Vagina ex machina … 

Watching this today because Franz is dieing, inshallah not yet. And was looking forward to something like a crossover between House of Cards and Dan Brown, but then it turns out to after all be really blotted for any susbstance include the pseudo-substance in the last three minutes with the gender reveal - the vagina ex machina. Would have preferred for the cardinals actually to discuss something. Even the centerpiece speeches are completely forgettable, yes one…

I don’t know what I expected. This is the worst film I’ve seen for a long while, and I even saw megalopolis not long ago. That was bringing
Rome to America, and now this one is bringing America to Rome. “The Roman dream”, my ass. Such a hollow analogy, Hollywood is no narcissistic. This film is just about America. And mostly: about their moms and dads. The most oedipally triangulated film I’ve also seen in a while. Might be there…

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The true hero is the anarchist that killed her at the end. But even this the film fucks up by letting it be a phantasm by her bizarre freundin, Irma.

It's a complete upper class bored-of-life-to-death drama, where worldly all-powerful figures (women or not...) struggle with themselves and their ... diet. I really can't stand it - but it could have been told in an interesting way, asking why people (women or not, but…