Going to the pictures

 

Let's go to the movies

In the last month we often went to the pictures. I want to show you which films we've seen and which one I would really recommend you.

The first film we watched was “Still Alice” in the Silver Screen in Loughborough. The Silver Screen shows movies for everybody but especially for elderly people which rather like to go to the cinema at 11 o’clock in the morning or two o’clock in the afternoon. They show movies which are a little bit “older” and it only costs 3 Pounds and you get a free tea or coffee. I’ve heard about “Still Alice” when I still was in Germany and a famous German film critique recommended it. It is a movie about which you cannot stop thinking about after you saw it. Julian Moore is (as you all might know) a brilliant actress. In the story of the movie she gets the Alzheimer disease and she, her husband and all her children are really shocked because she works as a linguistic professor at university and lives a busy life. The trouble is that she passes this disease on to her children and she is so shocked because she is only fifty something years old. The chance of inheriting the disease is a 50 per cent chance. The film doesn’t embellish the disease. It shows how hard it is for her but also for her family to cope with the new situation. It is not a funny, light-hearted film it is rather a thoughtful film which chasten you. 

The second movie was different to the first one. It was “Minions2” and this movie is a must see for everybody who watched “Despicable Me”. It’s a funny and light-hearted story about an evil couple. You get to know how it all began with the Minions and how “difficult” it was to find their leader. The story of “Minions2” is based in London and e.g. they present the queen in a funny, witty way. You can watch this movie with your whole family or with a group of friends. The Minions are sweet and so funny they simply make you laugh. But I would also state that you don't need to go to the pictures to see this film you can also wait until it's on TV.

      .....and last but not least....

The third and last movie I saw lately was “The Choir” by François Girard We watched this film in Nottingham in “The Broadway”. I like Nottingham and this cinema a lot because the audience consists mostly of young people. There are a lot of students and the whole cinema is modern and it looks nice. I haven’t heard anything about it and so I was even more impressed by it.Not only the music but also the story is really catching. While watching you start to feel with the young boy whose single mother died by accident. He is ordered to stay at his father’s but he doesn’t want him because he is married for the second time and has got a new family. The young boy is commanded to live and learn in a Boy’s Choir School where he struggles with the conductor (Dustin Hoffman) who wants to push the young boy to discover and improve his unique talent. He has to try hard to meet the Choir Masters standards but in the end he manages well. He sings the most important solo in New York in front of a huge audience. It is a brilliant movie and it flashes you completely. I would really recommend it to everybody who is interested in good music and in movies which stay in mind. It was also one of the best films I saw in the last time.