Waste Land

Waste Land, The Documentary

Filmed over almost three years, Waste Land follows the well-known photographer Vik Muniz as he ventured from Brooklyn back to his homeland, Brazil.
He journeys to the worlds biggest rubbish dump site, Jadim Gramacho, located out side of Rio de Janeiro where he photographs a small group of ‘catadores’ (self designated pickers of recyclable materials).
He is inspired by these pickers and diverts from his original plans. He decides to recreated photographic images of the chosen ‘catadores’ out of the rubbish and recyclable materials.
It is both a sad and inspiring story, the lives of these pickers are very poor and it is moving to see how lives can be so unfortunate for some. But it is moving to see how the processes of recreating the images out of garbage can guide these people into a better life, and show them that there are more possibilities out there for them.
It is a must watch, the documentary is mostly in Brasillian but comes with subtitles and allows the viewer to see and feel the emotion through out the film.

And lets not forget how amazing the works of art are, to look at the photographs you would not think that the images have been created out of garbage. bellow are two of the final photographs.

The Blind Side

So I have finally managed to watch the Blind Side, a year and a bit to long later!
I was thoroughly pleased to find myself watching a funny, hearth wrenching and beautiful story.
Sandra Bullock steps out of her normal role into the serious role of Leigh Anne Touhy, which ended up winner her an Oscar for Best Actress.
Based on a true, driven from the 2006 novel by Michael Lewis, the Blind side maps the efforts of Leigh Touhy, wife of a hugely successful fast-food franchise owner, to make a difference and change a boy called Michaels life. Michael was brought up around drugs,, the ghetto and low expectations in life.
Leigh has a huge amount of goodness inside her, so when she sees Michael wondering the streets alone at night, and recognises him from her children’s Christian school where he was recently enrolled, she stops her car and inevitably changes his life from that moment on. In turn he changes the lives of everyone in the Touhy family for better or worse you will have to wait and see (that is if you have not already seen the film)
A gripping, enchanting and mesmerizing must see!

The Black Swan

The Black Swan directed by Darren Aronofsky
I have to admit that I was not sure what to expect when beginning this film, what I was met with was definitely not what I has been expecting, it was much better.
This psychodrama ballet is gripping, compelling and brilliant.
Staring Natalie Portman as the young beautiful and somewhat vulnerable and naive ballerina Nina Sayers. In order to play the role of a life time Nina has to delve deeper into her dark side which proves to be a great challenge to begin with until she is pushed beyond her own limits and finds a darker side than anyone had expected. The consequences are grave as she gets closer and closer to her big début.
The dark, thrilling, gripping and unpredictable film is a must watch.

The Kings Speach

The Kings speech
Written by David Seidler and directed by Tom Hooper, The Kings Speech is an extremely enjoyable and absorbing true life story about the stammering King George VI and his extravagant Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue.
The Roles are preformed with true theatrical brilliance by Colin Firth as King George, Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen and Geoffrey Rush as the fun speech coach Lionel.
Both Kings George and the Queen have to learn to loosen up and acknowledge and accept the life style of the normal English folk whilst King George struggles through a number of speech therapists before finding Lionel.
The story of King George over coming his stutter at the time of war when the country needed him the most is very well portrayed by all three main characters, but mostly by Colin Firth who went on to win an Oscar as well as many other awards for his spectacular talent in this particular film.
A great film and definitely worth watching if you have not already.