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dead mans shoes


dead mans shoes was a brilliant film and a good example of Shane Meadows work. The film is a film about revenge and justice when Richard comes back from the army to humiliate and murder the gang who tortured his disabled brother Anthony who then after killed himself. The character Richard who is an ex SAS show the dark side of the lower class when his hot pursuit of carnage was in motion.
It is confusing for the audience to know whether they should like Richards character or not, As we feel sympathy for him because of the loss of his brother, yet don't approve of the acts of violence he is doing as they are so shocking. At the end he shows mercy towards Mark who was also involved in the torturing of Anthony but then forces Mark to use the knife on Richard, so although showing mercy, mark has to live with what happened.

Lord of the Flies

"There's 8 million islands out here, why should they find this one?"Lord of the flies was an interesting film that was shot on a deserted tropical island. After a horrific plane crash this group of young innocent schoolboys were left stranded there, having to fend for themselves. In the beginning of this powerful story the boys elected Ralph to be their leader, but some of the other boys had a different idea. When Jack decided to start an alliance of savages that he called "hunters" who where covered in war paint and went out killing wild pigs and anything else they could eat that's when the group was divided. In this film the music played a big part because as the film progressed the music followed. In the end when the "hunters" burned down the jungle and were in pursuit of Ralph, the music sped up and the camera shots changed quickly which showed a lot of tension which was well directed. In this powerful fight for survival acting as children and not fully understanding the consequences of their actions, they started killing eachother with no hesitaion which in my mind brought the story to an emotional end. I think after the "hunters" killed Simon people joined the possessed savages out of fear not choice they thought that if they didn't join they would be killed along with Simon and Piggy who were only trying to help. This was an emotional film that was filled with violence, treachery, loyalty and death. This film was showed lots of imagination and I enjoyed watching it.

Taken

This was an intense and exciting film, when one man is on a brutal persute to find his daughter, who is kidnapped in france. As a retired CIA opretive agent he is equipped with certain skills which he finds extremely usefull in this brillint action film of the year. This film in my opinion has beaten james bond and the Bourne trillogy because it was very fast pace and it was quite emotional the fact that it showed you how much he cared about his daughter.


 

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