Started off promising, as an adaptation very faithful to the book, while subsuming the tone under longingly shot countryside and even a strange but charming author cameo.
However the writing should have been on the wall, when the movie disambiguates scenes from the book for pointless clarity. Seeming to not understand what the novel was about, in the last quarter, the baffling choice is made to downplay the repeated rape by multiple men, in favor of a mutual relationship, that…
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society 2006
While superficially quite similar to the rest of Stand Alone Complex, Solid State Society firmly lacks the depth the other cases had. Just like the Individual Eleven Case, it is about a (still) current topic, the way society fails to deal with it's aging population. Instead of havong something to say about it however, the movie is chiefly concerned with writing another thriller that idolizes how cool the Major is.
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The Kill Room 2023
This movie could have gone a lot of obvious ways, but just kind of chooses to be conventionally unique.
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The Patriot 1998
Very boring movie, however toward the end Steven Seagal breaks a wine glass and sticks the stem directly into the bad guy's head.
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