Lord of War
Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) is part of a machinery without a conscience: The arms industry. To illustrate, I think, the soullessness of this machinery, the film opens with a vignette about the birth, life and death of a bullet. You see, from the bullet’s point of view, how it is manufactured, packaged, distributed, and ultimately, used. As with Andrew Niccol’s films, “Gattaca” and “The Truman Show,” Niccol personalizes…
Dr. Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) is in a beautiful garden, only to wake up and realize she’s been up for 23 hours straight in the ER/Trauma center of St. Matthews General Hospital in San Fransisco. My initial inclination was that this would be another hokey romantic comedy, and, well, to a certain extent, it is. But it’s…