ANGEL A

I recommend this beautiful Luc Besson's movie to one person and after watching it you will find out if you were the one I was thinking of.
Well, but now I would like to explain some of my ideas about this movie. Off course the message is simple and direct (some may say too dam naïf and obvious) but that is what the movie is all about.
Choosing to shoot in black and white is usually something that creators do to point directly to something (color adds one more variable to the equation and sometimes it scatters the entire concept). In this case the choice of black and white is perfect! Off course it is very well shot and the light is very well captured. The framing and camera movements are really good, but the most important thing is that it allows you to get inside the Angel-A and Andre (played by the beautiful Rie Rasmussen and the extreme talent Jamel Debbouze).
Simple stories do give great movies and even though some may think life and the human mind are really complex, sometimes our soul just needs a simple story. This story is not needed as an excape of reality but because it can give you some really good perspectives (even if those are not the ones that the movie presents). Well I could go on and on about the power of meaning of a work of art (and all that stuff about the relation of meaning/observer/work of art) but my main reason for this post is simply to say:

It is really worth it!

We do make things more complicated and off course all the problems come to us because we care about something or someone but that is no reason from escaping to look inside our souls and face what we really are, what we really want, to realize that we are a gift!