Film review: In Bruges

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In Bruges

Year: 2008

Director:  Martin McDonagh

Writer:  Martin McDonagh

Stars:  Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/

I try not to give any spoiler, but I think this movie has a lot of point to think about, and I might mention some but I won't mention the ending of course.

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It's really not the kind of movie I expected to see when I saw it. The Chinese name of the movie is 殺手沒有假期, which means "A hitman has no holiday" or something like that.... so I thought it might be a funny movie like hitmans going on a trip and something goes wrong and they have to fix it. But it's not. It's totally not.

First of all it's a rather calm movie. Not too many excitements, just Colin Farrel and Brendan Gleeson wondering around Bruges (Google it if you don't know where it is, or ask a Belgian :D), and nothing happened! It raised my curiosity successfully, but it's a little boring at the same time. But as it proceeded, more issue raised and it made me want to know what's next.

It's smooth (but some may consider it too slow) and no thing left unexplained, but it left some things to the audiences to think about in there lives, it's deep. And I also found an interesting fact that there were a lot of keywords in this movie and they have been mentioned many times. Vietnam? Dwarfs? Black and white? It's something we can think about after we watch the movie. These keywords all contain some meaning behind them, or stereotype.

And the ending, was an open question, which I think was a good one. I will consider it a good movie because it's not that boring after all, and it made you think. Hitmans are humans, and humans are vulnerable.  Lives are precious, and mistakes are common, but don't blame yourself too much and don't give up. That's the spirit.

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Okay it's pretty hard to write a review, and it's even harder not to write in my mother language. I guess I should give the spoiler next time (haha sorry) because I can explain the things I want to talk about more clearly.

Well, everyone was a beginner before becoming an expert, right? :)