"Heavy is the head that wears the crown" is perhaps the best way to describe Bong Joon-ho's daunting task of following up one of the best films of the past decade, Parasite. Once again, the filmmaker returns to the sci-fi genre to explore his signature social critique. However, rather than a direct adaptation, this film takes only loose inspiration from the book on which it is based, serving more as a reinterpretation than a faithful translation.
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Returning to the stunning landscapes of the southern Mediterranean coast, Paolo Sorrentino brings us Parthenope (2024). While in The Hand of God (2021), we explored fragments of the director's childhood in the 1980s, as a kind of semi-biographical film, this most recent feature is a much more poetic and symbolic journey, where we follow the life of the young Parthenope (Celeste Dallas Porta), named after a siren from Greek mythology, within the society of 1960s Naples.
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Each generation has his own TMNT version and clearly this one targets the very young people of Gen Z: very aware of hisself, some references to anime and videogames and of course the humuor. The Teen part of TMNT plays a major role here than the other encarnations of the turtles, putting them on the context of today's dynamics (social media, superhero gaze, etc). This where the movie shines, specially for the wholesome message it delivers.
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On Embargo. But pretty much Ragnarok 2.0, with +/- same humor , more drama, focus on the relation between Jane/Thor, which makes it MCU first romance movie. Christian Bale nails as The Godbutcher.
