Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)

I watched like like 8 years back and then now watch it again...first time i really liked the movie and music so nice...after 8 years later i find it more beautiful because i have seen life in many ways with in 8 years...the best part when Ruth said it is so strange that she cant cry even though this is her saddest time of life but in the end she cried so much when she read the later ''shake your head girl with your ponytail...take me right back '' goose bum....amazing...love it

Flashbacks of a Fool… Where to begin? As I began to watch the film, I had no idea what to expect. At first I anticipated a (500) Days of Summer type film, with irregular time shifts and jumps throughout. But after watching Daniel Craig skilfully applying his Touche Éclat I wondered whether it would have more of an American Psycho angle to it. In fact, after viewing the entire film I was still wondering what on earth the film was about. Yes, it was shot beautifully, and Emile Robert played the part of the stern anti-hero (the Young Daniel Craig) to a tee, but in my opinion the film lacked a certain something.. a storyline.In essence, this is basically a film about an obnoxious twerp who matures and grows into an even more obnoxious adult, who, despite having an enviable lifestyle and physique, insists on maintaining a frown throughout. You hate him as an adolescent, when he stands up his best friend's crush in order to have rampant sex with his mother's friend, and he has sex with said mother again, though this time her daughter ends up playing on an abandoned mine, and ends up getting blown up to smithereens. Oh, and Craig decides to make advances on his best friend's wife just hours after his funeral. And that's about it. I would definitely recommend this film, if you appreciate artistic cinema and naked flesh, but if you're after a gripping, eventful film, Flashbacks of a Fool is definitely worth avoiding. Not only is there no real conclusion, but if you're like me, you will genuinely wonder what on earth you spent the past 90 minutes or so watching. On the plus side though, the music is brilliant, especially if you happen to be a Bowie fan, and you get to see Daniel Craig's naked buttocks. Repeatedly.

I must admit I really did'not expect this to turn out to be such a little gem. I was locked into it from the first 10 minutes or so. But it's a great pity the screenwriter did'not fill in a few more bits of the main characters life. I could have sat there for another 40 minutes at least. Daniel Craig has come a long way since playing the Geordie bouncer and hit-man in 'Our friends in the North' a part which he played so convincingly at the time, I did'not think he'd ever be able to move on. Typecasting is so rife in TV. Realistically Sad in parts, and not the screeching OTT theatricals that you usually get from the Media.

i am not a big movie buff. i usually let them play for casual entertainment - really good movies are hard to come by. and i didn't really mean to get involved with this story... this one took me by surprise.i was a fish on the hook and didn't know it till the end. if you are as old as i, it takes you back - when you were young. and if you're lucky enough to see this when you're young, and understand it, you just might learn what dying really is.there is a less obvious contrast in this story. you might not get it. all i can say is, don't let this happen to you.(i score this a 10 also but made it a 9 on the advice of others to not come across as a pusher)