in 2000 the actor Liam Neeson had the leading role as
the DEA agent Charlie in the film „Gun Shy“. Charlie comes back
from an undercover mission, which has gone horribly wrong. It ended
in a disastrous shooting, in which Charlie's colleague got killed and
almost got him killed as well. Instead Charlie ended up head first in
a water melon. Needless to say that he hates melons since then. From
that moment on he has severe digestive problems as well as anxiety.
There's nothing he wants more than retirement and the view of the
ocean.
On his flight back, Charlie meets the therapist Dr.
Jeff Bleckner (Michael Mantell). He notices how uncomfortable Charlie
is and offers him help. Dr. Bleckner suggests Charlie goes to do some
group therapy. During those sessions Charlie finds out that he's far
from being the only one unhappy with his (professional) life. As he
tells the others about his problems, he falls on sympathetic ears.
Charlie has to take on one last job to stop the scary mafia
boss Fulvio and his money laundering business. Charlie is so nervous
meeting Fulvio the first time, that Dr. Bleckner prescribes him some
pills. The therapist makes it very clear to Charlie only to take one
pill. But Charlie is so nervous and the effect doesn't come fast
enough for Charlie. So he takes a second. That leads to Charlie not
only being calm during the meeting, but he very much not to fall
asleep. In the end Charlie can't fight it any longer and just falls
asleep in his chair as he is. Fulvio is enthusiastic and impressed
how Chrlie can go to sleep and just sleep peacefully.
Charlie and Fulvio become friends for real. That's
how Charlie realises that the mean mafia boss is just a show.
Fulvio's wish for life is to grow tomatos. He only plays the mean
mafia boss, because that's what everyone seems to expect him to be
like. So Fulvio is just one more person, who is unsatisfied and with
totally different dreams for how his own life should be. Charlie
decides to help him.
Charlie consults the beautiful Judy Tipp (Sandra
Bullock) about his digestive problems, who not only is able to help him
with alternative medicine about his bodily problems. He's also
infected by her optimism and the to of them come closer.
All in all this film can't be taken too serious and
is far from what might happen in real life. But the film has much
humour and it's much fun for me to watch all those great actors. The
characters were written which much love and care, even the smaller
parts and I enjoy it a great deal to see them all with their quirks
and their problems they are fighting with and do their best to stick
to their dreams and come closer to fulfilling them. At the end of
this turbulent adventure especially Charlie and Fulvio clearly
learned something for themselves and have been through quite some
changes and achieved things for themselves.
sarah
telling the story of the youth of Julian Assange, the founder and
chief editor of WikiLeaks. There's a scene where the young Julian
sits in his room with his girlfriend. It's already dark outside. She
tells him of a place where she'd like to go and asks him, if he likes
to travel. He tells her that he already has. When he's hacking
computers, he travels all the time. Sitting here in his bedroom and
at the same time being at the other side of the world. Then he asks
her to look outside the window and pick a suburb. She does. Julian
types in a few lines on the computer and suddenly all the lights to
out in the suburb she told him. “Did you just do that?”, she asks
him. He doesn't reply, just tells her to pick another suburb. “No”,
she says. “All those poor people are in the dark.” “They are
happy”, he says. “Did you know that nine months after a black
out, there's always a rise in the number of child births?”