To: Paul Atreides
Unbreakable. Some might find it a bit long, but there's a gun safety message, a lesson on the value of family and the security a father provides, a message on the opportunity cost of law enforcement, a clear look at how a criminal's *victims* suffer -- uncomplicated by needless analysis of the criminal -- and a disabled man who gets ahead in the world without feeling that the world owes him something. (Well, he does, but he goes about finding that something all by himself.) Oh, and the 2 main characters are African-American and Caucasian, but there's absolutely no race-baiting throughout the movie.
To: Caesar Soze
Unbreakable. I saw this in theaters and bought a VHS copy of this movie as soon as it came out. The scene at the breakfast table where Bruce Willis quietly slides the newspaper over to his son, showing him the article about the unknown hero saving the children abducted by a brutal killer is priceless.
How many movie heros are as quiet and self-effacing as that?
The more I watch that movie the more it gets to me.
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