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Bron/Broen (2011)
Absolutely Fantastic
I just finished watching the whole series in 2 days. I've Never seen anything like it and I watch most every show crime and law enforcement related. After the 3rd episode, I had to check out the Saga Noren character, because I didn't understand her behavior. As soon as I typed the character name in google search, Autism and Asperger Syndrome popped up. Then I understood. Wonderful. Saga's peccadillo's' had me howling with laughter. When she thoughtfully inspected her nether region, smiled, picked up a hot date, got serviced, then turned over and went to sleep, I was just as outdone as him, but howled with laughter. When she described the killers profile, I thought she was talking about herself too in the context of the conversation. The look on her bosses' face, priceless, along with all his subsequent incredulous, exasperated looks. I've never seen as perfect a paring as Saga and Martin. Thank God for You Tube & Steven King. Mr. King wrote an article titled "The best things I watched on TV in 2012". That's where I heard about The Bridge. The US will be I'm sure, mucking it up in a remake. We've just got to have that unrealistic happy ending. I'm not so patiently waiting for series 2. Thank you Denmark and Sweden.
Chugyeokja (2008)
This movie has me searching for more top-notch Korean films
WHAT A WONDERFUL NEW YEARS 2012 PRESENT! I love movies, and this one ranks as GREAT in my book. It was shown at 2 AM Detroit time on the Sundance channel. I was asleep, turned over at about 2:05 AM, opened my eyes, focused on the TV and the Korean actor Kim Yoon-Seok (my TV watches me while I sleep), and was HOOKED for the next 2 hours. I agree with other reviewers who feel that this film gives you the same gut-punches and edge of your seat thrills as Silence of the Lambs. The bad guy gives Hannibal Lector a run for his money. In one scene, the little girls wide-mouth, seemingly endless wail is still rocking my world. If you love intelligent, realistic, (mostly, nothings perfect) thrilling cinema, watch this film at your earliest convenience. I am now off to find what other work this first-time director has done. He knocked it out of the park with this one.
Fail Safe (1964)
A VIsceral Reaction
I'm 52, Black and female. I first saw Fail Safe at age 12. I just watched it again. How any intelligent person can laugh while watching this movie is beyond my comprehension. Even Henry Fonda said that he would not have done the movie and would have laughed watching it, if he had seen Dr. Strangelove first. I just don't get it. From the opening scene of the bullfight, that dying bull, and General Black's reaction in the dream, I was riveted to the screen and had deep visceral reactions to everything that happened. I found/find the film completely believable. People have stated that the President would have never made the decision to bomb New York when in my opinion, it was the only decision he COULD make to avert nuclear war with Russia. I'm not a film maker, so the quibbles viewers had with the way the film looked is neither here nor there to me. I cried during various scenes, and cried like a baby when that high-pitched sound erupted, when General Black dropped the bombs on New York and killed himself, and especially during the final scene showing that little Black boy. I don't believe there was one Black, Hispanic, or other minority in the film. I am not trying to be racist, but I can remember thinking then and now, 'It's like we don't exist and have nothing to do with the war machine, but we pay with our lives anyway'. I think Fail Safe is an excellent movie. Sure, I laughed my a$$ off at Dr. Strangelove too, and feel there is a lot of truth in that film also. IMO, the premise might be the same, but the 2 films are entirely different.