Saturday 20 December 2014

My Movies...

BIG FISH
Like Mr Toad said, the best stories aren't the true ones. They're the 'what-would-have-happened-if-I'd-thought-of-it-then-instead-of-ten-minutes-later' stories, because they are the ones which are truly our own. A movie about truth and falsehood, and why we prefer false.

THE NEVERENDING STORY
Truth, it seems, is my thing. Michael Ende's strange tale brought to life in the German-American movie about how stories get into our minds and make their own truths there ...

CIDER HOUSE RULES
Rachel Portman's magical music and Mr Caine's quirk bring to life this tale of medical ethics, telling how there are different truth-rules for different places