Kultur: (About) 100 Words on...The Hughes Brothers' The Book of Eli

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Kultur: (About) 100 Words on...The Hughes Brothers' The Book of Eli

(About) 100 Words on...The Hughes Brothers' The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli

Directed by Albert and Allen Hughes

Alcon Entertainment/Silver Pictures

2010

The Book of Eli is not exactly the type of movie one expects Hollywood to make. Never mind that typical blockbuster fare is at best propaganda, The Book of Eli turns the tables by retelling the story of the aftermath of Rome's fifth century fall. The world is 30 years post apocalypse and life is cheap. Denzel Washington plays Eli, a drifter protecting a mysterious book. Except that this book would only be a mystery to a blind moron with a brain infection. It is the Bible, stupid. Eli protects the book from the literate and diabolical Carnegie (Gary Oldman) . Eli enters into cahoots with Solara, played by Mila Kunis (That '70s Show, where is Kelso when you need him), bringing the book to the American equivalent of the Irish shore to be copied by the post nuclear equivalent of Irish Friars. Sadly predictable with some first rate ass-kicking.