A film for the latter days

Rating: 9/10 (9 October 2005)

What an extraordinary film! And I don't mean just its artistic or technical side, but also its spiritual meanings. Of course, the story is great, the directing is great, the acting... Al Pacino, Keanu, Charlize. Oh, by the way, and I loved it how they had dissected the American myth of the successful lawyer (but it's much, much more that that). Anyway, back to my point: remember that great scene when Milton explains almost literally the mechanisms of corruption and self-degradation, while walking in the streets with his young "pupil"? If it was only for that key for salvation in everyday life and the movie would have been a must see! Well, when I had left the cinema, I heard two guys commenting on it: "Wow, the system is so perfect, you can't get away". Exactly the opposite of my thought! And then I recalled the saying of the Revelation, which goes something like that: he who is just, let him be just, and he who is corrupt, let him be corrupt. In other words, people had made their choices, the time has come. Well, are we really living the last days of our ripe world as we knew it or what? Very intriguing.