The crow - 1994

I always liked this film, its dark gothic atmosphere, because it was cool dark, not creepy dark, with its cool music and the crow flying around, with us seeing things from his eyes... and also because this invincible avenger out on a personal vendetta to kill the men that killed his girlfriend really is so sweet, so fragile, so much hurt inside, so full of sadness and desperation, I felt for him very much, and his pain and love was what made him go on.
"People once believed that when someone dies a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right." Right here, they explained all the plot, after less than a minute. It starts on October 30, called Devils night, and we're immediately on the crime scene, Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and Shelly Webster's home. They were to be married the next night, Halloween night, but now never will. They're both dead. One year later, a crow brings Eric back. He goes home, remembers, makes up his "mask" look and starts taking down all the scum that killed Shelly, and him.
My favourite lines:
 -"He was already dead. He died a year ago, the moment she touched her. They're all dead, they just don't know it yet".
 -"It can't rain all the time", what he says to Sarah (Rochelle Davis) before going away, so that she realises it has to be Eric, because it was one of his songs.
 -After killing Funboy (Michael Massee - has he always played crazy, psycopath murderers? Has he ever played a normal guy?), he takes time to take the drugs out of(Darla = Anna Thomson) Saras's mother's body, so the next day she's clean and at home to try and make breakfast for her daughter.
D-Do you like them up or over? I can't remember.
Sarah-What are you doing? I don't even like eggs. What did you take to become Mother of the Year?
D-No, it wasn't drugs. Someone kind of woke me up
S-Who?
D-Oh, it was nuts
S-You're acting weird. Did you win the lottery or something, Darla?
D-Forget it. I never was too good at this mommy shit
S-Over easy. I like them over easy ....  mom.
I love this bit, because Sarah's just a girl, and while she always plays it distant and cold and tough with her mother because that  woman's always wasted so Sarah wants to protect herself, she's not going to lose the chance that things might actually turn out good with her mom, that this time might really be different. Darla's clean now, but she's not strong: put her down and she might fall again; lend her a hand and she might grab it and find some strength in that hand.

The funny thing about the finale is that he was already going away, he had killed all of the Shelly's murderers that he knew about, but they just wouldn't leave it. They wanted to kill him, to destroy him by killing his crow, so they took Sarah to lure him in. They wounded the crow, so now Eric was no more invincible. The good cop Albrecht (Ernie Hudson) came to help him with the low level baddies, the crow took care of the woman, good crow! and Eric confronted the bastard. Eric was weak, he was losing, so he used the only weapon he had. So touching this bit, isn't it?? When Eric is defeated, but Sarah's in danger so he can't give up, he stands up and gives him all he's got. "I don't want it anymore. Thirty hours of pain! All at once. All for you" causing him to fall to his death. Good, now Eric can save Sarah :-)
"If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live long is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever."