Last King of Scottland
Just saw this last night. Pretty good. A superb performance by Forest Whitaker. Not sure if I buy the key plot point where:
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Also not sure if I buy the last key plot point where:
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Other than those shaky plot points, it was good, with fun tension and with excellant performances. Thoughts?
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
It's a grim and depressing movie.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
A cautionary tale? Nope. Just ugly.Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
It's okay.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I gave it 3 stars on netflix.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
I thought it was pretty good.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Would get 3.5 out of 5 normally but gets an extra half point just cos Gillian Anderson was in it.
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McCavoy was v good, but Whittaker was exceptional ...
I'm not quite sure what role Anderson was supposed to play in the story....
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The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Quite liked the movie. Thought it did an ok (but not perfect) job of making the viewer feel the tremendous swings of Amins nature - from crazy happy to crazy angry.
Perfect example of this working well is the scene where they meet. "Scottish... I LOVE Scotland."
"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
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