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The Lost Daughter (2021)
Faithful to the book
To all of you complaining about the rhythm, the end and all, I felt the need to come say: don't blame the actors or even the director.
The movie is very faithful to the book is was adapted from - which is great, btw, I suggest you read it.
It's about the pressures of motherhood and how women's careers, dreams and ambitions are viewed as less important than men's, and how suffocating being a single mother - even though the father is still there - can be. It's about love, guilt, regret.
And yes, I get it. The ending can be very disappointing, it can leave a feeling of "that's it??".
But I realize that in this case, the end doesn't really matter. It's all about the journey.
El hoyo (2019)
Not exactly a prison, but a social experiment.
Well, this is a great movie that leaves room for many hypothesis. One of them, for me, is that the place was not exactly just a prison, but hosted a social experiment.
We see the protagonist guy getting in by choice. Seems like he did nothing wrong to be there. They filled a form with his info (including his favorite food, wtf whas that about?) and he would get a certificate for staying there, as he said. But the old man said he knew nothing of a certificate, and that he was sent there for accidentally killing a man (it was that or a psychiatric facility). So the old man is clearly a prisoner. My theory is that the experiment took prisoners and volunteers (that were probably very rare).
The whole logic of that system seemed like an experiment, and that woman who used to work there trying to chance people's behavior, plus the two man on the platform trying to take food for the people on the lower levels, all that really made me think there was a purpose in all. I even thought there would be people watching from cameras in each floor. Wouldn't that be interesting (and kind of messed up)?
Unfortunately, by the end of the movie I believed I was wrong. But who knows? It's a possible interpretation.
I saw someone here with a very interesting theory about eating just your favourite food, in that way, everyone would be able to eat, and for a moment I was convinced this person had figured it out (that would be a great reason for asking that question in the beginning). But then I thought... 333 floors... 666 people (wow, check this number! Maybe the whole thing is Hell), there is no way that platform could fit so many dishes, even if a lot of people shared the same favorite food. A great theory though.