It is directed by Shimit Amin, produced by Yash Raj Films, and stars Shahrukh Khan as Kabir Khan, the former captain of the Indian hockey team. After a disastrous loss to the Pakistani hockey team, Khan is ostracized from the sport. He and his mother are further forced from their ancestral home by angry neighbors. Seven years later in an attempt to redeem himself, Khan becomes the coach for the Indian women's hockey team with the goal of turning its sixteen contentious players into a champion team. After leading the women's team to the Gold, Khan restores his reputation and returns with his mother to their home, welcomed by those who had shunned them years before.

Chak De! India explores religious bigotry, the legacy of partition, ethnic/regional prejudice, and sexism in contemporary India through field hockey.^[3][4][5] Screenwriter Jaideep Sahni decided to write a fictional screenplay based on the winning of the Gold by the Indian women's field hockey team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games after reading about it in the newspaper.^[6][7] Thus the characters, while inspired by the real team and coaches, were invented by Sahni.^[8] Although some media outlets compared Kabir Khan to real-life hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi,^[9] Sahani has stated that he was unaware of Negi's tribulations while writing the script and that the resemblance with Negi's life was coincidental.^[10]

Earning over Rs 639 million, Chak De! India was the fourth highest grossing movie of 2007 in India ^[11] and was critically acclaimed.^[12] Chak De! India has won numerous awards (including eight for Best Film) and received the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.^[13] The suspension of the Indian Hockey Federation in April 2008 emphasized the film's influence. After a new hockey council was formed, former hockey player, Aslam Sher Khan, stated in an interview, "We have to make a Team India as you have seen in bollywood blockbuster Chak De! India. There are players from several parts of the country. We have to unite them to make a powerful force."^[14

Featured Chak De India Movie Review

by dblacksmith

Chake De is so much more than a Sport film or a Hockey film. Its so much more than that.

It addresses most relevant issues that our citizens are facing in their desire to become world class.

The main issues, which it addressed include the gender issue, the individual over the team issue, the leadership crisis issue, the communal issue, the post marriageidentity crisis isssue, the pathetic national sports issueand the generation gap issue.

These are issues which are being handled by every single indian in some area of his life. Be it as a student, an employee, a job aspirant, a lover, a father/mother, a wife/husband or as a noble minded indian.

The movie comes as a support to all those struggling indians. It comes as a uniting force which addresses all these issues by highlighting them an a extremely 'in-your-face' manner.

The movie charged me to such an extent that for ten minutes after the movie got over I was sitting in my seat, feel the blood boil in my veins.

My heart weeped for my country, because i could see clearly the challenges that we were facing in our daily life in our challenge to become professional, quality consious global indians.

For the past two years, I have been working in rural india sharing my skills with schools and colleges.I feel that every single indian must see this movie. I see it as anther Sholay.

Go see it. You will change.

Cheers

Gurmeethe making-of-a-team sports movie is a timeworn genre, and yet “Chak De! India” (“Go, India!”) finds new variations. Though the game here is field hockey, those fondly recalling the United States soccer team’s first-place finish in the 1991 Women’s World Cup will find a lot to like.

Of course, there are conventions. Kabir Khan (the assured Bollywood veteran Shahrukh Khan) is a former player for India’s national field hockey team who missed a fateful play against Pakistan, costing a championship and making him a pariah. Seven years later, he is hired to coach the nation’s women’s hockey team, giving him one more shot at a title.

The players, from states all over India, are a fractious lot, including a tomboy (Chitrashi Rawat) whose father fears she will never marry; a forward (Sagarika Ghatge) whose boyfriend, a cricket superstar, wants her to quit the team and live in his shadow; a newlywed goalie (Vidya Malavade) whose in-laws expect her to stay at home; and a haughty, seasoned player (Shilpa Shukla) who needles the coach.

When leering boys at a McDonald’s harass them, a girls-against-boys melee erupts, but the coach doesn’t interfere, knowing the team will prevail — and find its spirit. From there, it’s on to the women’s hockey championships in Melbourne, Australia.

The director, Shimit Amin, strikes a buoyant, propulsive tone, replacing the customary Bollywood production numbers with exhilarating musical montages of team practice. For his part, Mr. Khan, to his credit, lets his co-stars’ youthful charisma carry the movie. He also laudably portrays a man who vigorously and unabashedly advocates the advancement of women.

In fact, the film’s greatest merit is its commentary on sexism in India. As it should, “Chak De! India” gives the women, in the closing credits, the last word.

Directed by Shimit Amin; written (in Hindi, with English subtitles) by Jaideep Sahni; edited by Amitabh Shukla; music by Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant; art director, Sukant Panigrahy; produced by Aditya Chopra; released by Yash Raj Films. In Manhattan at the Imaginasian Theater, 239 East 59th Street. Running time: 152 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: Shahrukh Khan (Kabir Khan), Vidya Malavade (Vidya Sharma), Chitrashi Rawat (Komal), Sagarika Ghatge (Preeti) and Shilpa Shukla (Bindia Naik).

Monqolian Ping pong ball

This kid get water from the river the kid saw Ping Pong im the river he put it in his hands it so his da and his grandma and Brothers. The kids talk about waht is Ping Pomg they say was a egg. The brothers went to school and he was all lot of ping Pong.

frting

The move was good I like it. The boy and girl also kissing at night time. The girl got in trople with teather was not good for her. And the boy he box the aother boy got hunrt bad. They have good food. The boys look that girls saw the girls at the dance. The hed matters wipe the boy in the buts it was all red.

Friday we finished watching "Rabbit Proof Fence." The movie made me sad because the police took the three sisters away from their mom and took them to a school. The girls leave from the school because they missed their mom. They walked for miles and miles in the desert. It was hot and sunny and windy. The girls ate plants and eggs that they got from a nest up in a tree. They ran into a guy who showed them a shortcut how to get to the fence. Then they ran into a woman who was hanging up clothes. She let them get food and stayed in her cabin and then they saw a guy coming to get them so they got scared and got out of bed and ran out. They hid from the police. They kept walking at night before the police could get them. They kept going and going until they got home. Her mom hugged them. One sister went to a train station and she was caught by the police. She tried to run away but they took her and took her back to the school. The two ladies at the end of the movie were old and they were the two sisters that the movie was about.

I watched a movie called "The Weeping Camel." It was a sad movie because the mom camel was sad. A family in Mongolia live in huts in the desert. It looks sunny and windy. There was sand everywhere. They have animals like sheep and camels. They ate a lot of white soup and drank tea. They sit on the ground when they eat. The grandma in the hut was throwing out white soup for the animals. They talked in a different language that I didnt understand but i knew what they were saying because I read the subtitles.

The mom camel had a baby. It was white. It was a boy I think. The mom didnt want to take care of the baby so the people helped her. They played a song and the mom came over and the baby came over to the mom and drank milk and food from the mom. Two boys went to the store to get batteries for their radio and the little boy ate ice cream.

There were a lot of things different about their life. One thing that was the same as me is that I drink soup like they do and I drink tea. The little baby in the movie was crying a lot and I have nieces and nephews that cry a lot when they are babies.

I did like this movie because I liked the people. The people in the movie were nice to their animals. I am nice to animals too.

I am going to be watching a movie called "Rabbit-proof Fence." This is about an Australian family and their experiences.  Three aboriginal children were stolen and removed from their family during the early 20th century.  It is their story of them and how they escaped.

First Blog

This is my first blog for my new class called Global Film Studies. We are going to be watching films and then blogging about them. I want to learn about different movies and film makers in this class.