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This is how Monty’s dog Doyle was found when he first saw him. He was severly injured. While Monty and Kostya were talking about how they could get in trouble, Monty brought up “Doyle’s law” and that’s why he named his dog Doyle.

Monty Brogan and his girlfriend Naturelle after Monty got beat up by his friend Frank

                     Why Should You Watch the Movie “25th Hour”?

The 25th hour is about a young man named Montgomery Brogan who gets busted for dealing drugs. Only it wasn’t a coincidence that he got caught; someone snitched on him. It’s about him and his last day of freedom, because on the next day he will have to make the decision to either report to jail or run, hence the title “25th hour”. During his last hours of freedom, he tries to find out who told the police that the money and drugs were in the sofa, goes out with his friends to try and have one last good night and also to find someone to take care of his dog Doyle for him while he’s in prison. Also, he comes to the conclusion that he must go into prison looking “tough” and not as a “pretty boy”, or else he would be abused in prison. In this essay I am going to explain why you should watch “25th hour”.

I believe that you should watch the 25th hour because I believe it has a good moral behind it. It’s not very evident when you watch it, but you really have to think about it after you watch it. The moral that I think is in the movie is that you always have a choice that may follow by a consequence or a reward. In this movie, Monty chose to deal with drugs and pay the consequences of getting caught. He chose to leave Kostya with the Russian mobsters instead of killing him himself with the reward of not getting caught and most likely getting put in jail for life, he chose to not tell the police about Uncle Nikolai, with the reward of Uncle Nikolai not killing him in revenge. At the end, the decision he makes on whether to go to prison or run is unknown, however either decision would have came with a consequence and a reward. If he chose to report to prison, he would be apart from everyone he knows and suffer the consequences jail brings him, but with the reward of doing all of his time and getting it over with and learning a lesson. If he chose to run, a consequence would have been that he got caught by the police and sentenced to more than 7 years in prison, or the reward would be the life that his father describes to him, the life that he has the potential to have.

I think people should watch this movie because I think everyone deserves to know that they always have a choice. I also think people should watch this movie because they get to see what happens to people that make the wrong decision, they get to see what they go through. This would be especially good to watch for people that are currently making the wrong decision in life like dealing drugs, smoking, doing graffiti, stealing, etc.  I think it would be good for them to watch because it will show them that if they do get caught, they will regret what they’re doing for probably the rest of their life. Doing those bad things can really negatively affect someones life forever.

In conclusion, I think people should watch 25th Hour not only because of the reasons I listed above which is that it has a good moral to it, but also because it’s a good movie. I liked it a lot. It’s a serious movie but also really funny at the same time. I like movies like that because it’s always good to laugh, you don’t want to be serious all the time while watching a movie. I think that’s a good accomplishment; to make a serious movie but add comedy to it. That’s hard to do, so that’s one of the reasons why I really liked this movie and also why I think people should watch it.

Dido today (taken in early 2011)