xyzkozak

Oh, what the hell.... I certainly won't argue with the obvious fact that The Matrix did contain some very fine moments of CGI excellence, but I will argue with the fact that every single character in this film was less than likable (some clearly less likable than others). And because of that painfully plain truth The Matrix only rates 5 stars.

In particular, it was The Oracle who I thought to be nothing but a big, pudding-faced phony, baking her stale cookies and cheerfully dispensing away with her worthless "kitchen-counter" prophecies and laughable "dime-store" philosophy as if it were all to be taken at face value by gullible fools, like the stubborn, thick-skulled Morpheus.

And, on top of that, no one can tell me that NYC has such an incredibly vast and spacious sewer system that a literal fleet of ships the size of the Nebuchadnezzur can actually get lost within them for days and days on end, while scouting around for who-knows-what (?).

"Finding Vivian Maier" was certainly one of the more interesting documentaries that I've seen in quite a while.

Eccentric, secretive, enigmatic - Vivian Maier (who, besides being nanny) was also an amateur street-photographer with an exceptionally acute "photographic-eye".

To me, the most surprising thing about Vivian was that throughout her lifetime she never once showed her photographic work to anyone (and yet her output was phenomenal). Yes. Vivian was so private, yet so prolific.

Through interviews with members of the families whom Vivian had worked for from the late-1950s, onwards, the viewer gets a somewhat clearer picture as to who Vivian Maier really was.

But, the truth is, we will never, ever know the real story of the "real" Vivian Maier (who, sadly enough, died in 2009 in a state of poverty).