Red Lights is the newest film from the director of the claustrophobic, mini-budgeted, one-man-show, Ryan Reynolds-starring Buried. Rodrigo Cortes indeed has some uniqueness in his films, his themes are different. This time he digs about fraud in showbusiness, particularly those involving supernatural things or magic. The film stars Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro. This is my first Elizabeth Olsen film, by the way. Someday I'll get around to watch Martha Marcy May Marlene or Silent House. The story is about Tom Buckley (Murphy), an associate of Professor Matheson (Weaver) who makes a side job by revealing fraud in the 'magic' business. And there's Simon Silver (De Niro), a veteran magician who's making a comeback after almost 20 years missing from stage. Buckley is somewhat compelled to investigate Silver, although everyone knows that Silver is dangerous.The premise is definitely intriguing and by looking at the trailers, you can get crazy to watch it. However, Cortes didn't tell and communicate the story well. Sometimes you feel there's a vital part missing in order to tell the story right. The big twist in the end is also a bit underwhelming to my taste. Some important things are just left unexplained, leaving me with so much questions. However, this film does benefit from incredible acting by Cillian Murphy and Robert De Niro. Sigourney Weaver's just the same nowadays so, nothing to comment. I'd love to see Rodrigo Cortes make more movies. I think he has this promise of delivering good cinema to the world. And also I would love to see Cillian Murphy get bigger roles because he totally deserves it. I'd recommend 28 Days Later and Sunshine to see Murphy in full action. Red Lights: rated 2 out of 4.
BONUS:
There's this incredible article I just found by Sujan Patel about Batman quotes from Nolan's trilogy.
He picked 10 quotes that led him to successful career life. I'll attach the link to it but I'd be kind enough to include my own favorite that is mutual with Patel's choices.
"Harvey Dent: “You make your own luck.”
In The Dark Knight, Harvey uses this line in reference to a double-sided coin, but I see this principle paralleled in the way we talk about entrepreneurs. Too often, we refer to successful business people as being lucky, or having “been in the right place at the right time.”
I believe it wasn’t an accident that put those people in the path of “luck” – it was the hours of hard work and dedication that were occurring behind the scenes.
Bill Gates is often held up as an extreme example of luck in the business world. Not only was he born into a privileged family that allowed him to spend his formative years at private primary schools and Harvard (institutions that would have had access to computing technology not available in other programs), he was born at a “lucky” time in the development of microcomputing and had the good fortune of teaming up with fellow visionary Paul Allen at the right moment.
But despite these factors, to say that the entire success of Microsoft can be pinned on one man’s lucky break is extremely shortsighted. Certainly, Gates wasn’t the only one born into these specific situations. Any number of his classmates could have replicated his early successes – but they didn’t.
Really, for most successful entrepreneurs, a moment of good fortune is one of millions of other moments dedicated to hard work and drive. Without the hundreds or thousands of other things done at different periods in their companies’ life cycles, they never would have been able to capitalize on the instances of luck that did happen to appear. "
Lastly, I kinda owe any of my readers this video
*for the Thor bit, I know it's off topic to the rest of the vid but I just gotta do it when I saw the lightning.
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