SilentLuminary Reviews

  Genre: Romance/Drama                Time : 2hrs           Director:   Jane Campion Quick summary : John Keats, an English poet, and his dressmaking neighbor, Fanny Brawne, have total disregard for each other. An unlikely romance develops and they fall deeply in love with each other. Every word that John Keats says is absolutely beautiful in my opinion and this movie captures them so wonderfully. As soon as the film starts there is an unmistakable feeling of floating and gentleness. It's heavily romantic and overall very very very pretty to look at with an overall theme of flowers blooming everywhere.  The story follows John Keats, a real poet, and Franny brown a seamstress. It unravels their love story over three years as they struggle against oppression and discontent towards their relationship.  There's an overall blissful nature in most scenes between the two, as they slowly fall de...

Genre: Thriller/drama         Time: 1h 41m         Director: Brad Anderson Quick summary : Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator who has not slept for months, experiences unusual occurrences at work and at home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him. This film gives very much the vibe of a nightmare that you are unable to escape. You follow the main Character, Trevor who comes across as very unstable and is simply going through each day on autopilot, void of any emotions. He keeps to himself, aside from when he visits his regular prostitute Stevie. In the beginning scene, he tells her that he hasn't slept in a year and that he is always on edge, but tries to comfort her by saying, "No one ever died of Insomnia."   This film has an overall grey, sickly vibe to it that makes it unsettling which adds to Christian bale's gaunt skinny body. It reflects how drained Trevor is feeling day in and o...