Empty, I feel empty.
Joker is an interesting and incredibly beautiful film that goes around in circles and doesn't really manage to tell us anything in 2 hours. The actors are strong and the light creates great images and shadows that drive us crazy. Unfortunately, the wrong kind of madness. Joker 2 is like a huge middle finger to all viewers. Every great idea from the first part is destroyed and all new ideas are pointless. Many ideas are touched…
A modern crime thriller, modern in terms of technology but not in terms of the narrative.
The film tells us about a murder on a train and how it is solved. A lot of CGI is used, many big moments are added to this simple plot to create a bigger spectacle. This artificial look is supported by clear costumes and make-up and at no point do you feel a connection to the characters. Everything remains on the smooth surface. The…
What are the different possibilities a life could have if this or that had happened? Who would we be today? What would we do? Who would we be with if a fateful encounter with another person had taken place. - Celine Song manages to dedicate a beautiful film to this feeling.
But the first part takes too much time and could have given these thoughts more space. The film thrives on a mood that is not easy to bear; Or to feel.
All in all a good movie, that just fulfills me the way many others do. Maybe it needs some time to grow…
Yorgos Lanthimos has created a masterpiece with Poor Things. The film shows how a pregnant woman takes her own life. The weird professor Dr. Godwin Baxter finds her and transplants the infant's still-living brain into the mother's adult body. This creates a kind of Frankenstein's monster. A child in the body of an adult woman. And this is how Bella Baxter behaves, who ironically always calls her “father” Godwin Baxter God. Bella doesn't care about society's conventions, she wants to…
