Sonata for a Good Man

‘The Lives of Others’ tells a story of a secret policeman and a playwright in East Germany, in 1980s. The policeman has been ordered to spy on the writer and reports his daily life. He began on spying and does it every day and night, but during this job he becomes interested in the writer and tries to save his life by reporting false events.

The beginning minutes of the movie – which was honored as the best foreign language movie at this year’s Academy Awards (Oscar) – portraits a serious intelligence service officer who believes in his job and duty, with no emotions and respect to humanity. So choosing him as the devil part of the story is the easiest thing you can do in the first 10 minutes. Specially when he sleeps with a prostitute and asks her to stay more beside him, nobody will feel sorrow for the police officer. But you will blame yourself for this at the end of the story! The policeman shows his real nature during the movie.

The story is so sad; thinking about the lives of people that are being wasted by some dictators is so annoying and watching a woman who sleeps with a government to protect her man, is not an interesting thing. But the hope and honesty you find in the main characters make you happy. When at the end of the movie, a colleague tells to the policeman about the Berlin’s Wall fall, and he leaves his job and goes out, you can feel how much he is happy. You can feel he has been freed. Even if you’ve known that a lot of lives have been murdered during those years.

At the first half of the movie, the writer plays a song for his friend who has hanged himself. After that he says to his girlfriend, “Can someone who's listened to this music, really listened, still be a bad person?”
And we know that there’s a police officer who has really listened to this music.

In Love with Paris

Wow! ‘Paris Je T’aime’ was amazing. A collection of love stories in Paris should be an interesting movie, and in fact, it is. The movie contains several (sorry, I didn’t count them!) short movies by various directors with different characters. The only thing that has stuck these stories together is Paris… and love, of course.
You can not look at these kinds of collections as a unique feature film. The only thing that producers should do is to invite good directors, choose good stories and put every story at the right place.

But for me, the best part was Coen brothers’. They tell a story of a foreigner/tourist in subway, waiting for the train. He’s reading a book on Paris and looking around to know it better, suddenly his attention goes to a young couple, kissing and flirting in front of him. He stares at them and it makes the boy angry. At this moment, Coens’ genius begins to make a strange story! If you’ve ever seen their movies, you know what I mean. And Steve Buscemi is great at portraying the main character; in fact he is a master in playing strange roles!

Another story I liked, was ‘Quartier de la Madeleine’ directed by Vincenzo Natali, starring Elijah Wood. Wood is a young boy who is walking in a solitude street. Then he hears a noise and sees a female vampire drinking a dead body’s blood. He tries to hide himself and watch the scene, but in a sudden move, he makes a noise and the vampire finds him. But she (I told before, the vampire is female and so attractive!) ignores to kill Wood and sucks his blood…

These two stories are my favorites in this movie, but there are other good stories, for example that story of the blind boy and Natalie Portman or that one with Oscar Wild’s grave! I think ‘Paris Je T’aime’ is a good movie that worth to be watched. And at the end it can make you a Paris-lover!

Always a rat is left

I really enjoyed watching ‘The Departed’. It’s a great movie and I’m really glad that Scorsese got his first Oscar prize for this movie. He has made a very entertaining thriller that can easily attract you. Scorsese knows how to tell a story and it’s the most important thing in ‘The Departed’.

The movie is about two young policemen, one of them (Matt Damon) has been grown up by the head of gangsters and now he is his spy in police department. And the other one (Leonardo DiCaprio), who has come from a mobster family, becomes a police insider in mobster’s gangs. The entire story is about these two guys, and after the half time passed, they try to find each other. But you know, it’s just the top layer of this movie. I think that ‘The Departed’ is about the truth and lie, and the way we choose for our life.

At the beginning of the movie, Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) tells young Colin Sullivan (Damon), “A man makes his own way”. I think that this is the most important quote of the movie.