samharmon23

The Whole Shootin' Match was such a strange movie to me. The characters were so crazy. You have this very sweet woman who just wants to be a good wife and loving mother but her husband is a crazy jerk man and his cousin is trying to woo her. Then there is the just goofy guy that is just going with life doesn't ask for a lot and doesn't need a lot but he is full of the inventive ideas and just really wants to make a patent on something. He is an entrepreneur. The goofy man and the jerk man are best friends and both struggling financially. They are constantly looking for jobs that are going to lead them to lots of money but keeping failing at every attempt. It is quite depressing actually when the man cannot even buy his own son a new bike after his other one gets stolen. These people are very poorly educated and it shows. The entrepreneur finally comes up with a great invention and takes it to go have it produced but he is naïve and gets screwed over by the dirty business upper class men. He tries to go and get back what is rightfully his but the man has good expensive lawyers working for him and even some big body guards and the two country bumpkin men just can't compete with that so they are forced to just give up and try and find their money elsewhere. This movie is very depressing and you just wish that they would finally be cut a break somewhere but the reality is that they are not and that is how it would be probably if this situation did occur in real life. It is a tough world to make it in and this movie does and awesome job portraying the struggles of two men's lives.

Simon del Desierto was a very different movie to me. Interesting though. I found many parts funny. Comedy is always good to have in film. It also relayed a neat message. This man stands on this pillar for days, weeks, even months just barely eating and drinking only taking in enough to survive. He is trying to be as close to God as possible. To be sinless for the most part. But as he is up on his pillar praying and fasting and just trying to lead the people to do a Jesus would he is constantly being tempted by the devil. The devil reveals himself to the man in many forms. Coming once as a seductive woman trying to get into his thoughts and make him surrender himself to her but he prays to get this devil away from him and his prayer is answered and the devil turns into its true form which was a dirty, nasty, old hag lady. The devil never stops though coming up with different plans of making this man mess up all he is working for. He even posses one of the other clergy men and puts poison into the man on the pillars food but he is caught again and the pillar man orders the devil leave the man and he is cast out of that guys body in and exorcist kind of manner. It is very creepy. But then there comes a time when it seems like his prayers were not answered and all of the sudden he is on a skyscraper in like New York at a party sipping on a drink and the devil is there with him in the form of another attractive lady. That is the part in where it kind of lost me but over all this movie was pretty interesting.

Chungking Express I found to be slightly creepy but cute in a way. It is about a love story. There was lots of commotion and running around in the streets. I got a little confused but I could see the love story in it and it made me feel good. This was one of those movies I did not quite follow very well but by the time I left the screening I felt good because it was a happy movie. It was cute kind of charming but also weird how she would express her feelings to this boy. But it was also very creepy in how she would sneak in his place an d change things all up and switch out the bear and stuff and he never even noticed it until the very end. That is very unrealistic and would never really happen in true life. That kind of takes away from the film a little bit for me. It kind of gave me a headache with all the chaos but it was very colorful and I really enjoyed that. The subtitles were very hard to read though. Can't keep up with a movie if you can read what is going down in the subtitles. Over all this was a very charming movie. Makes you feel good in how she found someone who loved her and would always be there. This is one of those films that gives the hopeless romantics hope. I would recommend this film to others especially over a bunch of the other ones I have had to sit and watch in this class but I definitely wouldn't be like you have to see this film it is that good. More of if you are going to have to watch these kinds of films this is one that you will not completely suffer through.