The only thing serious about this movie is its initial concept of exploring a dwindling niche business spritually related to our beliefs about death and the afterlife. The actual execution not so much. The maker looks like he knew he was out of his depth half way through (too late in my opinion) so he switched the focal point to something more familiar to the audience, the social-familial conflicts among and of the old shaman and his son and daughter.…
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Indochine 1992
I kind of lost it when we reach the part the lady bangs the officer in the car under the rain. I made the mistake to persist in spite of the farmers’ horrible Vietnamese accent. I facepalmed when the daughter fell in love with the officer at first sight as she woke up half stripped in his arm. Whoever made this film probably was proud of their idea to have this saccharine French privileged class love drama unfold in Indochine society…
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Working Girls 1984
it’s kind of hard to thoroughly enjoy Bernal’s purported pro-feminist messages, when they are constantly paired with lewd, uncomfortable male gazes and the scriptwriter’s simple, somewhat outdated (however time-appropriate) idea of female empowerment. Perhaps, the issue lies not with the movie, but how certain representations are not translated well across cultural and temporal barriers. This applies to most of the movie, in fact. It’s either empty or full of smart political innuendos. Comedy material is either hilariously B-grade, or is…
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