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Confronting a Serial Killer (2021)
"I'm his ultimate victim" - Jillian Lauren in Episode 2
Unbelievably distasteful production by a self-obsessed and self-serving Jillian Lauren.
In Ep 2 she actually says "I'm his ultimate victim" in relation to how hard it was on her to interview him about WOMEN HE KILLED. She says "we" when speaking of his victims regularly.
I really hope no victim family members were subject to this abominable insult of a so-called documentary. This is a serious topic that didn't deserve such a vapid and insipid treatment. Utterly disgusting and tasteless.
We get to see her in boxing class while she talks about "the emotional toll" it's taken on her. We get to hear about her drug use, her eating disorder, her mental health (or lack there of). All this victim-porn/self-aggrandizing is interspersed with snippets of interviews with Sam Little, victim's family, or survivors to provide the thinnest of veneers that this is a legitimate production.
Astonishingly tasteless.
Seven Days: Deja Vu All Over Again (2000)
Run Lola Run
A pleasant Run Lola Run clone, all the way down to the music.
Unhinged (2020)
I was rooting for Russell
Plus 5 for Russell, minus 5 for everyone else.
I doubt it was the intent, but I was rooting for Russell. The protagonist(s) have no appeal. At best they are annoying, at worst they are exhausting. (E.g. Rachel's unbearable, ever-present breathy inhalations sound like the actress has a collapsed lung or two.)
The Rockford Files: The House on Willis Avenue (1978)
"Our liberty may well be the price we pay for permitting this to continue unchecked."
This episode provides a shockingly clear example of how far we as a society have shifted on issues of privacy. "The House on Willis Avenue" aired in 1978. Now, we sign our soul away for the right to store everything about us on our preferred ecosystem. The episode ends with a warning that clearly we didn't heed. "Our liberty may well be the price we pay for permitting this to continue unchecked."
Mignonnes (2020)
This is not a family film, but it is not sexually exploitative.
It's a story about a socially inept, naive girl making bad choices in her interactions with her peer group, escalating her behavior, and paying the price. She's coping with issues at home poorly. These actions are predominately NOT sexual in nature, despite what the recent manufactured "outrage" would suggest.
Being hypercritical and attentive to the cries of 'child porn'... There was one dance where the camera lingered longer than I felt it needed to make its point. The dance on the stairs felt more "for the audience" than it did "for the characters" which admittedly feels weird when the dancers are 11 years old. And the final dance is probably the most "provocative", but it pretty skillfully acted as the climax where the realization of her wrong direction dawns on her. Up until this point we are experiencing the movie through the tumultuous mind of Amy, and it's not until this final dance that the view from the world around her starts to permeate, she is able to see herself from outside herself, and it finally breaks her feverish pace toward her heretofore unseen corruption.
One listen of Cardi B's new #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit "WAP" does immeasurably more damage, and promotes infinitely more sexualization of young females that this movie ever could. (Look up the lyrics at your peril.)
I gave it a 7/10, but I can't recommend it unless you're up for a painful portrayal of a troubled girl growing up in the modern world.
Final thought: It's funny to me that it took an entire nation's outrage to get me to watch a movie about dancing.