Films that need watching and having

Amazing movie at an amazing time, great implicit, explixit, referential and symptomatic meanings to the film....a must-watch movie...

Brilliant!!! An amazing film with lots of powerful imagery and the whole film is just well structured. Seriously one of Kubrick's best work.

Looking at this movie, you'd feel History is alive and Hitler is living, as is hsown and lets you participate in his death. The other parts on Goebbels and his family is amazing too. Everything is great about this film.

Awesome, more like his late work, similarities with Opera than with the other 2 of the three mothers film. The gore is heavy and the sex very obvious too. I liked it for it's realistic edge over the fantastical element of Suspiria and so it's different. The way it depicted the evil of the Mother of Tears was very brutalistic and that suited the style here. Lastly, this is Argento, which makes it cool.

I loved this film, the whole settings and everything about this film is still heavy in my mind, beautiful visual images and the story is decadent and extravagant at the same time.

Amazing, one of the most amazingly beautiful and emotionally challenginfg films I've seen in a long time. Words can't describe the striking simplicity of this film but the strong emotions that continues to rage and yet kept so subtle is absolutely unique.

Beautiful, I loved evry minute of this minute. An experience where ideas of motifs and subtext are less important than the emotions and the beauty of remembering what is basically something we try to remember all the time as we've been in it. I loved the dialogue of this film, extremely rohmer in every sense.

Badass, the monologue by the partisan at the end was astute and amazing and the bullets through the vagina just to prevent an outcast spawn being born was really badass. Seriously, the scene where the mad super villain is munching on that thing, I was shocked and felt something wrong. Just pure badassery.

This movie, is just awesome, one of the more fascinating b-films I've seen.

An absolutely beautiful film of a son willing to goall the way in meeting his mother to just do one thing for her. Such a beautiful story, its emotions coming out so strongly, the dialogue not aiding it but satisfying the images which are already carving out the sentiments in ourselves. I loved the way the male character is this good-hearted man, doing what he can for his countrymen and who is so self-sacrificing, putting away glory for just one beautiful moment at the end of the film. A really stunning and poetic tale, a road-movie, and even a delightful comedy.

An extremely brutal piece of prison film. The entire film is like a critique of the way prisons are run, it shows what happens behind the scenes and goes right into the psychology, by the establishing of chcracter personality and their background, though vague, offers glimpses of these man, basically they are men like any other. They gamble, they err and they don't get better in prison. A very harsh piece that is also an allegory of power in the United States by a great artist of American cinema.

An amazing, startling film, a very numbing experience, almost like being high and gone. This film was one of the most poetic and disturbingly visual I've seen. Every shot, every long take, every word was like a prayer. I was absolutely hooked to this film, it really captured me. I'm not going to say it's not for everyone, but watch it to see the experience you have.

This film reminds me a little of "Amores Perros", a similarly desperate film. I found the central character very sympathetic to me, I could not guess his actions, but I could feel why he does them. A film very beautiful, the camera stunning and the character development emphasized over a decipherable plot. The actions of Cuba, revolutionary and counter-revolutionary and the whole problems with it, are shown here, shaped around a man.

To see a girl lying there bleeding, and to see time going backwards, time having nothing to do with life, reality as good as fantasy, that opening was one of the most startling I've seen in the history of cinema. A girl caught up in strife, having lost a lot, she makes up for it, by replacing natural beauty for inner peace, a desire where having accomplished some adventure, she reaches peace and love. The entire tale was a gritty tale, but one where the grittyness was not cool, but instead, a blight on mankind. Extremely similar in its themes with 'The Spirit Of The Beehive'/

I loved this movie like hell. The twisted narrative, the entire dialogue that in many different ways talk about liberty and its fallacies. Utterly fascinating. Each scene gets you thinking and continuously thinking.

This movie was really awesome. I mean, I don't really dig female over males nonsense, but this was badass. The dialogue was really cool and to hear Tarantino say it was something else. It was seriously just cool. The film had great actors, Robbie Lee and Joanne Nail and had such a storyline that was simple but really strenghtened by the burgeoning tension and friction being caused. One helluva Jack Hill film.

An utterly incomprehensible and disturbing look at the downfall of two brothers slide down into mental incasbility, degeneration and their incessant need for satisfaction, be it work or pleasure. It is one film that drew me more than Cronenberg's other work but for this film, I've yet to entirely put my finger on the underlying theme even though every bit of it just sort of threw me off hither.

Watched this a while back and have to say, this is the best, absolutely brilliant films, films that were low quality but shot in such a badass manner and everything was hands down a blast. Watching Kurt Russell as such an awesome badass was fun and to see him getting it in the end was such fun. Hope more comes out.

This film is just bloody badass. The entire movie was just fascinating and awesome.

I loved this film a lot, what annoyed me is these, the idea of girl power and the idea of doing silly poor tape quality resulting in damage but not doing it throughout.

I will not say this was a great or brilliant movie, but its special effects were pretty nice. I loved the entire miniatures for some reason. the tale was a typical one, using set-ups, plants, pay-offs and all the usual narrative methods to work.

The ending was really badass, with the Godly dialogue and all. The entire film was really astounding for one reason. The last scenes were a masterpiece with the mood being set and lack of dialogue but the way it was resolved, with it being a survival movie as compared to the earlier parts and where you hope for that ending and it just doesn't show was very brave and really brought this movie to be a daring and to top it off, a technical masterpiece.

Personally, this will look pretty strange if made now, it is very typical, but for its time, it had its charm. The scene where she fires the gun is honestly badass.

There's something about the ending that just does not leave me satisfied, especially after the scene when all the other chefs leave the restaurant. I mean, the monologue and the closing down was great but I felt a bit disturbed that when they spent so much time on making the animation so great, why not just a pinch more for perfection, maybe it's just me but anyway, it was a great film, really got me hooked and the story moves at a pace that was fantastic and yet evocative, a lot of subtleties were there, very much an adult film as well as a kid's film.

I will say this about this film. It is a Hollywood fare and I could guess every scene about this film before it happened, pre-empt, especially the last cab scene. It is a fascinating thriller even if the weaving is very expected, and I was at times amazed by the acting.

I just love these kind of films. The thing is, it has a narrative structure that is very expected and even stereotypical, a lot of the goals and sub-conscious goals were there, but it was well held up and overall, it was joy to watch. Some of the editing was pretty outrageous, especially in the earlier scenes, where it looked like the army was coming nearer but it wasn't and the next cut showed it or least gave an idea how relaxed the enemy were, but the army in the next cut looked even nearer. I thought that was very interesting.

Sweet, an awesome movie about witchcraft and witch-hunting in particular. This movie is an absolute joy, just sensational and an absolute delight to see. The axe was extremely cool and overall, it had some good burnings in it too.

The most wicked film with the most well-choreographed script and casting and dialogue all together. A great performance and what a film.

What a film, the feeling I got of watching this film was of how long could it actually continue, I was stupefied. A zombie and a mob that was both leftist and revolutionary. It was out of this world, Lindsay Anderson continues to impress me. This film really was brilliant. A satire and a parody and an attack on society as it was developing in Britain. The scum of the Earth, angered and distasteful rise up against a government, an attack on the way the world was developing, people left behind and a satire on the different individuals of British society. It was honestly wicked, the camera, used a lot of long takes and povs and the story was really tight, like a boiling-pot at times.

The most wicked film with the most well-choreographed script and casting and dialogue all together. A great performance and what a film.

This is the one film of the trilogy that I cannot imagine watching twice. Not that it's bad, but it's allegory is so biting and the humour is occasional. The acting is very charming and well-played but the film is very disturbing personally and the way everything is direct, revolution, capitalism, police state, human conditioning and done like a road movie that goes through the entire coast of Britain was highlly effectual and extremely edifying, but yet very exciting to watch.

Not entirely scary as it's supposed to be...frannkly, it's good here and there but a little weird...son't jave the Asiana in it ya'know...

Really good adventure tale. A manhunt in primitive style where we see the effects of colonialism not just obviously but its effects overall on the contitnent and its changes on the people. The personal tragedy of the people is never one sided but is double-pronged to emphasize the humanity and the similarity of each man's tale in any form of struggle or fight.

Beautiful cinematography and set design, that alone warrants it as one of his highest points in his later life. The ending was a little bit pointless, Hollywood maybe but the entire starting of this film was personally one of fantastic noir.

As a short film, I thought it was lovely, it was nice to see these two people just getting along in this yellow room. Charming would be a nice word.

My first of the trilogy, this was remarkable in its achievement. The use of shapes and sizes in its outrageous camera composition was totally stunning, it held me to the scene as editing violations were held up proud by its beautiful framing. The shots were delicately crafted too and Monica Vitti's character was fleshed out in a most sublime and ethereal mosaic done on black and white film.

One of my favourites of Franco's work. The downfall of a young and pure girl into degenracy is explored beautifully here, her youth and innocence a flaw in this story and her trust mislead and her discovery both splendid and cruel.

A movie so brilliant, I don't know what to say, it is such a movie that it's not a good idea to just hear the words, but to see the whole mise-en-scéne, the whole under-lying meaning, that is the beauty of this film, pretty much everything

I'm rating it highly mainly because of one thing, this was a movie that made me wonder how they escaped. I mean the use of multiple plot twists is nothing new, it was done in a lot of giallo movies particularly, but here, the fact when they tried and tried, you wonder what's going to happen, that fact, even though the movie was not gory or disturbing made this movie fascinating. The use of plant and payoffs in the last part was quite interesting too. I'm still wondering about the early scenes where the film was in black & white with blue and green tinges or something like that.

Great thriller, the story was great, suspense till the end.

This film is a philosophical discourse done in the wonderful format of cinema. A movie so startling and genuine at tandem, so beautiful is its canvas, so pure its words. When I was watching this, I kept rewinding it, just to listen to the words again. The way the dialogue was written, like when he said he cried, like an old grandmother was so perfect because when paused at the part when he said he cried, I expected the stereotypical cried like a baby, but the words were done in a way that fooled the audience. This film proves Coppola as the best among the American film brats.

This film is devastating, its entire atmosphere of destruction literally wails right at us, the characters are so like us and the entire obsession with a mythological city, similar to Jodorowsky's Fando y Lis, brings about to life what reality can cost mankind, the reality of power, greed, desire and influence. A highly layered piece of work done in an outrageous camera style with a plot as minimalist as it isincomprehensible not because of obscurity, but because the outside actions nor the actions of the characters were strongly placed out. Definitely one of Kinski's finest.

An amazing movie, and I don't say it lightly. In my opinion, the best film ever made, EVER!!! The visual imagery, the symbolism and the motifs are all brilliant....a piece of Eisensteinian genius....

Absolutely fantastic, raw and a great and fascinating trip down Vegas and drugs. A film where sense is neither here nor there, the drugs make no sense and everything is just about living. I love the way the subtle links are done between characters, very wide and contrasted. The performances were splendid too.

Keanu Reaves is definitely a bad-ass stoner actor. This film is rather difficult to follow but that is not important at all, in fact, it moves the information so fast, it barely makes it noticeable. But the movie talks a lot about friendship and betrayal, the idea of trust and knowing who we are, it addresses a lot of this issues in ways that are barely susceptible. I love the way they even added Alex Jones in the movie, I think that even if you are personally and ridiculously offended by this ideology, you still have another ideology or belief to look here and hopefully you're not that blind to see it, a wonderful film no doubt.

Wow, I wonder how Linklater got this people to talk in this manner, like a documentary and a narrative and a thesis and random rambling all in one.

This is definitely better than Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, there, the director was restrained a little, but here, it flows naturally, making the film more beautiful, the montage shots coupled with surreal reality makes this a very witty film, changing what is a dry innocuous love into something more beautiful, an effortless play, a show of young love between two very different and incongruous idealistic individuals. An effort to show love brewing and blooming byt stifled due to the complexity of one person who loves the attentio and one who likes it to be at a side from time to time.

A beautiful movie that is brilliant in plot and story. The whole film is just sweet and the ending really touches you and questions you on things like relationship and stuff like that.

The first Hammer film I've watched, absolutely loved it, can still recall much of the scenes, just loved the entirety of the film, the senselessnes of the fightings, to just adore this strange film, that doesn't quite make total sense, but is still brilliant.

Fascinating, the narrative really made my head swirl like the famous shot in Raging Bull.

Just saw this, and what a delight. I can't and probably never will forget the camera movement of this film, it was just fascinating. Tony Leung is a brilliant actor and I must say, brilliant acting and directing and you have this stupendous piece of film. The entire film was just startling, the narrative just makes you awed at how it was done, the pacing, the structure. Seriously wonderful.

There were good cinematography at times and some badass Once Upon A Time In The West tune score thing going on, but to even laugh is quite painful at times, like watching horror.

I loved this movie, what an exciting and fascinating way to explore love and greed. By making it a pandora's box, the bow of all evil and by really breaking conventions and telling the audience how wonderful the cinema is, to create such masterpiece as this film. I honestly believe Lynch is not just a great contemporary director, but a splendid director of all time.

A fantastic movie, very minimalist but not in terms of its design but in its portrayal. It was very beautifully shot and the characters were reallly interesting. From the first sequence of events, I knew what was going to happen later on and I was right, it was blatantly obvious, but the horror of it and the cathartic reaction was so supreme, I was really extremely down and just wondering. It is not hopelessly emotional but very experiential, the similarities of the problems was well evoked.

Utterly beautiful, each shot was sublime and striking and everything was just ridiculously elegant beyond anything.

This is a charming and amzing piece of film by Godard. Quirky and charming, strange and yet captivating. A real class film, with camera shots being unique and later defining Godard's style in later films.

This is definitely a bloody funny show, an amazingly hilarious and controversial film with a really unique style all to its own...

An extremely philosophical movie, with themes of faith and redemption. I loved the fact that this movie had a strong built-up of character and a very unique of shooting its scenes, very extravagant and epic but yet subtle and elegant, with a point of building up the film to its highest point and blowing it over. I was hugely surprised and I must say that Francis Lawrence is a director that I think highly of now.

Enjoyable, I like Amy Poehler a lot, really was fun seeing her here and she played her role really well. It's cliche and very typical and expected, had lots of flaws, but it wasn't a total loss.

A splendid movie, visually brilliant, though this film won at Cannes, I prefer 'Landscapes in the Mist' more than this out of the three of Angelopoulos films I've watched. The story is just resplendent, very stark and daring with some amazing, probably Gothic influenced shots like those at the border. A director who knows how to use the camera and mise-en-scene and not just a story.

I can't say I liked this a lot, some of the shots were engaging and normally I'm a fan of these kinds of movies where you have mythology involved but not here. Some nice effects but the scare was lacking. I might give it a go again when it arrives on DVD soon.

Probably one of the more interesting dream sequences I've seen. An interesting take on the Oedipus myth and its mystical reality with modern life. A tale of innocence and its beauty and yet its fragility. Wonderfully captured on film by Pasolini.

I'll be really honest, I hate it when people use Argento's name in vain. I won't spoil it, but please know something about Argento if you use his name. I'm extremely biased, therefore I loved this movie for one thing, the last scene and I liked the music a lot. Imagine using music that ciontrasts heavily with what is being mentioned on the film itself, like a fight-off between emotional music and politically and socially charged tunes, that was fascinating and it worked well with Ellen Page's character when she relates with the future on-screen father, their contrasting tastes basically work against each other. The script and dialogue was a little childish a lot of times, the directing saved this and made this a beautiful movie.

Wow, a really charming film with a nice ending, an utterly well-made film, not sappy, but happy and one where each action is very engaging.

The second of Weir's film based in Australia. I find this film, probably one of my favourite ones ever. Very, very and utterly disorientating.

A lot of times when I watch supernatural thriller, they sort of make it too Hitchcock in style or it just doesn't draw you in. I hate that. This is the supernatura, how can it not draw you in or at least make you know what is it. For this movie, we see a lot about transitions and discovery, the theme of something forlorn. The camera really helps in that, when it moves, it is an uneasy disturbing movement, making transitions difficult, we see that in the aborigines living in a city, their culture absorbed into a metropolis, a city not their own. The lead character is driven mainly by curiosity and then later, by sheerempathy, these people talking about premonitions and him having it. I personally thought it's a fascinating film, about the thin line between rational, pragmatic and tradition white, Protestant thought in conflict with the world as it is and also in conflict together with and against the primitive, primordial andantediluvian beliefs of a people, barely tainted by the New World, spiritually if not physically.

I adored this film, it feels like as if it is going to tell something really heavy, but the entire mood and the feel makes it more dreamy and smoky and feels up your mind into a state of confusion that is just riveting. An odd film, but a very interesting one.

A nice movie about love in a city from different perspectives. An eye-opener kind of movie.

I adored this movie, making a film where a canal, which is being trespassed becomes a very huge part of the life and going-ons of a family is just fascinating. The characters seem real and the development of them is one of the most brilliant i've seen.

Amazingly brutal. The acting and the scenarios were so brutalistically real and I mean that word even if it don't exist. The scenearios, where you just have them going about and exploring Taxi Driver & Scarface references is definitely a work of genius. Beautiful.

If you ever needed to describe beauty on film, in both raw and in developed form, it has to be here in this film.

An extremely disturbing portrayal of a person's degenrative decline into its atavistic state by means of a personal trauma that is both base and primal. This perception of what is beautiful is explored all the time by artwork that is both natural and magnificent, this film is above all else an exploration of what is subjective and what is objective, in my opinion, an under-rated masterpiece.

What a disturbing film, the earlier parts were truly horrific at times. I loved the ending, it keeps you from wondering about how much a man needs to justify his life even on death.

One reason why this is badass. In 'Once Upon a Time in America', you have a good guy who wants to kill bad guy but before that he helps him as he wants to personally kill bad guy and not others. Here, you have a bad guy who lets his own bad guys get killed as he wants to stay alive to kill another bad guy. Now, I don't know if there's any particular similarity, but I don't care, this is still a badass movie.

An awesome plot-twist, and wicked killings. I loved how it was done in the end. The movie moves slowly in the start, the murders are not all over but in paces, but it eventually comes to an end and you just go 'Sweet' and then, you know this was an awesome movie by an awesome man.

Ridiculous yet outrageously innovative. The techniques emplyed for sound here is a masterstroke, really bringing out pure cinmatic conventions and blending a new form with the old and really proving how cinema stands out. Absolutely whimsical and fun, no one will be left sad or depressed watching this film.

Not Franco's best in my own subjective opinion but I could be wrong, it could be his greatest. The narrative was all over the place and there were a lot of striking, funky shots, looking into camera and the roles just suited fine for each character, like Christopher Lee in particular. Very different from the other Dracula movies by Herzog, Murnau and Coppola, which is good since they all differ too.

Extremely cutthroat in its content and very gruesome scenes. That blow thing used at the start was seriously wicked. I really startled a moment when I saw that. It is a genuine tale of people who just cannot handle this world, to put it plainly, where tossing coins and shooting birds are the way to go.

An absolute delight, a film in a play, a farce is a tragedy, everything about this film is perfect, proof of Carne's genius.

I adored the camerawork, the story was well paced and it was really a beautiful movie.

There's one thing not mentioned about this movie or I've yet to have seen it and it's the script. The script here is a wonderfully strange and brilliant script and dare I say innovative. The characters were done in an odd way, the male charactor had more or less dull dialogue but it was very interesting, like when he talks with Ashley Judd's character outside the house early in the film and he is talking about his father being a preacher, I think that had a lot of meaning, it gave out a lot of the character. I loved when the ex came home he said he had a sweet tooth, it was a very interesting trick as I thought this would be a movie on bugs, like big bugs. The directing was masterful too, a lot of tricks and fascinating plants, like the supermarket scene and the name 'Lloyd'. The phone-call is a mystery still.

As ridiculous as this movie might look at times, this was a film that talks heavily on the youth, by slanting a piece of literature to modern times and yet retaining its medieval settings, we see a beautiful and dangerous work on the troubles of youth in their time.

Bad-ass, the action, the homour, the fights and the Singapore.

More visual than anything else, but the effort to detail here is very good, a fascinating depth and continuity applied. Some people say the gore is done a lot but for me, it feels like the visual elements heighten it. I was wondering what's the significance of the pig, the masks and all, there has to be a reason and this detail is what's going to hold the series together.

In terms of depth or any brilliant plot, it doesn't have much except what you learn at every film school, a 3-act, a very typical 3-act with a sub-conscious goal, a conflict and so on, but the beauty and gentle manner of its tale, by making it all simple and not harping on things like evil and jealousy except where necessary, like the wiitch, but everywhere else, the prince who kill their brothers, it doesn't push it, even though we know it's bad and this gentle take on fantasy is what I find totally rivetting.

Awesome film about bikers who are also virgins and the havoc they create. I quite liked the dubbing, I thought it was hilarious and yet intriguing, poked my curiosity as a whole. I also thought that the way it worked was extremely fun, I mean, the compound was so odd, it seemed to have no continuity for some reason at times, like where is this and so on, but it really just made it more badass.

A beautiful movie and a brilliant poster too might I add. This film really shows what an individual is in this world, a mule, not just for drugs but on overall, how abuse is all the way down, where if you don't have responsibilities, you have to get one or support one and your happiness is not there. I fully loved this movie even if the shots were very typical but the direction was pure emotional mastery.

Pretty pkay, a little better than OK....

I feel this is a nice movie, where we see the character, the female, just at a loss, confused and always losing out. It had a very Rohmer feel to it, but the thing was, the scenes at Paris were really odd, they left me feeling that, unlike Rohmer's ending which has a beautiful impact a lot of times and always feel the same for his movies, here, it brought out something else. Overall, a fascinatingly interesting movie though.

A splendid film. The early part of the film is fantastic and has this hypnotic, stoner effect, where the images and dialogue exist to make you twirl in your mind. I love the the entire mood of the film, of wandering of wanting something of proving something, of human foibles and frailties, it was a film of discovery and it had a very severe effect in tis display.

This film almost made me close to vomitting, very close, like the food moved up a notch of an inch if it did. But I loved this film a lot, for one reason. Miike is a pupil of Imamura and Imamura was a pupil of Ozu. This film is like an ozu in theme and it was done like it but had no relation at the same time and yes, grotesque and macabre and breast milk spilling everywhere is not Ozu, but the content and the mastery of material, this is the continuation if his ideas, if not pure, but is clarity.

A brilliant film, a very strong satire on the fascist regime, blows you back and makes you think about mankind as a whole, I don't think it is just an attack on fascism, but an attack on government holding full power, power to do anything it desires. It is really a powerful messagr and each scene goes into what it talks on. The scene where one of them has sex with one of the outsiders, where one of them commits suicide out of guilt, everything seems to represent something, a collage of scnes, without caring for the plot, but just the images, avery well done piece of cinema.

This film is seriously trippy, done in Sokurov's trademark style, this is a really beautiful in how it evokes this cinematic landscape and links it with another powerful visual art, where memories collide to create this smooth subjective juxtaposition where after watching, you just believe than in serenity there lies greater and evil truths. The line where the Dutch says he believes in the goodness of man and also in his evil was wonderful.

It beats the first hands down and seeing the deleted scenes, I will say that this film did something right in its editing, well chosen shots and those superfluos stuff that were deleted were rightly done.

I'm biased, I love revenge films. The entire idea of vengeance is just amazing. Watch this with 'Rolling Thunder', both has the same idea but very different. I also love the cinematography for this, I was crawling on my seat when I was watching the camera move in the car-park, it was that cool. I like Keven Bacon too.

This is the first Bergman film I watched and focused mostly on the visuals then the dialogue. This film really gets you totally smitten with its charcaters a lot, you see how minimalist the film is, but the development is startling and engaging, you notice a lot between the sisters and you can see how it all goes about. The imagery is top-notch. If you don't understand Swedish and watch this without subtitles, you will be able to know everything just by the images, the frog, the sword and the way the crooks die. This movie, is theatre on film, done brilliantly well.

The dialogue, the acts, the scenes are all too way typical. It can get on your nerves, I liked John Goodman a lot.

I adored this movie a lot as much as I adore other movies by Tim Burton, the movie was exciting and energetic and hugely entertaining and was a fine piece of tragedy very much in the British vein. Every shot was perfection, every character acted well and the blood and the deaths and ultimate denouement were a macabre delight for any fan of tales like this.

Holy god, a film that works with cinema as it already is and does a wonderfully brilliant job. A beautiful Masterpiece, no less.

A brilliant film, the acting is just startlin and the whole scenes and the way it's set out is awesome.

The lighting for this film was splendid personally as were the shots. Not lurid, not sexual and few murders, the thrill was very smoky, it is best watched when high, not meant to be attentive, that's personally why I like it, the plot is complex but it doesn't distract or irritate you.

Savini must be proud of this, easily matching up with the director in terms of quality and even in terms of output. But Romero did a great job with this film, by using certain old methods of storytelling coupling with this tension built up plot of collision with lots of subtleties not just inmessage but in image. I really liked how ethical questions and even the idea of military versus cicilians was placed here, offering us a 'what if' situation.