15 Minutes Movie Download

7 / 10

mostly good (but one thing eats at me)
No doubt many of us have heard Andy Warhol’s assertion that everyone will be famous for a quarter of an hour: a person commits some heinous crime and gets his face all over the cover of every major newspaper and on the nightly news, but then disappears into the annals of history. So, the movie “15 Minutes” plays off of this idea. It portrays a Russian and a Czech coming to New York to deal with a man who owes them money, but then find something even better: they murder people and videotape their delicts. Needless to say, the media is only too happy to make hay of it.

Now for the movie’s aspect that I didn’t like. I am getting a little tired of movies making Russians (and in this case, also Czechs) the bad guys. I know that geopolitics was dominated for over forty years by the Cold War, but aren’t we through portraying Slavic people as villains? I spent autumn, 2005, in St. Petersburg, where I lived with a local family (and I enjoyed it there very much); I then spent autumn, 2006, in Yekaterinburg, where I lived with a local family (I enjoyed it there very much). So I don’t care if we get a little unnerved by anything that Vladimir Putin says (you gotta admit that Bush’s plans to stick missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic is gonna scare people there); we should treat Russia as our friend.

But anyway, it’s otherwise a really good movie. Starring Robert DeNiro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammar and Kim Cattrall.Read More