14 Ocak 2008 Pazartesi

martian child


SUMMARY

A successful and a recently widowed science ficiton writer in the country John Cusack forms an unlikely family with a close friend and a young boy he adopts from the orphanege. The boy claims that he comes from Mars. He acts like he is a martian child. He takes photos all the time and he lives in a big box. He swings from the tubes. He designs plays. The writer and his sister believes that he may be really martian. However, one day the writer cannot tolerate the boys' acts. He got angry and says that he should act like the normal children as he is not a martian child. The child cannot stand and escapes from home. He climbs to a high building and he wants to go to Mars. As soon as the writer sees that the boy is not home he runs out to the building. He climbs to the barriers of the building and he tells that nobody would leave him again as his family did. He promises that he will always be with him whatever happens. Then, they come down. Afterwards, the boy starts to act like other children.

COMMENTS

The film makes me cry at the scenes that the boy is really humiliated by the other children. He is very cute and smart, but he is humiliated as he is not like the others. He does not deserve these.

Martian child is funny and dramatic as well. You can see that the boy acts like he is not living on earth. He belongs to a different category. At the same time, you watch the writer's effort to survive the boy and he is succesfull in this job.

EXPRESSIONS

David: Why did they send you here? You know, the Martians?
Dennis: To join a family and to learn human beingness.

David: I do know, there's no one on this planet that loves Dennis anymore than I do.

David: I don't want to bring another kid into this world. But how do you argue against loving one that's already here?

mr. brooks

SUMMARY

The succesful businessman and a loving father Mr. Brooks has an unusual habit which he cannot stop. He loves to kill people and takes photos of them. He has a murderous alter ago which satifsy himself, Marshall. Mr. Brook discovers that the only way to put an end to his life of crime is to kill again or die in this process. Again he kills a dancer couple and takes photos of them because he cannot escape from his ego. However, this time he is followed by a tough detective who is Tracy Atwood. She has highly professional skills. She collects the details and begins to chase him. This time Mr.Brooks thinks that there is a big problem he cannot return to his family life. Meanwhile, his daughter who is attending university, kills her boyfriend. Mr. Brooks has to erase this crime too. Finally, he returns to his family life and the detective cannot find out his murders.

COMMENTS

Mr. Brooks is a wealthy businessman, a father and a husband. However, he has a alter ago, which he cannot stop. At the end he succesfully solves this problem. This film makes the watchers take deep breaths as Mr. Brooks kills people harsly.

A man with an murderous alter ago, a woman who wants respect and love from his husband and a daugter who follows his father... Whatever goes wrong Mr. Brook has the ability to touch the truth.

Mr. Brook is a cold, and a brilliant man. Kevin Costner plays his role in a terriblly shocking way.

EXPRESSIONS

Detective Tracy Atwood: Jesse, you know what would make me feel really safe right now? If you got hit by a truck and died!

Mr. Earl Brooks: [talking about Jane] Well, we were right. She was hiding something.
Marshall: Pregnant's not all of it. She's hiding something, bigger. Something much bigger.
Mr. Earl Brooks: You think so?
Marshall: I know so... and so do you.

Mr. Earl Brooks:Before I was the Thumbprint Killer, Mr. Smith, I killed a lot of people in a lot of different ways.