Since it’s summer break, I figured I’d add 3 more films to our “3 movies you should watch” series. Our films, in order, are The Philosophers, Freedom Writers and Gravity. We’ll give you short summaries and small introductions one by one. Enjoy in advance.
Freedom Writers
The other day while browsing Tumblr I came across a gif. If I find the gif or a similar image, I’ll share it here. On Tumblr someone had also written something like “This movie was so good. I loved it.” under it, and when the conversation I saw in that gif affected me a little, I added the film to my watch list. Waiting for film recommendations from someone is hard work — every once in a while I find films like this by accident, and they really turn out good. Let me give a summary without spoilers. In America, as you know, there’s the concept of gangs. These can be multiplied — Blacks, Asians, Whites and so on. It’s a story telling the life of students in a school in such a situation, and them coming together again. By the end of the film I realized it was based on a true story. The lesson I took from it is that you always have to be honest. Lies won’t get you anywhere. The lead is Hilary Swank. The film also has a 7.5 IMDB rating from 43,850 votes — and that’s really a good rating on IMDB. The film is from 2007. I’ll share a few photos and a video with you below. Enjoy. Highly recommended. Finally, I give the film 8.5/10.
The Philosophers
The film’s name is Philosophers. The start wasn’t all that interesting, but it got super in the middle and then ended at a terrible level. They could have arranged a nicer ending. And the screenplay was really quality work.
As for the plot: in an international school in Jakarta, a smart but mysterious philosophy teacher challenges his twenty graduating seniors by putting them through one final thought experiment to complete the requirements for graduation. The exam will be the hardest one they’ve ever seen. Using only the power of logic, the students must figure out what’s valuable in an underground bunker and govern the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse. The shelter only fits ten people, which means death has not been chosen for these.
Before starting the movie, they told me the IMDB rating was 5.1 — I thought when I got to the middle that they’d rated it too low. Turns out you needed to wait until the end to comment. They ended the film with an impossible finale just like Lost. Aside from that, I do recommend watching it. But don’t expect something super at the end. It doesn’t have a particularly interesting ending. They tied the plot back to our old Turkish films.
Gravity
Gravity — in Turkish, Yer Çekimi. Our film actually shows similarities in subject to Interstellar, which I mentioned before. Both films’ main setting is planets, the universe and space. The film has a 7.9 rating from half a million IMDB votes.
