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The Canyons review

Badly acted, badly written, badly shot and badly edited. I watched it because I thought it might have some aesthetic atmospheric quality but it does not. I like Lindsay Lohan but she is sleepy eyed and raspy voiced through out. The cast did not have any chemistry. There is literally no reason to watch this unless you actually get some enjoyment out of films which are horribly put together.

Palme review

I am not one for historical-political documentaries but this was very, very well done. Going into it I was like do I really care about some rich while male politician and all the political bullshit and ugh the boredom that will surely begin. But I was wrong. The film doesn't just cover Palme's life (a man who in contrast to US politicians seemed to legitimately stand for what he believed) but the history of his time period: The assassinations of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, Vietnam, Chile, social change, the works. It was fascinating to watch the world literally changing before your eyes and very informative.
The movie starts with Palme in an interview saying he believes his goal and the purpose of politics is to make life on earth decent for people. Having a movie start by echoing your own closely held beliefs is a pretty good sign.
Palme was anti-racism, pro-immigrant, absolutely anti-violence and he fought for peace. He was a charismatic socialist known for getting himself involved in one too many issues.
It's a bit ironic that they had Desmond Tutu in the documentary- a man who's famously said that to be neutral in times of oppression is to side with the oppressors.
The movie comments that Palme was very much hated by a great many but doesn't delve too deeply into the justification for such hate, simply passing it off as a fad to hate the prime minister. The part where the sons are talking about how their classmates told them they hoped their father would die was quite horrible. But the most shocking was definitely the images from the US bombing Vietnam.
I wondered over the ending for a little but I understand it now as him saying that no matter how prejudice is couched in intellectual theory or ideology, prejudice is prejudice is prejudice.
It was a very good movie.
The movie starts with Palme in an interview saying he believes his goal and the purpose of politics is to make life on earth decent for people. Having a movie start by echoing your own closely held beliefs is a pretty good sign.
Palme was anti-racism, pro-immigrant, absolutely anti-violence and he fought for peace. He was a charismatic socialist known for getting himself involved in one too many issues.
It's a bit ironic that they had Desmond Tutu in the documentary- a man who's famously said that to be neutral in times of oppression is to side with the oppressors.
The movie comments that Palme was very much hated by a great many but doesn't delve too deeply into the justification for such hate, simply passing it off as a fad to hate the prime minister. The part where the sons are talking about how their classmates told them they hoped their father would die was quite horrible. But the most shocking was definitely the images from the US bombing Vietnam.
I wondered over the ending for a little but I understand it now as him saying that no matter how prejudice is couched in intellectual theory or ideology, prejudice is prejudice is prejudice.
It was a very good movie.

Coffee Town review

The comedy was very good but the other parts of it- when it tried to be serious- were kind of mundane. I would recommend watching it for some of the clever jokes, not the storyline or the characters.

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Hollywood doesn’t make good rom coms anymore so this is a rare treat.
The way she and the writers treated the secondary guy was super awful but otherwise a nice movie.
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Josephine Langford really looks like Eliza Taylor land a bit like Amber Heard. And honestly like Lili Reinhart as well. Hollywood is just hiring the same face over and over.
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I adore this show. It’s special. With a title like “Children Ruin Everything” you’d expect a run to the bottom for drama’s sake show alla Shameless. But it doesn’t. It shows trials and tribulations but always balances that out with joy and genuine intimacy.
In a world where shows portray only the chase of love as worth the viewer’s time, this show shows the joy of actually having love. It portrays a couple who are actually partners facing problems together, rather than breaking up the moment they get together or have to face anything.
Ugh I love them. And it really highlights what’s wrong with the rest of TV.
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This movie encapsulates the feeling of heart break. Fuck. Made my chest ache. So well acted. And that breakup speech near the end made me cry like a baby.
Could've used a little better editing. And some part of me wants more info on why their relationship ended and wants to fight it but there you go.
2 years, 8 months ago
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Well shot. Slow and moody. Definitely not happy.
-Don't know why they had the younger version of her be so emotionally dead and yet singing and making a career out of expressing herself after a tragedy. Feels completely off and inhuman. Maybe they were trying to portray naivety but just comes off making the film seem more strange. But maybe that sort of unemotional shallowness is part of what the movie portrays.
Adult version seems to speak in shallow lyrics.
Lack of connection between pop lyrics and real life.
So terrible pop is the devils music? Way too long of a terrible performance at end. Almost makes me hate music. But the length of terribleness does leave an impact and make you view musical performances in a new way.
And then the movie ends without tying up anything. Ok. I always feel like a movie is leading to something when it decides to be something else.
Character study on loss of innocence/ emotional depth.
After thinking about it a while it's certainly a moody, well shot film that I won't forget too soon and its comments on the current culture via pop music have point. It's definitely purposely strange, leaving many gaps in the story for you to wonder at, and almost surrealistic.
2 years, 8 months ago
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Male centric, all important characters men.
Women mostly decoration, around men. Represent family. When shown, shown in domestic role or as love interests. Not included in family business somehow.
Women often shown outside of knowledge of events, sometimes comedically. Ignorant of what matters.
In cases of female victimhood- shown in beginning and explicitly in sister scene. Women do not have agency to avenge. Men avenge for them and the pain of women's abuse is made their pain. Kind of progressive but also not. Shows pain of domestic abuse but main actor accused of it and yet they gave him employment. Irony.
Domestic violence scene. When she finds out he's cheating, holds knife so ineffectually.
Mother character not shown, just referenced. Only see her back up until mid of the movie. Completely patriarchal.
Movie based on plot of feuding families but no great moral seems to come of it?
+Racism
Piece of patriarchal media history.
2 years, 9 months ago
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