The 10th Mofo Movie Hall of Fame

you need to see it!
but just to warn you-you`ll prob be majorly depressed afterwards aparantly thats what i like
theres nothing that i dont like about it,and the soundtrack is AMAZING (eventhough x amount of commercials etc have tried to ruin it)

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Sorry Guap, we've already started and I don't want to add more people after it started up.

There will be a Film Noir Hof, a Silent Hof and perhaps others in the near future, that you could join.

Its ok.

I agree with what everyone else is saying about Lilya 4-Ever, in that it's a powerful movie, and a tough watch, but it took me a while to kind of "warm up" to Lilya. Right from the beginning of the movie, she's a normal, obnoxious teenager, so it's hard to be sympathetic to her. (She reminded me of the kids that I didn't like back in high school because they seemed to think that the world revolved around them, and they had a sense of entitlement.) I'm not saying that I disliked her, but I didn't really like her either, at least until she became friends with Volodya, and her personality seemed to change. And I'm also not saying that she deserved what happened to her, because nobody deserves that.



One of the things I wondered about after I finished watching the movie was if the mother of the real Lilya ever found out what happened to her daughter after she left her behind.

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Yeah, i noticed. The most minor one kept annoying me just becaue it kept happening. It kept being donit instead of don't. haha.

I've never even seen Requiem For A Dream and i managed to get really into its soundtrack when i was younger

Did this actually happen? Just wondering because it didn't mention it in the Wiki page or Topsy's post.

If I find Lilya I will watch it soon....after McCabe of course

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Not sure if you don't want to watch it on Youtube, i thought it was a good copy.

She likes that even more than I do.

The real mother wrote a letter to the goverment/social services after leaving for American saying she could no longer take care of "Lilya" and she no longer wanted her.
I havent found anything about her mothers reaction to her death- i dont know how it works if someone gives up their right to their child-wether they try to inform them. and i dont know if she left for america with her own name and passport so they might not have located her. im sure atleast reporters tried.

As they said in the movie, the mother's request was not legally-binding. I personally don't think she deserves to know anything about her daughter though.

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^^ true,but at the same time she should know how much her daughter suffered because she left her.

I never felt like she was a normal teenager, I think because of the extreme poverty. It seemed obvious to me immediately that she just wanted to leave where she was for a better life. I didn't think she acted much different when she was off to Sweden. I could really see the joy in her when she thought she was going to America. Nothing about her seemed entitled to me but maybe I missed some details.

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She acted bratty at times, but so do most teens.

I think the director (thanks camo for making me take notice of that) is really good at creating a very realistic mood and settings as is he/or the castingdirector at casting young talent who are great at being so..natural.

teens ARE obnoxious as gbg says,but i feel didnt really take too much notice of that,shes just seemed real to me.
its the same thing in show me love.i WAS elin when i was a teen.spot on.apart from the lesbian thing wait.... actually when i think back......

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Really liked this a lot. Don't think there was anything exceptional about it, it was just very entertaining and funny. I had no idea what this was about going in, and it took me til about 15 minutes in to get a basic idea of what was going on. Wasn't expecting a fugitives hold a couple prisoner film basically I laughed a lot during this, there was some really great lines "He told me i was mentally retiring or something like that" Dickie was my favourite character. The actors voice alone was great, couple that with the hilarious lines and delivery and he was excellent. Really liked Teresa too. The way she acted made me feel a bit bad for George at times, wasn't that crazy about his character though. I loved Dickey and Teresa together actually . How when she started to try to talk to him he just continued to treat her like an idiot. "You are digging it for him?" I'm digging for gold you balloon" . I loved Dickie's death scene, it was so hilarious seeing George cowering with his wife attempting to shoot him.

I don't really know what else to say, it was just a well done entertaining, funny film. Great nomination Cricket. Glad to have seen it because you rarely hear it mentioned as one of Polanski's best.

Glad you liked it, Camo. I nominated because Polanski is known for more serious films like Chinatown, The Pianist, Knife in the Water, The Apartment Trilogy, Death and the Maiden, etc. He has done comedy with movies like Carnage and The Fearless Vampire Killers, but I think this is much better and more of a surprise.

im going to watch it tonight,ive only seen the fearless vampire killers from him-only because of sharon tate though.