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Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
how scars remain
As some reviews have touched upon the lingering skew on reality that severe trauma causes can last and last and last. To capture this as the film did is no mean feat and delivers on the complexity and intracacy that victims and survivors endure and navigate, often in silence and unsupported.
Having not read the book and without any preconceived ideas what the film might be about helped to get immersed into the psyche of the charachter. The trauma, societal conflict, toxic masculinity, denial, and relationship dynamics that change as perceptions unfold and adapt was well captured in the writing and acting.
The messaging may overall be difficult to understand and grasp without experience, so it's understandable that this film may not resonate the same way with everyone.
Ted Lasso: La Locker Room Aux Folles (2023)
charachter crescendo
This episode was a great surprise from a charachter development point of view. Probably one of the best of the entire series with various personalitites stepping into charachter and acting upon lessons learnt, while keeping the contemplation and struggle 'real'. Truly a heart warming episode of paralell stories coming together to demonstrate how values and moral affect relationships and development perspective. Especially the Roy Kent press conference to the end brings the fragility of the individual to light and demeonstrates love, compassion and understanding, that epitomise empathy and kindness.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Don't waste your time.
45 min in, turned it off as it was getting annoying.
Cringe level: high.
The premise build is vaguely strung together via flashbacks that are literally flashes. Language is near impossible to follow as mixed with chinese and english and only partial subs (for the chineses).
Scenes are very short with incoherent dialogue. There is very little flow in any scene. Granted there is a lot going on, but it equates to a rather incoherent jumble of mediocre scenes and dodgy cinematography struggling to build anything resembling a storyline.
The storyline that does transpire is neither inviting or interesting.
This is one of those films where you wonder what anyone involved with the production was thinking. If this is what the editors could muster as a final version, then how bad must have the overall direction been?
The level of discomfort felt for the actors being required to enact the script, assuming there actually was one, was significant.
How this film can receive positive acclaim is bewildering.
No idea who is making the 5***** reviews, but they can't be real people.
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (2021)
Quite tremendous
Having travelled to most of the regions in the series many times, having friends in diffeent areas and having lived with italians, to witness such a wholesome, kind and endearing testimony to the beauty and complexity of Italy is quite magical.
With Stanley capturing the essence of the finer charachteristics of the italian psyche with his own background giving exceptional credibility and the obvious sincerity of his joy and identity in engaging with the people and experiences, the story told is such a love story that captures the viewer in a quite special documentary style production. This is a must watch for anyone. The cinematography, the cutting and audio are exceptional and really strike a note of closeness and realness. Kudos to Stanley for involving his family and bringing an intimate and private aspect to the storyline that really gives the entire narrative an excpetional angle of authenticity. Personally I truly hope there will be further series.
Wiener-Dog (2016)
We loved the film in its entirety.
Naming the dog cancer was genius and related to all "owners". Sequence of ownership is possibly "frock bomber professor", little boy, vet, married couple, Nanna and finally "inherited" to Fantasy. The mutual contact point being cancer (and the dog) throughout the movie is satirically stunning and facilitates an utter skew in the viewer composure, while imaginations are fueled with other probable narratives. My rating is not 10 for sake of the intermission, after which has the dog still in Ohio, but changing owner from the married couple to the old lady. The thread of all stories is cancer (little boy, professor, alcoholic Dad of brothers, Nanna). The final scene of Nanna awaking from a lucid premonition of her possible after-life, sees her awaken and discover she has "lost cancer". ...seeing the dog run over the same amount of times as main character-groups ("owners") of the doggy.
Why this is not clearly understood in 75+ comments is a bit strange and might be film-worthy in itself. ;)
Utterly strange is why a CGI doggy being run over is so shocking!? Simply makes no sense compared to so many other films e.g. Game of Thrones where people are dropping every few minutes. Why over exaggerate in that manner and humanly detach from the actual film?? ...and miss the final scene of Fantasy' eternalisation!