Movie article Good versus evil is presented as another worldview that competes with other cosmologies, yet there is something intrinsically true to life about good versus evil. Humans tend to understand it implicitly as if ingrained on conscience and morality. A moral person knows the difference between right and wrong. Repentant people know they have…

What attracted me to the first Taken (2008) film–funnily enough for an action film–is that the story revolved around real issues, the (tragic) contemporary trafficking of humans sold into slavery and prostitution. However, action films often have an issue somewhere in there, but trafficking is a subject that is rarely raised at the movies and…

DVD movie commentary In Everest (2015, USA), New Zealander Jan Hall (Keira Knightley), who is pregnant, fears for her husband’s safety. Jan tells hubby Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) to be there for her newborn in six weeks, but Rob is on an adventure and for him a safe adventure is always uncertain. Staying alive is…

DVD movie commentary If being older is an art, would you buy a body double? Regaining youthful ways and appearances is taken a step further than reality in Self/less (2015, USA). The movie brings youthfulness into more of the conceptual realm rather than a true reflection of reality. However, the movie’s focus on living younger…

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