My Favourite Movie of all Time

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2017)

What's amazing to me about this movie, is that it managed to fully captivate my attention, despite the fact that I generally don't like drama movies, and have ADD. Usually I need horror films with jump scares, or high action films with lots of loud fighting to keep my attention. But in some mysterious way, the director of this film made even the slowest most non eventful parts incredibly interesting to me.
In all, I can't think of a single scene that didn't deserve to be in the movie. There are some rare parts that don't seem entirely essential to the story to me. But those parts are still great just on their own, and would stand on their own as short films.
One thing that really makes this movie unique for me is the strength of its female lead protagonist. Strong aggressive female characters in other movies almost always feel forced to me. Like they are trying too hard to be seen as respectable leaders, but actually just come off as jerks. I don't think I am sexist, but I might be on some subconscious level. However, the actor playing Jackie Brown plays the part of an aggressive strong protagonist like a natural. The fact that she is a woman taking on an authoritative and strong role, against violent and strong men, didn't stand out to me at all during the movie. It all felt natural. Jackie still comes off as a nice likable woman, and not a jerk at all.
If I were forced to come up with just one criticism, it would be that it wasn't long enough. The story is completed by the end, in a satisfying way. But I cared so much about the characters that I wanted to keep seeing more of their lives, even if it was not eventful.