Of Fights and One's Identity

The Hurricane (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174856/) fails. Denzel Washington is as superlative as ever, and the aggression metamorphosing into calm inner strength is quite brilliantly executed. What really fails are the contradictions with the real life of Reuben Carter. If you scratch the surface of this movie, it falls leagues in your eyes on grounds of sheer authenticity. It seems that "artistic license" here has quite distorted a person that was not quite a pleasant character, pretty much throughout his life

Two of the best movies that I have ever seen are Trainspotting (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/) and Fight Club (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/). While the former stops at seeking one's identity and finding a modicum of sanity after working through a set of hilarious self-destructive capers, the latter is truly a dark movie about alter ego. The fact that your alter ego can actually surpass you in everything, and bring his plans to fruition, and finally break free of you, has more than a passing appeal in our unceasingly boring existences. Edward Norton's daily existence closely mirrors that of Neo in the Matrix' first installment. Who knows if a sheer genre can be carved out of the unexpected outcomes of monotony in urban life!