COCKY AND PATHETIC

True stories can be a powerful material for movie scripts, but not always. Terrorist attack at the Boston marathon 2013 could’ve made a great movie, but Peter Berg's hasty adaptation starring Mark Wahlberg just isn’t a good story.

It is really emotionally shattering from time to time, but most of the celluloid is just eaten by tacky American patriotism and artificial hope boosting. On the positive side, there will be some really tense and well directed action sequences, but that’s it.

„Patriot’s day” is story about one of those true events that needs a greater historical distance before transcribing into a movie script.

PATRIOT’S DAY – 4/10

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GOING SOMEWHERE

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French multiculturality is one of the biggest open questions inside this country’s society. Marseille school is the backdrop for ”The Class” and it is a volatile backdrop, with every possible nationality and race imaginable involved.

Although there is no plot in the classical term, the script is invigorated by the destructive dialogues between 15-year olds and their teacher that tries to maintain control over them. All the major issues of these kinds of society’s sub-units are tackled: racism, nationalism, local-patriotism, poverty, inclusion and harassment.

”The Class” is more of a documentary than a ”classical” long-feature film, and a good one as well.

THE CLASS - 7/10