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The Edukators-Review

I think this film directed by weingartner in 2004 was an interesting film on 3 german youths who moved furniture around in well off peoples homes, an opposite world from where they come from. i havn't seen a film with a stortyline like the idea behind this and so this makes it individual in my eyes. i liked the way that when they captured the man instead of torturing him in the way you might expect they just took him away with them which i much preferred. This may have been because they had a woman as part of there 'team' and so this may have allowed for less violence as it was something the 2 male characters, Jan and peter, didn't want the female character,jule, to see.

we learn from the two male characters that they both have feelings for jule. she begins the film dating peter but then cheats on him with jan. This also adds a kind of a love triangle to the film, which peter doesn't even notice until the man the have captured points it out. This lov triangle adds another twist to the plot.

In a way i much preferred this to the french new wave films i have been studyingas i think it has a more interesting and faster paced storyline. I think the fact that it is slightly more moderen and in colour also helps

I have seen the english and the german versions of the two different endings of the film. I prefer the german ending of the film as i like the fact that they sail off on a boat and your sort of left wondering what they are going to do next.

Love, Honour and Obey

Directed by Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis love, honour and obey is a film about 2 gangs; North and South London. Ray Winstone plays the well known gangster of North London Ray Kreed and Jude Law plays his nephew. The main character called johnny played by Jonny Lee Miller is hungrey for some real gangster action and he sparks a deadly feud between Ray's gang and the south london gang. Jonnys character then leads us through the story wit his narration.This is done through flashbacks back to jonny telling the story and the action which happened in the past. The actors in it all have a really big impact because they are all playin characters from how they would normally be themselves but they are all using there own names which makes you think in the film they are playing themselves and they are really like this.
I watched the film at home on my own on dvd.
i really enjoyed the film as it is a comedy an it made me laugh so much at things that you wouldn't normally laugh at but because of the way they have made certain parts of the film work.I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys action and comedy but also great british cinema.


 

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