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David McK (3695 KP) rated Total Recall (1990) in Movies

Jun 21, 2019 (Updated Sep 16, 2019)  
Total Recall (1990)
Total Recall (1990)
1990 | Action, Sci-Fi
8
7.6 (71 Ratings)
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Forget the rather pointless Colin Farrell-starring 2012 remake, this is the original (and best) of the 2 movies to share the name, itself based on the Philip K Dick short story 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' - it bears little in common with that story, however, other than the idea of false memory implants!

Starring a pre-T2 Arnold Schwarzenegger alongside Sharon Stone and Michael Ironside, the main plot of this is actually open to interpretation: are these events actually happening, or is Arnie's character of Douglas Quaid dreaming them? Every thing that happens after he visits Rekall is left deliberately open to interpretation, even down to the film ending with a white out instead of a black out ...
  
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Born To Be Blue (2016) in Movies

Sep 26, 2017  
Born To Be Blue (2016)
Born To Be Blue (2016)
2016 | International, Drama, Musical
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Ethan Hawke is fantastic (0 more)
The back and forth between flashbacks and the film within a film is confusing at times (0 more)
Seriously depressing, a masterful musician and his addiction
As a fan of jazz great Chet Baker, Born to be Blue is an honest and brutal portrayal of the trumpeter, especially during his worst time battling addiction. After a mysterious but vicious assault Baker, portrayed by Ethan Hawke, he is left unable to play and kicked out of the industry on parole.

While it is mostly accurate, his love interest is an amalgamation of his three ex-wives and so there is a bit of artistic licence. And at times it flips into flashbacks of black and white, which is a film in a film, when Baker played himself in his biopic. But mostly it's his relationship with heroin which he took until the end of his life in 1988, though the film only concentrates on his growing insecurity between 1950 and 1960.

It's sad knowing how it ends, too many talents lost in the haze of drugs.
  
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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated The Boy in the Dress in Books

Jul 2, 2019  
The Boy in the Dress
The Boy in the Dress
David Walliams | 2009 | Children, Young Adult (YA)
10
9.8 (4 Ratings)
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This is a good well rounded book for young folks
I really enjoyed this book. I was sceptical due to the author already being established and thought perhaps his celebrity status helped him sell book but I'll take my hat of to Walliams. This is an enjoyable little read. The language is simple and I enjoyed how current the book is. The book really demonstrates the difference between black and white and colour (colour being different and standing out from the norm).
Uniform is also a main theme in the book and very obviously gender and social acceptance. Walliams does a good job at showing that sexual preference is not linked to dress and that discrimination is wrong. In this book the child is able to experience how ludicrous gender representation by dress is by dressing the full football team up in ladies clothing, this normalises it.
The intrusive narrator who may be Walliams himself, also gives hints throughout the book about his own desire to cross dress.
Good book.