Released on: 2007
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Water For Elephants – Review
Source: FilmShaft - Water For Elephants – Review
Water For Elephants is based on a best selling book by Sara Gruen and stars Robert Pattinson as Jacob, poised on the edge of life, about to take his final exams that will enable him to become a qualified vet. The film is told in flashback and we meet Jacob as an old man when he embarks on telling his story to a young circus manager. It segues into 1931 quite seamlessly, and although it's a much used technique, it fits the tone and style of the film perfectly.
The shadow of the Great Depression and Prohibition eras weighs quite heavily on the film, taking place only two years after the now infamous Wall Street Crash. Jacob is ready to take his first steps into the working world and then, tragedy strikes and his parents are killed in a car accident. He doesn't finish»
- Cheryl Carter
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Osama bin Laden: Say goodnight to the bad guy. Also, the great movie the search for him could make
It was the metaphor that hit everyone in the eye, the one that a handful of observers dared to come out and say. Yet to even think it made you feel a little crummy. It wasn’t just that the cataclysmic horror of 9/11 “looked like a movie.” It was that it looked like an over-the-top flying-metal-and-fireball action movie, the Die Hard/Jerry Bruckheimer kind, the kind that our whole culture has been addicted to since the 1980s. That perception of 9/11 as big-screen-action-disaster-gone-real, widespread though it was, seemed rather indefensible at the time, because to say it, or even to think it,»
- Owen Gleiberman
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