Take a look at this interactive guide to the year’s best picture nominees for the Oscars from the Guardian website. It gives you reviews, interviews, videos, news, etc., for each of the ten nominated films. And there are some great films here!
Here is the list:
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Inception
The Kids Are Alright
127 Hours
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
Toy Story 3
My choice? I liked The King’s Speech and The Social Network a lot, but the winner has to be Toy Story 3 or The Fighter – and I can’t decide which.
There is another film called ‘Confessions’. It is a Japanese film about a teacher whose four year old is killed by two of her students and she plots her revenge. Looking at the reviews it seems to be like Marmite ‘you either love it or you hate it’!
This is part of one of the reviews I have seen:
‘Confessions, directed by one of my favorite Japanese directors, Tetsuya Nakashima, is one of the most disturbing and depressing movies I have watched this year. It is a psychological thriller of a grieving teacher turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back the students who were responsible for her daughter’s death.
In the story, the major characters make confessions one by one. The more perspectives from which the murder is looked at, the more we know about the characters and their motives, which may remind the audience of A Stranger of Mine. As the story is unfolded, there are several surprising twists. While making confessions and sometimes touching on the subjects they are ashamed of, some characters refuse to accept the truth, tell lies and point the finger of blame at others to salve their conscience.
The director tries to explore the reasons why innocent children become evil teenagers with no conscience.’ (Kenji Chan from Hong Kong http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1590089/)
I particularly like the last sentence…because I do not believe anyone becomes an evil teenager…but a good teenager can do an evil thing. So I will go to see this one, I think, to get the old grey matter working!
Of the list, King’s Speech and Black Swan are my favourites.