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In Italy, despite its five Academy nomination, its widely acclaimed reception and the debate has provoked all around the world Whiplash has been showed in 25 cinemas. In ALL Italy. For only one week. No jokes. That's why I had to hurry up yesterday night and go to see it before they took it away.

I think Whiplash is not exactly an innovation for cinema: there is a load of similar movies which have been made, about music competition, et cetera. But I think there are at least two point which are original for it and deserve a remarking. The first one is, naturally, the character of Terrence Fletcher. Modern projection of Hartman Sergeant in a conservatory, it provides the most inspiring occasions for the screenplay, and the most emotional (meaning both tears and laughs) moments. The other one is the direction approach to the music scenes. Such peculiarity is given by a claustrophobic editing and by inspiring close-cuts on details: sweat, ears, the drops of blood. It was an innovative way to make the audience feel the same feelings and fear the same fears than the musician.

I have a new champion to cheer for at the Academy Awards!

Noi e la Giulia is not what you'd call a masterpiece, nor what you'd call a very good movie, actually. Indeed, in order to analyze what is good in this movie you have to contextualize it in its real environment, which is the Italian comedy. And recently the Italian comedy has gone real bad. That's why I think it is possible to give some credit to the filmmakers which believe in projects like Noi e la Giulia.

As a matter of fact, the movie provides occasion for some real laugh. Talking about the screenplay, there are lines which are good and lines which are extremely banal, but both made the audience laugh, and I guess this is what a comedy aims to. Also, you would expect a poor direction by Edoardo Leo, which is both on its very first steps and such a good-looking fellow that a prejudiced would think he would never made it to a good direction (not me obviously), but all in all it could have been worst, and it's supported by an interesting photography.

I like to see this title more as a starting point than as an arrival, and moreover I think I'd like to see more movies like this in the Italian cinema and less like the ones of Christian De Sica.

I've seen this movie because I love the cinematographic saga of X-Men, I've loved basically every chapter has ever been made. But this movie went against my usual taste for several reasons.

I won't focus on the plot holes that have been widely pointed out (in almost every bad review) but I'm afraid they all have a point. This part is with no doubt one of the responsible for the bad achievements of the movie. Moreover, I think that one of the most interesting aspects of the X-Men saga was the orchestra of characters, which was the perfect expedient for plot-developing, personality building and even for the comic line. With the lack of every known X-Men here except for the Wolverine, it seems to me that we have lost the occasion for an interesting plot, for any analysis of Logan's character and for any comic line which is not lame.

An error rather than a lost occasion.