If....

Rating: 10/10 (25 December 2007)

If This Film Doesn't Get Any Oscar Nominations, I Will Be Surprised. This Year was really generous in terms of REALLY GOOD movies and this is one of them.
It has an unbelievable subtext, which is a rarity in latest Hollywood films. It talks about heroin not as a drug, but as a nice metaphor of modern culture. And the fact that the main characters are real life persons doesn't change anything. This to me is a movie more about America as a country, than just another gangster film. I still can't understand why people compare this movie with Scarface, for example.
I don't think that Denzel Washington will win something (my personal favorite is Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises), but I really hope that Ridley Scott will get an Oscar for this film, because he deserved it. He deserved it before, but this film shows who he really is.
Harris Savides - the DP of the film - is mind-blowing. What this guy does with colors and natural lighting is fantastic.
So this movie might actually win some golden guys for Ridley Scott & Harris Savides.