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minmin
21-02-2009, 01:51
Pu - 239

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o prwtagwnisteas tou Dead Man's Shoes..kai deuteragwnisteas tou Stoned...

i Rwsia....

o ploutos tis...

ta lamogia tis...

kai i zwh pou afinoume pisw...

kataplhXtikia taineia...gia mena to Fountain shaked by Guy Ritchie

"Everything decays" says the main character, a poor man who was inadvertently poisoned while working at a Russian Nuclear facility. Knowing that he is dying, he sets out with a stolen quantity of PU 239, a weapons grade form of radioactive material.

To attempt to make something meaningful come out of the certain end of his life, he sets out for Moscow, where he incompetently attempts to sell the lethal material to who ever can read his hand-held sign, which simply says "PU 239." To the civilized mind this scene is more remnicient of the American Wild West than a modern scene in a country as developed as Russia. To sell radioactive material, you just write the product name on a sign and hold it out for everyone on the street to observe? The protagonist does so as innocently as if he were selling vegtables at a roadside stand. As the plot races on, one gets the opinion that Russia IS the Wild west. Life is cheap, very cheap!

With that first clumsy attempt at converting the material to cash for his family (wife and young son), he collides with an unimaginative street hood. Together, the dying man, and the incompetent criminal approach multiple other criminals with the offer to make them rich. However, the Biblical warning "there is no honor among thieves" plays out as the thugs eventually kill first the hood that "represents" him, and then he, himself.

The bullet from the Moscow criminal did not truly kill him, however. The truth is that he was dead from the inception of the story. The product is death on wheels. In the movie, it is referred to as having a 40,000 year half life. Be this as it may, it is not nose candy. However, reaping what he sowed, the man that shot the dying man to death, then stupidly, snorts from the vile, and the story soon ends. The movie plays like a parable. Who among us can be wise enough to understand the deeper meanings that this story reveals?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472156/synopsis

SpiritCrusher
21-02-2009, 08:09
Tο εντιντ έχει spoilers. Είτε βάλτο σε spoiler ή άλλαξε τη λέξη edit με spoiler.

Candiru
05-04-2009, 20:40
καταπληκτικη ταινία, πολύ γέλιο με το πάθημα των μαφιόζων στο τέλος. Μαύρη κωμωδία θα την χαρακτήριζα. Και τραγωδία και γέλιο. Φοβερή και η μεταφορική ερμηνεία της διτής φύσης της ύλης (ύλη/κύμα):

Light is a particle and a wave. This is hard to understand, how a thing can be two things at once. But a woman is also both a particle and a wave. She's a wave when you see her reach down to pull a shell from the sea and you feel her beauty pass through you like electrical current. She's a particle when her hair brushes your face and her hands push into yours.