Me and My Words

Last saturday i just watched this movie, i cried during the show, i adore the husband’s faithful, and the tricky part, i can not guess the ending which is sad or happy. i also played with my mind what scene will be next, not only me but all audiences of the show.

The act of Russell Crowe as John Brennan, amazing (always love his act in every his movie). Elizabeth Banks as Lara Brennan also make me in between, hate her or love her character but still, i love the way she play on that role.

I still want to watch this movie..i love movie that after you watch it, you still thingking about it and want to tell even talk about it among your friends.

The Next Three Days is a 2010 thriller film directed by Paul Haggis and starring Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks. It was released in the United States on November 19, 2010. the film on location in Pittsburgh.

Cast :
    * Russell Crowe as John Brennan
    * Elizabeth Banks as Lara Brennan
    * Brian Dennehy as George Brennan
    * Olivia Wilde as Nicole
    * Lennie James as Lieutenant Nabulsi
    * Aisha Hinds as Detective Collero
    * Daniel Stern as Meyer Fisk
    * RZA as Mouss
    * Jason Beghe as Detective Quinnan
    * Kevin Corrigan as Alex
    * Liam Neeson as Damon Pennington
    * Allan Steele as Sergeant Harris

Plot :

Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) is accused of murdering her boss after an altercation at work. Her college professor husband John Brennan (Russel Crowe) becomes obsessed with the idea of breaking her out of jail, and their son Luke ceases to acknowledge her during their prison visits.

John consults Damon Pennington (Liam Neeson), a hardened criminal who has successfully escaped from prison seven times, after reading Damon’s book on the subject. Damon advises John to study the prison, saying “any prison has a key”. Damon also warns him that the initial escape from the prison will be easy, compared to avoiding capture after the escape. To that end, John must obtain false passports, new social security numbers, and a “truckload of cash” to have a chance of building a life elsewhere. Damon also suggests going to an unstable foreign country that is politically hostile to the United States, so that there would be no extradition or cooperation with United States authorities. John learns the city’s plan for capturing escaped prisoners—15 minutes after the escape, the police are to block the nearby roads, and that within 35 minutes, the block will extend to train stations and interstate toll stations, and that their descriptions will be at every airport and train station, though it may take longer for digital photos to be sent.

John plans the escape meticulously and obtains the passports and social security numbers after some painful efforts. The aforementioned “truckload of cash” is harder to come by, and he commits armed robbery of a methamphetamine lab. There is an intense gunfight, but John leaves with a bag full of cash. John falsifies and plants medical evidence indicating that his wife is severely ill, and she is transferred to the hospital. John follows the ambulance and retrieves his wife. She’s shocked when he violently subdues a prison guard and initially refuses to come with him, but he challenges her to call Luke to say that she chooses not to reunite with him, after which she relents.

Throughout the movie, John is shown assembling maps, photographs, notes, and other papers on a wall of his house. He tears them down and stuffs it into several garbage bags before leaving to rescue Lara, leaving one bag in the trash can outside his own house, and the rest in a dumpster some blocks away. As it turns out he did this selectively to misguide the detectives, to focus them on flights from Canada to Haiti, giving his family time to board a flight from Toronto to Caracas, Venezuela. They have an uncomfortable moment at Customs, as an officer examines their passports and glances at the page of photographs showing criminals on the run. He allows them to pass. The shift changes, and as they walk down the hall, their photos are finally sent to the security personnel. They reach Venezuela. The detectives back in Pittsburgh quietly re-examine the crime scene but find no new evidence. It is shown in flashbacks that Lara was in fact innocent.

Additional information :

1. The Next Three Days is a remake of the 2007 French film Pour Elle (Anything for Her) by Fred Cavayé.
2. Users voted on IMDB and the ratings are 7.3/10
3. Roger Ebert (movie critics) said, “The Next Three Days is not a bad movie, it’s just somewhat of a waste of the talent involved.
4. The critical consensus is: “Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks give it their all, but their solid performances aren’t quite enough to compensate for The Next Three Days’ uneven pace and implausible plot

Well, watching movie is like eating, each people have different taste… ^^

*all the information Taken from wikipedia and imdb website.*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Three_Days

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1458175/

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salut dengan orang macam mbah ini, salut dengan kejujurannya, dengan cara penyampaian, bukan berarti aku akan menjadi seperti dia, aku memilih untuk tidak karena dunia yang aku pilih tidak akan menerima kejujuran yang terlalu lugas.

silahkan nilai dengan asumsi sendiri, karena toh si mbah tidak peduli dengan itu semua, hahahaha karena pada akhirnya kita hidup juga untuk kita sendiri, benar salah itu nanti biar tuhan kita masing-masing yang menentukan.

cheers….