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Post by zaffra on Oct 17, 2007 10:31:21 GMT
Worthy sounding film about moral dilemas in torturing people to potentially save the lives of other starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep - not much there for the Low Cultured I hear you cry BUT if you look further down the cast list Floella Benjamin is starring in this very movie making it a must for all of you!
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Post by jode* on Oct 25, 2007 8:14:45 GMT
I didn't see her! I did look out.
The film's excellent. Very watchable, but all a little bit depressing for me. You know when you leave the cinema and the crowd is babbling excitedly and discussing what they'd just seen? After this, everyone had their heads hung and shuffled.
Plus, the popcorn tasted of cleaner. Yuck.
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Post by Becky on Oct 28, 2007 10:13:38 GMT
I didn't see Floella.
I thought it was a bit slow. It seemed like it was a story about a suicide bomber and the relationships around it, but as this story was all in arabic and about arabs, they thought that adding the American element to it would make it commercially viable for the western world. The American part was ok, but they could have developed it more and linked it better in to the other bit.
I was only really interested in the language bits to be honest. - I actually understood some of the words! It wasn't Egyptian Arabic though.
The synopsis I read was basically an American CIA person questioning the ethics of his new job, which, in my opinion, wasn't focused on enough to be the main element of the film.
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Post by pauliepoos on Nov 1, 2007 19:23:45 GMT
I didn't see Floella either.
I liked it. Meryl was good as you'd except and Reese wasn't too annoying, except for her Heather Mills shriek at the confrontation scene. The arabic storyline was the best thing about it - the whole impending sense of tragedy was done fantastically well and I really didn't see the twist coming.
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