My Favorite Movies

I'm truly grateful to the Disney studios for this one. Well, it's probably perfect for anyone to see once or twice. It has a great plot, it has adventure, action, fantasy, romance, even a little horror (if you're a kid you might be scared of skeletons). The script is excellent, all the main characters make great, meaningful entrances and you... if you don't pay attention, you can drop yourself in the fantastic world of Captain Jack and believe me, I've never been able to get out of there.
The risk is greater for adults, paradoxically, probably because Jack embodies a prototype, he's the symbol of the dream of freedom and boundlessness of any grown-up who doesn't want to give up the child inside him. ("That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs but what a ship is... what the Black Pearl really is... is freedom."; "Now... bring me that horizon."). Jack is the man-child for whom everything is possible because he has the nerve to do it, and he has the magic gadget (the compass) which can take him wherever he wants. I imagine captain Jack was very much loved even by the one who interpreted him, for Depp was very creative and ingenious in every little detail of his character construction. No doubt that "The Pirates" would not have been the same without Geoffrey Rush, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Jack Davenport, Jonathan Pryce or any other of the crew.

The lines are funny and tonic and, you know what, being a Disney, you can enjoy a perfectly clean language and, therefore, a very subtle humor which I definitely fell in love with.

One more thing: you thought the moon is dangerous only when it comes to werewolfs? Clearly, you've never touched aztec gold.

Intelligent, creative, funny ... With the simplest means... at the highest degree. The perfect proof that less is more.

It's not quite clear to me how the inventor teached Edward all these things or if they are the result of the loneliness and suffering he has endured; certain is that he developed some very special ethics of love, which naturally can not be understood by the neighborhood's people, who can touch the world and have spoted it. Edward can not touch them, but he finds so many ways to show his affection. They touch him and they seem to hurt him every time... I was afraid, at some point, that Edward was going to get real hands and get caught in the neighborhood. I think that would have been really sad... he was supposed to be taken care with someone else's hands, like Peg did when she tried to heal his cuts, only this couldn't be... our world lost its purity. But Edward belongs to a different world, from which we only had a glimpse.

A tonic comedy of little gestures and significant details, labeled by mistake action/drama/thriller, probably because no one of the crew had the idea to wear a T-shirt with the writing PARODY at the premiere.

One of the most amusing movies I have ever seen. Not only amusing, amazingly creative.

Magic Jim Jarmusch movie. Black and white, unbelievable music. Comical and revealing alike. "It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop"; "Life is a limbo dance but it's a question of where you get down not how low you can get" - these things are literally written on the walls. Surprises arise everywhere. Not much action, but no need for it. It's not about doing things, it's about the world and the people in it.
"It's a sad and beautiful world" states Roberto (Benigni!) and shortly after that he lands in jail next to Jack and Zack. Those two have been framed, but Bob (that's short English for Roberto) confesses in his terribly sweet accent: "I killed a man. (...) But I "ham" no criminal. I "ham" a good egg". All his English knoledge are in his notebook, from which he gives out samples when he feels like it: "If looks can kill, I am dead now", when he got into the cell and the others were "observing" him, or the famous "I scream-a, you scream-a, we all scream-a for ice cream-a". He doesn't like the prison: "No good here... for me. Is, uh... Is... Not enough room to swing a cat"; and because the others don't seem to enjoy the joke, he explains further: "Cat. The animal". He finds a way out and, after facing the waters (the big attempt, he's the only one who can't swim) a reward awaits.

A seductive and ice-hearted Marlene plays with men's hearts but in the end she offers a surprise. How is the title to be read? Until the final scene, it's pretty clear: this woman is the devil himself. But then, there's another one: even the devil (she who seems to be) is only a woman capable of love... who can tell?