"Not Easily Broken" was not very easy to watch. It was quite awkward, and in my opinion, amateurish. It's about this married couple who are having trouble staying together. They kept showing why the union wasn't working but never really gave a reason why the pair should have been together in the first place. It's hard to care about what happens. Wood Harris is in it, if you're a fan of "The Wire". Geez, I mention that show in almost every one of these posts, don't I?
"Valkyrie" is a movie about Nazi officers who plot to kill Hitler. I couldn't care about these characters either. They're freaking Nazis. And I already knew they wouldn't succeed.
So those are a couple of big problems there. You can't identify with the protagonists and you already know they will fail. They should have explored these characters more and examine their emotional conflicts about what they thought was good and bad.
After being Nazis for so many years, did they suddenly just realize they were bad people? Were they afrraid that they would lose the war if they don't surrender? What did they plan to do if they were in control? Stuff like that. Or did I miss something?
The bigger question though is, what were audiences supposed to take from this? Were we supposed to idolize these Nazi failures? Why are we lionizing them? Seriously.
"My Blueberry Nights" is a film about a woman who wants to save money for a car. She works two jobs to accomplish this, at a bar at night and a diner in the daytime. Things happen at work, things that don't contribute much to the plot.
She goes from New York to Memphis to Las Vegas and back to New York. I don't really understand why she has to go through all that. It didn't seem to change her anyway. She's just the same old boring person she was at the beginning. It's almost as though they were just making things up as they went along. Not recommended.
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