With the release of the trilogy Blueprint III, Hip-Hop mogul Shawn Carter, a.k.a., Jay-Z, is making mature music.
“We had such potential, such promise.”
In the movie 9, Burton and Acker offer the audience a window to the end of humanity: battle between man and machine reduces the planet Earth to a wasteland of human carnage and twisted metal.
A Challenge for Our Generation, by Our Generation
“Most people don’t expect you to understand what we’re going to tell you in this book. And even if you understand, they don’t expect you to care. And even if you care, they don’t expect you to do anything about it. And even if you do something about it, they don’t expect it to last. We do.”
A common theme of the films released in 2007 was how people deal with consequences of their actions. It can be seen in films as different as No Country for Old Men, Juno, and even The Simpson’s Movie (to a certain extent). But the film which deals with the theme most blatantly and beautifully is Joe Wright’s Atonement: a story of three lives torn apart by a lie.
“The only thing you can plan on in life is being surprised,” concludes advice columnist Dan Burns (Steve Carell). As credits are displayed and the final shot of film runs paired against the low humming of Norwegian Indie pop music, Dan in Real Life leaves its audience surprised.
The first word heard from Josh Brolin's character, Llewelyn Moss, in No Country for Old Men is a prophetic, "S***." The simple curse, uttered by the plot's catalyst, characterizes the film's action perfectly. It all begins when Moss stumbles across a hauntingly silent battlefield in barren Texas.