As the summer heat continues, pelikula@titusbrandsma fires you up too with film features that will surely engage you in heated debates.

These films do not promise answers to your many questions but it may even add up to more questions and confusions. This can be a perfect experience to match the heat of the summer and end it with thoughts to ponder.

As these films make you focus not only on the intertwining themes within them but also leave you in “shock and awe” with the visually stunning camera works that the makers of these films have geniusly put together. Your film experience will be thought-provoking and a stunning visual extravaganza, GUARANTEED! An opportunity not only to raise questions but hopefully open new areas for discussion.

The need to talk about “terrorism” is now felt more than ever. It created a new meaning for itself after the September 11 terrorist attack at the USA. Constantly, it is being used, mentioned all over but so often and so loosely that it has lost its clear meaning.

pelikula@titusbrandsma discovered real gems in the film treasure box:

Land of Plenty
Win Wenders, USA, 2004.
123 minutes.

“Poverty in the Land of Plenty.” This means that not all is pretty and going well even in the Land of Plenty.

Wenders looks at America in a post-9/11scenario using two opposing auras / personas carried by the characters of Paul and Lana. He handles the film so well that the presentation exudes a warm and touching observation of America’s disillusionment after the terrorist attack.

Paul (John Deihl) depicts a persona of suspicion and paranoia that leads him to believe that small town events are parts of a bigger plot. So engrossed with his self-appointed renegade operative for Homeland Security character that he trails people he suspects involved in a terrorist activity in a beat-up, surveillance-equipment-crammed van. He talks to himself, basically, as he uses his headset and tape