The Bear - Great storytelling.... no words

How can you not love this 22 year old movie?  The production is shot impeccably by director Jean Jacques Annaud.  It's storytelling at its best - using almost no words.  And the actors?  A cougar and a bear.  Hard to get them to stick to their lines. 

PS - What a studly name.... Jean Jacques.  Paul sure sounds boring up against a Jean Jacques.  Maybe I'll change my name for a few days and check it out.

Doctors Without Borders: Boy

Medecins Sans Frontieres (that's french for Doctors Without Borders) serves up an incredibly powerful new commercial using one simple locked off image of a hut in Africa. But listen to the piece and read the subtitles and you'll see the power of simplicty at work. Simple, albeit horrible stories like this one.  Nothing fancy here, but the starkness of that hut and the lives of the children who you can hear, but not see, drive home the plight of all children that MSF helps in countries across the globe. 

This spot is not for the feint hearted... the title cards tell a harrowing tale along with the raspy whines of the child. the rattling of machine guns and the explosions of bombs in the distance.   It's compelling storytelling, plain and simple, which gets your attention.