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Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Really well done. Haven't seen a movie this good in a long time.
I have read many reviews of this movie and I believe they all entirely miss the mark. This movie isn't about revenge at all. It is about the nature of male/female relationships at this current time.
The dancing figures at the beginning are majorette/fertility goddesses. They are all representations of the universal woman and the artist, Susan. "All women turn into their mothers." Susan appears sitting on a slab in a green dress, the current incarnation of the fertility goddess herself. The dancing/dead women are there to represent the life cycle: birth, death, rebirth. But the dancing goddesses/majorettes are depicted as old because the male/female relationship is played out and no longer fertile.
The men in the story, every single one of them including the killers, are weak and lost without female boosterism and direction. The first husband, Edward, demonstrates that he at least realizes this because it is the theme of his novel. The murderer states that he only does what women accuse him of doing. The sheriff disappears after he kills the first murderer leaving "weak" husband Tony alone. And Tony, in true bungler fashion, ends up killing himself. They are all lost and incompetent.
The sign "revenge" alludes to women taking their revenge on men, other women and themselves by assuming the typical male role in the boardroom and elsewhere in frustration over their disappointment in men. Note the sterility of the environment, the dominatrix female, and the all-female staff.
In death, as in life, women (the mother and daughter in an eternal embrace, the women on the slabs) have only themselves to count on, to love. They are alone. The men in their lives have faded away due to their own idiocy, evilness, and weakness. That is why Amy sits alone, in yet another incarnation, in her green dress, reborn at the moment that her first husband died because she believed that his insight might mean that he had changed. His fictional death might be the acceptable sacrifice to the goddess. But just as every single other male character, even those alluded to, could not really connect with women or be relied upon, Edward remained the ever disappointing male.
I could say a lot more about the movie's meaning but know it isn't about revenge. It's about the nature of men and women and their relationship. And Amy is an artist. It is her own performance art which is being depicted at the beginning. She is not just the curator at an art gallery. It's important to know.
Brooklyn (2015)
Chick flick and not a good one.
One of the marks of a bad movie is unmotivated or out of character behavior. That pretty much sums up this whole movie. The main character is set up to be sweet, loving, quiet, and innocent. She is forced to emigrate in order to have any kind of future. Then she goes to a dance with a new girl at the boarding house and treats her horribly for absolutely no reason. She remarks, based on nothing, that the girl is "awful." I guess the awfulness must have been edited out.
She marries hastily before returning to Ireland due to a family death. I mean this was set up to be a real love match and then continues to be that at the end; but, she gets involved with another man while in Ireland for absolutely no reason. She refuses to read or respond to her husband's letters, again for no reason. She never tells her mother she's married...you got it --no reason.
She seems to make her decision to return to the US based on the fact that she got busted for being married. But, her reaction to being busted is pure righteous indignation. How does that follow?
She's indifferent and withdrawn from her mother, and she spends her time working and running around while in Ireland for the funeral. Then she abruptly leaves with only a day's notice after being busted. I guess we're not supposed to care about the mother at all. It's only this little sweetie that matters.
Totally unsympathetic main character and false/unmotivated behavior add up to a really lousy movie. That's what this is.
The Revenant (2015)
Way too long
Another Indian/Good - White man/Bad movie. Too long. Too draggy. Too politically correct. Why was the Indian kid such a little bitch? Why was he screaming like that? The bad bad white guy had a real point there. The French were bad. The Angloes were bad. They drove off the Spaniards, apparently. Good thing we can all turn to the noble savage for instructions on clean, upright living. I thought it was really pathetic that they had to mention how many hours went into the making of the movie, like they're supposed to get kudos and awards based on effort instead of outcome. After floating down a river a few times, sleeping in a makeshift sweat lodge, sleeping in a horse carcass for no real reason, writing graffiti in an pseudo-igloo, digging, climbing, falling, cauterizing, baking, freezing, puking, crawling, the sob probably died of tetanus. How long can you watch this sort of thing and continue to be entertained? Three hours...nope. Oh, I know, this guy is supposed to be just so sympathetic based on the fact that he's almost an Indian that we're all riveted. Nope.
American Hustle (2013)
Awards mean nothing
How could this movie be up for awards? Are you kidding me? Truly a lousy movie not worth anyone's time. It's like there was no script and only the vaguest idea of what the plot was going to be. So much fill you won't believe it: people listening to music, people lip syncing, people dancing, people making out, lots and lots of boring make out scenes, people picking out and trying on clothes, personal grooming, pretty much anything to kill time without advancing the plot. The movie just drags to the point where you're screaming at the screen. It honestly is like anyone could just randomly come up with an idea for a scene and they went with it because they needed to fill time. The actors' behavior seems random and unmotivated at times. The characters are all pretty unlikable. And it honestly would not be possible to find an actress anywhere who would be more miscast in her role than Amy Adams. I'm going to say this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.