An American action film directed by David O. Russell, starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo and Jack McGee.
A boxer has problems with being managed by his family. The manager mother roots for the trainer brother who used to be a boxer, but is now a crackhead. The brother goes to jail and the boxer gets new management, but then the brother gets out of prison.
This was alright. It had it's moments, but was generally not so hot. The plot was interesting, but a little complex. The characters were developed well, but there were so many of them. Camera-work looked fine and pacing seemed right for the scenes. I was just not overly impressed. Overall, middle of the road. I rate this o.k.
A drama by David O Russell, starring Jason Schwartzman.A young man is working for an activist group and goes to some holistic detectives about a coincidence in his life. He meets a man through them who is having similar problems and together they try to figure out what's going on. Meanwhile, his business enemy is in the same program.I thought that the style and plot were very unique. They mirrored the uncertain nature of the characters' questions about reality. The production value was good and I liked the characters. In simple fact, reality is not the 5 sense world that we think it is. Our minds just present it to us in that fashion. It's actually a vibrational system with many things vibrating at the same or different frequencies. Most of an atom (what everything is made of) is small particles vibrating with large spaces between them. Hence, us being made of atoms makes us mostly empty space. It only seems solid because our 5 senses interperate it that way. Aside from the facts of life, I rate this good because of the entertainment value.
