Five best films of the twenty-first century

All that is old has an undeniable power of the present, as the passage of years lends unparalleled elegance to all things, even for a neglected vase that has been passed for a few centuries and is preserved in museums. Likewise, as long as time is a basic criterion for judging art, it is the most capable of identifying the wheat from the chubby, but the wheat is lost in oblivion, and the chubby remains in our memories always. This exaltation of the old matter of the popular taste has leaked, so there are examples and expressions in all cultures that lead to that meaning, so we call the Arabs the past the title of "the time of beautiful art", or "beautiful time", and we find a similar expression in English saying: "the old is gold" (Old is Gold). But isn't that a kind of injustice to artwork today? Do we have to wait a hundred years to determine whether or not what is being presented today is noteworthy?

This great celebration of the old at the expense of the talk was clearly evident in a 2015 BBC survey, in which it sought to determine the best hundred American films ever made, according to critics and cinematographers, to be surprised that the final list included only six films made in the twenty-first century . This prompted the BBC to carry out a referendum of a different kind one year later, in which it asked 177 press critics around the world to identify the 100 best films of the 21st century.

The Foundation said in its statement, which presented the final list: "Today, we find that filmmaking, whether with huge or small budgets, is thriving as it has always been. Is time determining what is worth staying? Maybe. But we wanted to prove this time that the century The twenty-first has presented to us films so far that will stand the test of time, and we will continue to think about them and talk about them only if we give them the opportunity and see them as they deserve. " [1] This list has special significance, being the first of its kind, and gives it additional weight as it is published by the BBC, one of the most important and long-standing press institutions around the world. Below, we'll review the first five movies on the list.

Mulholland Drive

Ironically, the movie "Mulholland Drive", which is above the BBC's list of 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century, did not actually start out as a movie in the first place. After the success of "Twin Peaks", "ABC" decided to give director David Lynch the opportunity to direct a new series. Enthusiastic, Lynch immediately began directing the first of the episodes of this series, and when it ended, the episode did not find the approval of network administrators, they found its atmosphere too dark, slow rhythm, and difficult to understand. That episode remained buried in one of the drawers, and you might never have seen the light, had it not been for another studio director who had the idea and his lynch for the money needed to turn it into a feature film.

The directors of "abc" were not completely wrong. "The Road to Malholland" was the furthest thing from the Jamahiriya - it achieved a very modest success at the box office - and perhaps the same reasons that prevented it and without the ordinary viewer are what made it popular with critics and cinema lovers, intellectuals or specialists. The film does not have a harmonious and clear narrative line, but rather many scattered lines that do not necessarily coincide with each other and most of them have no logical end. In the baseline, we watch Betty, a rising actress trying to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous star; When she enters her aunt's house where she will live in Hollywood, the first thing she finds is a strange woman who got out of a car accident last night and no longer remembers anything. Betty tries in good faith to help her, and together they seek to know her identity and her past; That start gives us the impression that what we will see is a mystery or crime movie that will end in the dissolution of the knot at the end and the knowledge of the woman’s identity, but the more we sink into events, the more mysterious we know of what we imagined, and that whoever manipulates Lynch here are not heroes, but we, the viewers.

The film on more than one level is a complicated game, in which Lynch pushes us in a certain direction, and when we think that we have come to understand what he wants, he takes us in another opposite way. Perhaps this complex construction of the film is the reason why it remains so far alive in the memory of movie lovers and critics, unlike films that may provide us with a superficial enjoyment while watching and then forget about it immediately, it plays "Malholland Road" on another level altogether, as critic Andy Klein said (2) ], It is impossible to comprehend it since one observation, and then it becomes the first time that you see it is a pure invitation to see it again with a less emotional mind, because it has become known all the strange curves that the plot will take, and become more able to meditate and think about the meaning of what you see. They saw him over and over again, there is no real agreement about what the movie means, what makes it like a puzzle that has no single solution for it, and it invites you to re-establish its meanings and interpret it again.

In The Mood For Love

In Hong Kong in the 1960s, crowded with people and without warmth, Mr. Zhao and Mrs. Chan move into two adjacent homes. Although they are both married, they remain alone most of the time. Mr. Zhao's wife and Mrs. Chan's husband seem very busy, always at work or traveling. Mr. Zhao and Mrs. Chan meet frequently at random after that, and through some sneaky notes, they find that each other's husband cheats on them. In a state of shock and sadness, and in an attempt to overcome their betrayal, a deep friendship begins to grow between them, but that friendship soon takes on another course completely.

This film represents a variation on director Wong Kar-wai's tune: unity and the search for love in the vast isolation of the city, the one we have heard before in other films such as "Changing Express" and "Happy Together", but it has not been corrected in any of his previous works. On "in a clear mood for love" or its aftermath with such sweetness that we find it. Here, a man and a woman fall in love with a child born of sorrow and have no fate but loss, find themselves under the watchful eye of society, and the most powerful voice of their conscience, which they refuse to turn into traitors, and then there is no room for them to talk honestly or reveal. They were completely robbed of the opportunity to communicate through words - they would feel conscientious if they did - and they would talk about everything else in the film, from lighting, music, framing and colors, to become "in a clear mood for love" in the form of a poetic document about love that is formulated without words, and feelings expressed by faint gestures. Whispers are afraid to be heard.

There Will Be Blood

On more than one level, the movie "There Will Be Blood" appears to be a darker modern version of the fascinating twentieth century "Citizen Kane". Both films revolve around a man who climbs from the bottom of the peaks of glory, power and money, but that ascension only comes to the remains of many, and is driven by a mind that does not understand the meaning of meaning and only cares to reach wherever he wants.

In "There will be blood", led by Daniel Plainview, a man whose family or origin is unknown, who travels to the south and digs the earth in search of oil. In a terrible accident while excavating, a companion loses his life, he loses his ability to walk straight and the accident makes him limp. But that does not stop his relentless pursuit of the treasures of black gold that take place in the veins of the earth, so he advanced despite his injury, and he adopted his companion, and began traveling from city to city to seduce its people with the promises of wealth and money if they sold them what they own of the land; Promises of course, that he evaporates soon after obtaining what he wants, to increase with the years the wealth, cruelty, and isolation from humans.

Critic Peter Travis says about this movie: "Daniel Blainview is the hidden face of the American success story, or if you want to extend the metaphor to America itself, then he rapes and plundered in the name of achieving progress, and ends up being alienated from the human race who for a long time forgotten being a member of it. ". [3]

Spirited Away

When the silkworm asks Alice "Who are you", Alice does not seem to really know the answer, since since I entered the rabbit hole that morning, nothing is the same, the little girl went through many changes that made her lose the ability to know who she was. Chihiro appears to be in the same confusion when someone asks her about her name and she answers: Bsen, the name that witch Yubaba gave her and not her name, she has already begun to forget her real name, and with it her origin and world.

Like Alice, Chihiro's journey started normally, so that morning she was sitting in the back seat of her parents' car with her marks of grumbling; They will move to a new location, and Chihiro does not seem really happy with this change. But one turn in the wrong direction will take her and her parents to a faraway place, in which all the rules of our world will be destroyed. On the doorstep, her parents will succumb to the temptation of delicious food, then voraciously add him to a pair of pigs, and then Chihiro is forced into that strange land until she regains them again and is able to return to her world.

"The Hijacked" movie has a seemingly simple construction, where the heroine enters a strange place and faces a number of challenges in order to achieve her ultimate goal in leaving and her parents are safe, but in the folds of that simple structure, director Hayo Miyazaki set a world of small details that made her material from fantasies and dreams. These fantasies and dreams do not shave away from reality, but take from it their focal point, as the film promises a symbolic journey that takes the details of that reality and puts it in strange curves. As Miyazaki himself said, the film promises a commentary on what he saw as Japan's gradual loss of identity as a result of its surrender, as the Chihiro parents, to seducing capitalism and falling into the trap of the primary driver of that economic system: greed. Hence there was no better savior, for parents, and for a world and heritage threatened with vanishing than an innocent little girl who finds a return to where she is more precious than gold.

Boyhood

Of all the films on the BBC’s full list, there may be no more experimental film than “Saba”, as it did not do anything before it. Through it, director Richard Lanclar succeeded in picking up strings of time, and began to trace what his passage over the body and into the soul did.

Over the course of twelve years, Lancaster has been portraying the boy Elar Coultrain, from the age of six until the age of eighteen, along with the main film actors, to create a film that depicts what the years actually look like. In a snapshot of what we see Elar at eight, and after half an hour of the movie, he will have completed twelve years. The years will be shortened in minutes. Just as scientists resort to miniaturizing huge images of space to see them better, Lanceler does the same with time.

With a project that spans more than a decade, you can't really be sure about anything. Lancelter began filming the movie with nothing on his mind except the broad strings and the end. As for everything that happens in the middle, he left a filling task to take over the time himself and the passage of his passage through a deeper knowledge of ourselves. Leaving Lancler in each of the main characters, including the hero’s Mason character, is a great space for the actors to draw themselves, drawing on their personal lives and their experiences and the people they met, to build through them the characters they represent on the screen. In this, Lanktler chose to divert his attention from the great moments that we all give our attention to, and focus more on a small one that we often overlook, but that constitutes a whole of our ages, so that the movie “Saba” comes out to us, the closest thing we could see so far to the passage of time and our journey as human beings in life It was taken by a camera.