Top 10 2013 Movies
Top 10 2013 Movies, This year was a great one for films. Plenty of movies were worth recommending, from big-budget blockbusters to edgy dramas.
But the best were those that felt like they were made for us. They were the ones that wowed us, made us think, or gave us a story to latch on to.
The Wolf of Wall Street
It’s hard to overstate the significance of Martin Scorsese’s latest movie. It’s a biopic of Jordan Belfort, a Wall Street stockbroker who amassed an enormous fortune through fraud, money laundering, and other illegal activities.
What made it so important was that Scorsese and his screenwriter Terence Winter deliberately aimed to highlight the negatives of monetary influence, even exaggeratedly. In a sense, it was a kind of anti-capitalist movie, a film that makes you hate wealthy people because they’re the ones bringing about this nation’s problems.
And because it sprang into the public domain right before Christmas, it was a massive deal to many people, especially in the business world. It received a low CinemaScore grade and a hard R rating. That made it one of the most polarising movies of 2013 and, in fact, one of the most controversial.
12 Years an Enslaved Person
12 Years an enslaved person, directed by Steve McQueen and written by John Ridley, is one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2013 and perhaps the best made about slavery. It’s a powerful indictment of slavery, the brutal, exploitative system that left generations worldwide with deep scars and disillusionment.
Unlike many Hollywood slavery movies, it depicts the gruelling life of an enslaved man and his family in a way that makes the horrors of slave trading more humane. It also teaches us about the strength of the enslaved people who could withstand the cruel treatment and survive.
The film is an example of how the film industry can help educate the public about this reprehensible history by producing realistic, accurate accounts of slavery. It’s a brave and vital step forward in the fight against the racist myths that have permeated the US cinema industry for generations.
Short Term 12
Based on his short film of the same name, director Destin Daniel Cretton’s feature-length debut is a stunningly nuanced and heartbreaking examination of a group home for troubled youths. The film tells the story of Grace (Brie Larson), a 20-something supervisor who works alongside her boyfriend/co-worker Mason and counsels the teens in her care.
But when a new patient arrives at the facility, Grace confronts her past in more ways than one. As the teen Jayden (Kaitlyn Dever) slowly begins to mirror her troubled childhood, Grace must face her scars and learn how to heal.
There are many radical tonal shifts in Short Term 12, but Cretton keeps the film moving steadily. The characters have moments of despair but are also given time to smile and laugh.
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis is a brilliantly crafted film that’s centred on a legendary moment in the history of the Greenwich Village folk music scene. It also features a remarkable performance by Oscar Isaac, who plays the irascible and self-defeating folk singer Llewyn Davis.
Parents need to know that this movie has some intense subject matter, including drug overdose and alcohol consumption, as well as swearing. It’s a bleak story about the struggle of a poor folk singer in 1961.
The film centres on a single week in the life of Llewyn (played by Oscar Isaac) as he tries to make a name for himself in the Greenwich Village folk music scene. He sleeps on friends’ couches and attempts to record a single.
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water is a film that embraces all of Guillermo Del Toro’s passions for the supernatural and monsters. It reimagines the fairytale “Beauty and the Beast” in a new light, with a monster that is both beautiful on the outside and kind, loving and understanding on the inside.
In the movie, a government lab worker (Sally Hawkins) falls in love with a humanoid amphibian creature captured from the sea. She helps him escape, and they fall in love against the backdrop of Cold War-era America in 1963.
Del Toro has long admired classic horror films, such as James Whale’s Frankenstein and Jack Arnold’s Creature from the Black Lagoon, and he wanted to tell the story of this creature similarly. But he also wanted to make sure this fish man was not only scary but sexy and romantic.
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