10 Best Movies of 2010

Jan 02, 2011 17:51

10. Last Train Home
At first, I resisted this documentary and its apparent intent to edify for us just how good we've got it by depicting the plight of a pair of migrant Chinese factory workers who can only afford to go home to see their children once a year.  But once I started viewing the film as simply an anthropological remake of March of the ( Read more... )

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confuzzledmog January 5 2011, 06:22:55 UTC
Happy to see Exit Through the Gift Shop on your list and can't wait to see Blue Valentine!

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hork January 5 2011, 16:10:29 UTC
You've seen Exit Through the Gift Shop?

I think you'll like Blue Valentine, except it's nothing like Once or Before Sunrise/set, so I'm not really sure what you're expecting.

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confuzzledmog January 5 2011, 16:39:30 UTC
Yes, I saw it (not in theaters) and it was awesome.

I thought it was a sequel to Once with different actors, or am I wrong? I'm expecting them to meet in a bookstore and catch up on old times after they broke up. He's married now and she works for an environmental agency...they start to reminisce about their past love affair and struggle with whether they should break off their current ties and start anew. But they do all of this in song, right? And then a fortune teller lady shows up and tells them they should be together, so they start to go back to her place and a kitty shows up. They thought that would be a good ending so they stopped the movie right there. I don't know why I want to see it when I already know what happens.

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hork January 5 2011, 17:06:14 UTC
The kitty is a metaphor for the entire point of the movie, duh! You might think you already know what happens, but the kitty will blow your mind.

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confuzzledmog January 5 2011, 16:40:29 UTC
P.S. You forgot to put Black Swan, the best movie of the year, on your list!!

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hork January 5 2011, 17:04:46 UTC
Black Swan would be like #12. I admired it more than loved it.

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