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	<title>Don&#039;t be a Plum!</title>
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	<description>sometimes people really piss me off.... so then I watch a movie</description>
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		<title>Bridesmaids (2011)</title>
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So what is Bridesmaids all about?
Bridesmaids is fundamentally concerned with relationships and intimate connections inherent in personal female friendships.  The core themes revolve around the central characters relationships and the significant events in a person’s life that involve the often delicate balance of personalities, characters, loyalty, and personal family relations. However to deepen this basic plot line, the author has paralleled the main characters relationships using paradox in order to sharpen the trajectories of the characters experiences.  
The central themes of the movie are well constructed through the use of the tension of opposites.  It is in&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/bridesmaids-2011/</link>
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		<title>Frida (2002)</title>
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Where do I start (I am a little out of practice in writing reviews, sorry for being gone for so long). I really liked this movie so much, I watched it while I was on vacation with my Mom. It&#8217;s about Frida Kahlo, from when she was a student and got into a really bad accident, to when she dies when she&#8217;s 47. She was a painter who lived in the 1920s in Mexico City, Mexico and was married to Diego Rivera, another painter. The movie was directed by Julie Taymor, who I really like too. It had a lot of guest&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/frida-2002/</link>
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		<title>A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints (2006)</title>
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I really really loved this film; it&#8217;s about how hard it is to grow up, and about how much harder growing up is when you can&#8217;t really express yourself and you&#8217;re living in a tough neighbourhood. It reminds me of another movie called This is England that I wrote about, because it seems like there are a lot of films out there by young directors about growing up in the 80s and showing what it was like to be a young man then based on themselves.The director&#8217;s name was Dito Montiel, and he wrote a book about his life that&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/a-guide-to-recognizing-your-saints-2006/</link>
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		<title>Salaam Bombay! (1988)</title>
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I saw this movie before I saw Slumdog Millionnaire and it ruined Slumdog for me. I think Slumdog is a cheap ripoff of Salaam Bombay, which is a movie that has real taste and characters that are human and have depth to them.
It&#8217;s a movie about street kids in Bombay. It starts with a little boy named Krishna. He does something wrong so his mother tells him he has to work at the circus in order to pay for it and he can&#8217;t come home until he does. So then he works at the circus but one day his boss&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/salaam-bombay-1988/</link>
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		<title>Suggestions Please!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I am going to do something very different. If you read my blog, can you please tell me some different movies that you think I would like? If you read my posts, you know the kinds of things I like to watch. They are movies that make me think and that are about out of the way subjects or people. I also like old movies. I&#8217;m off for a few days so I&#8217;m looking forward to what you all have to say when I return.
Thank you.
Plum
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		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/suggestions-please/</link>
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		<title>La Dolce Vita (1960)</title>
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This film was directed by Frederico Fellini and made in 1960. I really liked it and after I watched the film I watched the director&#8217;s cut and I read an article on it. The film is the very first film that has the paparazzi as a main character in the film. The main character is a reporter for a tabloid newspaper, and so he is one of the paparazzi. His name is Marcello.
The film has a structure that is made up of seven episodes. Each episode lasts for about a night. The episodes start at night and end in the&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/la-dolce-vita-1960/</link>
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		<title>The Great Gatsby (1974)</title>
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I watched this movie last week and it was pretty good. It is based on the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and it is starring Robert Redford who started the Sundance Film Festival which i hope to go to one day.
Jay Gatsby was a really rich gentleman. He had all these grand parties and he was really mysterious&#8211; no one knew who he really was and what he was really like. People were a little scared of him but they came to his parties because he was rich and they had a great time.
Then you learned his&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/the-great-gatsby-1974/</link>
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		<title>Gattaca (1997)</title>
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I really loved this movie, and I&#8217;ll tell you why. It follows a guy who does whatever he needs to do to follow his dreams. People tell him he can&#8217;t and that he&#8217;s not perfect or he doesn&#8217;t have the potential to do what he wants to do, and he just does it anyways.
It is starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman and Jude Law. They&#8217;re members of this futuristic world where everyone&#8217;s genes have been chosen for them before they are even born. Some people&#8217;s parents have the money to make perfect kids with their doctors, and some parents don&#8217;t.&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/gattaca-1997/</link>
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		<title>This is England (2006)</title>
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I loved this film &#8212; It&#8217;s the best British film I&#8217;ve seen in a long time.  It follows a young boy named Shaun (who is a lot like the director Shane Meadows) in the 80s in England who is trying to find himself and fit in, and he somehow gets into situations and hangs out with people that are a bit older and more complicated than he should be involved in.
The movie begins with Shaun getting teased for how he dresses and getting into a fight becuase someone makes fun of his dead father who died in the war. On&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/this-is-england-2006/</link>
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		<title>AVATAR (2009)</title>
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I figure I should do what everyone does who has a movie blog and review Avatar. The reason I want to review it is because I think it is actually a really good movie.
Of course, the main thing about this film is the technology. I was watching some interivews online, and the actor Laz Alonso, who played a Na&#8217;avi warrior, said that there were 197 cameras filming each scene, so the actors could mix in their performance with light and motion detectors, and then they could feed that into CGI and make them into aliens who move and talk and&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dontbeaplum.co.uk/avatar-2009/</link>
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