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Blow Out (1981)
Brian De Palma does it again! This is a great stylish thriller with a fantastic performance by John Travolta, great music usage and one of the most intense and captivating endings I've ever seen.
The story has a similar plot to the 1966 movie Blowup (which is also an excellent film), but changes the concept a tiny bit. In stead of discovering a murder on images, the main character in this film, a movie sound recordist called Jack Terry, accidentally records the sound of a so called car accident he witnessed. He also saves one of the two passengers, a girl named Sally (played by the beautiful Nancy Allen), from drowning.
In the hospital, they ask Jack to shut his mouth and never talk about the incident again and certainly not about the girl he saved, as the male victim was in fact the main contestant for the upcoming presidential elections and they don't want to hurt his image right after his dead, because that would be ungraceful.
When he rewinds the recorded sound tape and listens to it again at home, he notices a gun shot right before the car starts to slip. From then on, Jack starts an investigation on his own and becomes obsessed with the case. Piece by piece, he unravels the puzzle, while he starts to fall in love with Sally.
But just like my second favorite film of all time, Chinatown, Jack (the same name) makes a capital mistake that he (more or less) already made before...
I was glued to the screen during the whole movie and the ending was so wonderful and yet so horrifying that I sat through the whole credits, thinking about the shockingly beautiful final scenes. You just know a film was great when that happens.
Despite some minor plot difficulties I had with the movie (some small inconsistencies in the storyline), I liked it so much that I rate it:
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Blow Out (1981)
Brian De Palma does it again! This is a great stylish thriller with a fantastic performance by John Travolta, great music usage and one of the most intense and captivating endings I've ever seen.
The story has a similar plot to the 1966 movie Blowup (which is also an excellent film), but changes the concept a tiny bit. In stead of discovering a murder on images, the main character in this film, a movie sound recordist called Jack Terry, accidentally records the sound of a so called car accident he witnessed. He also saves one of the two passengers, a girl named Sally (played by the beautiful Nancy Allen), from drowning.
In the hospital, they ask Jack to shut his mouth and never talk about the incident again and certainly not about the girl he saved, as the male victim was in fact the main contestant for the upcoming presidential elections and they don't want to hurt his image right after his dead, because that would be ungraceful.
When he rewinds the recorded sound tape and listens to it again at home, he notices a gun shot right before the car starts to slip. From then on, Jack starts an investigation on his own and becomes obsessed with the case. Piece by piece, he unravels the puzzle, while he starts to fall in love with Sally.
But just like my second favorite film of all time, Chinatown, Jack (the same name) makes a capital mistake that he (more or less) already made before...
I was glued to the screen during the whole movie and the ending was so wonderful and yet so horrifying that I sat through the whole credits, thinking about the shockingly beautiful final scenes. You just know a film was great when that happens.
Despite some minor plot difficulties I had with the movie (some small inconsistencies in the storyline), I liked it so much that I rate it:
-