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Actors: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, Ciarán Hinds, Matt Craven
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Statement |
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In June 1944, Pierre Brossard, a member of a French militia working hand in hand with the Nazis, denounced seven Jews to them and witnessed their immediate execution. For 50 years since, Brossard lived like a fugitive, helped by his friends of the "Chevaliers de Marie", a little religious order which housed him in its monasteries and by former comrades of the militia who agreed to help him financially.
Now, his former comrades, who, for some of them, have become influential politicians, decide to get rid of Brossard because the French police is determined to arrest him. Judge Annemarie Livi and army Colonel Roux are in charge of the case and come everyday closer of Brossard. Unaware of the real identity of those who are sending killers behind him, Brossard manages to kill two of them and seeks refuge in some of the abbeys of the "Chevaliers de Marie" but he understands soon that the informations about his locations that he gives by phone to his so-called friends are right away transmitted to the killers. Meanwhile, Judge Livi and Colonel Roux have also understood that, if they want to see Brossard alive, they'd better have to hurry. Produced and directed by Norman Jewison in 2003.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Statement |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- finding a spy/saboteur
The terrorist enemy is...
- racists/kkk/nazis
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 60's-90's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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