Although I've seen people call this a realistic movie, nothing in it strikes me as real, in the sense of photographic realness that captures an event accurately.
Seen through the eyes of a 13-14 year old protagonist, with a wandering, moving camera that itself feels like a real participant in the movie (and thus the movie's persuasion is very powerful -- you feel like you are there with everyone), "Come and See" depicts a wartime nightmare of what it feels…
"Blue" is less a formal movie than a visual lyric dedicated to grief. You could say that the main character suffers terrible loss and, as the plot goes, she deals with it. That's it.
But wait, Kieslowski structured these Three Colors films around the French Revolution's three values, even though he downplayed that, and "Blue" is about liberty. I'm one to think that his movies, whether Three Colors or Decalogue, are in fact profound meditations on their topic.
How is…
Probably no other movie makes me feel like I walked into a mainline Episcopalian service in New England.
A lot of my followers like to judge a movie harshly by calling it "Oscar bait." In the case of "Cider," this bait is tuna-sized, for the capture of the great-white-sharks who make the nominations. Look up 1999 movies. Somehow "Cider" eclipsed probably the largest volume of very-good-to-great movies ever to get a Best-Picture Oscar nom.
The movie comes from a John…
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I'm getting to the end of my '90s watching project, and if I never see another paranoid-conspiracy thriller ever, thank the Lord. This movie puts me out of the mood for them.
It's possibly the most batshit crazy of these late '90s paranoid things. If I read it correctly, it gives the (possibly leftist) professor of political terrorism at GWU what he wants: an act of terrorism itself.
Also, if I'm reading it right, he's gaslit by not being gaslit!…
"Barbie" watches to me as if someone took an evolutionary psychology class, another on the Frankfurt School, and another on feminist philosophy. That person was so confused about how those might fit together that they made this movie, idealizing their favorite toy while undercutting it, only to promote Mattel in the end.
I have complained about the toyland movies I've seen in the last decade or more. The first "Avengers" watched as if it were a recreation of the toy…
Deliberately contextless, so as not to offend anybody, "Civil War" ends up being most obviously about . . . the nature of photojournalism?
Yep, and with the cliché of the youngster who wants to be an awesome photojournalist just like her idol, a journalist from Reuters. When said youngster decides to tag along with the world-weary veteran, only one of two things can happen -- according to the Laws of Mediocre Movies -- and one of them most certainly does.…
