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Perfect cast and a good story

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

...is what this movie wants us to believe. It strides off boldly in that direction without a second's reflection of its basic, flawed assumption that people are feral, rapacious, murderous and greedier than the worst animals are. Opening scenes show us women who willingly collude with misogynistic highway robbers, men killing each other for water and a supposed bible basher slaughtering a dozen people at a time. The 'hero' doesn't intervene when someone else's neck is on the line, though - for example, when a couple is being beaten and raped - oh no, fulfilling his quest is more important! Presumably, the additional message here is that preserving the alleged word of God is more important than the lives of innocent men and women, who are mere pawns in the quest to ensure 'something greater' survives. What could be greater than the human mind that creates these stories? Isn't destroying people to preserve a stupid book what countless inquisitors and jihadis believe to be right? How is putting a book above human lives meant to make the world a better place, when it apparently led to the near-annihilation of the human race just 30 years earlier? None of these questions are addressed or even asked. Many of the other assumptions that are made in this film are so gross, it seems like they must have come from someone who was raised with no other education aside from the bible. People never thought of sitting down and sharing food before the bible was written? Seriously?? Ancient artefacts from Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Meso America and all across the planet would beg to differ. Even monkeys and gorillas share their food, for crying out loud (even dogs do). Countless other civilizations have managed to survive huge calamities and upheavals and survive, without a bible. The directors ought to crack open a real history book sometime. They may be pleasantly surprised what they find there. I've personally also seen better use of this sort of black n white scenery in other graphic novel adaptations, like for instance, Sin City.

The Book of Eli (2010) This is a post-apocalyptic action film revolving around Eli, a nomad in a post-apocalyptic world, who is told by a voice to deliver his copy of book to a safe location on the West Coast. The film stars Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, and Jennifer Beals. The movie received mixed reviews from critics, but better reception by audiences. I saw it mostly due to the fact that Washington was in it. I've never watched a bad movie with him involved. No, wait, he is just able to make bad movies tolerable. He's just good that way. I'd go on, but this is a film review, not a biopic. This a decent film, for the genre. Not at the level of Mad Max, but still fairly good. If you like this sort of movie, it's definitely worth a try.

The story is set after 30 years the war took place on planet earth. Every copy of Bible has been burned as it was considered reason of war. Now Eli a blind man (who also gains vision) sets on journey asked to him by God himself. He carries copy of Bible written in Braille. Across his journey he comes across Carnegie who himself is in search of Bible. By violent means he gets his hands over The Bible Eli carries. His wife is blind, but she will not help him with reading that holy book because she knows he will only use it for bad. On other side Eli reaches his destiny and by now he has learned the sayings and Quotes given in The Bible. He gives them for printing so that it would not be out of reach from anybody else. Although the summary is written you have to watch the movie to see how engaging and great it is.Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography: War torn cities, villages, states, countries all without much of growth in field of development. Cannibalistic nature, destruction, getting hands over things of past, everything has been captured well.Tone: War torn earth after nuclear destruction has been the tone and it is captured well.Music: It is average.Acting: It is good.Final verdict: It doesn't matter which holy book it is. It's the theme you will get attracted to. It is worth watching again and again.

The Book of Eli features a post-apocalyptic wanderer and his treasured book. In fact, Eli's book turns out to be a rarity and the object of some envy and contention. Eli enters a town run by the despotic Carnegie. Carnegie wants the book to gain power and control people. When one of his henchman questions how a book can have such effect, Carnegie yells: "It's not an effing book; it's a weapon!" Eli, similarly, comes to objectify the book, albeit not as a weapon.At one key point in the film, Eli confesses to his co-traveler, Solara: "All these years I've been carrying it...I forgot to live what I learned from it." From the juxtaposition of Carnegie's and Eli's conceptions of the book, it's possible to surmise that the Hughes brothers want at least to communicate the point that ultimately this book is only as good or as bad as the people who use it. That's not a bad takeaway.This film features a great deal of clever interplay with the book, its contents, and the possessors of the book. In fact, this film does "inter-texting" like no other.It's all there in the double-meaning of the movie's title: The Book of Eli.In the most obvious sense, the "of" in "book OF Eli" is possessive. It's the physical book that Eli possesses, reads, memorizes, carries, protects.At the same time, because he has carried the book for so long (30 years!) he has had time to learn its entire contents by heart. In this sense, Eli has become the book, he IS the book. (Grammatically speaking, here the "of" in The Book of Eli functions as a genitive of apposition.) The double meaning of the book "OF" Eli sets up the ironic ending of the film. It also helps you understand the evolution of Solara, who begins as an unread novice but evolves into a book of her own.Perhaps there will be a sequel: "The Book of Solara"?