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Filosofi Kopi 3 (2022)
Interesting film depicting Indonesian rural land extortion but the directing wasn't well executed
This movie needed way better character development of explaining the relationship of the main characters. Better also have made the story antagonist more believable.. they just seemed silly and half-witted-- not like guys who could organize arranged kidnappings.
I don't know, the storyline I thought, the film portrayed the villager life well and the conflicts/exploitation currently happening in the modern world to.
As the movie developed, once the main characters got to the village, the movie took a turn from interesting to lack luster: less thrilling and frankly, cheesy. Typical 2020 storyline of how the women (and a boy) save the day overtaking armed thugs with arrows and advanced martial arts? Just lol. And how all of a sudden the Main characters can fight? Why the hell did they not just fight to begin with? So many questions...
Anyhow the Yahyan Ruhian fight scenes never disappoints.
Our Father (2022)
A doc with all so much potential
I was excited for this documentary from the trailer .. It had all the elements for a great exposé: doctor who heinously secretly inseminates more than 60+ women with his sperm, impacts the lives of his children and their mother's upon finding out. Instead, the main focus is of a over medicated, absolute 'Karen' named Jacoba who obsesses with psychoanalyzing her biological father's reasoning for inseminating multitudes of women . Though I definitely think this man is unethical and crazy.. I feel like Jacobas story was not at all compelling since her mother agreed to an anonymous donor anyhow.
There's a lot of conspiracy theorizing as of the father's motives but no one really knows why he did what he did. They posit he is a racist man trying to make Aryan babies, fundamentalis, and of course my favorite a rapist.
The main character Jacoba whines and fear mongers I believe even to the other siblings . She seems gung ho for attention as does the reporter who investigates the case.