I walked into this completely blindly and now regret that I did. I liked the idea behind the movie, but the execution didn't convince me, nor did it convey the emotions that it wanted to convey. The first half felt like an edit of well-produced commercials at Christmas time: the nuclear family in the living room, a few generations, a glimpse into different lives but somewhat superficial as "People in different situations". The second half got more depth in my opinion, but couldn't make up for the feeling of supermarket, life insurance and credit company commercials in the first half.
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Wunderschöner 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Ich will nicht mehr kämpfen, ich will auch mal was anderes machen.
Puh, so viel in diesem Film, der mich zum Lachen, aber vor allem auch ganz viel zum Schlucken und Weinen brachte. Über die Realität der Sexarbeit, über Rollenerwartungen, über Care Arbeit in der Familie und Beziehung, über Hoffnungen und Träume und das Nichtgehörtwerden.
Und ja, wäre eine Welt nicht schön, in der Frauen* sich gegenseitig unterstützen und zusammenhalten? Wie stark es uns macht, wenn wir nicht gegeneinander hetzen,…
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Secretary 2002
This film is about a sadomasochistic workplace relationship, but to be honest, watching it to the end is the most masochistic thing associated with this film.
A story about a mentally unstable woman being manipulated into an S/M relationship by her boss is potentially worth telling. However, this feels like a bad romanticisation of it; manipulating her into submission as a freeing character development? I don't know. It might have been a better film if their S/M relationship wasn't tied to mental illness and more to actual consent.
It was very funny that he was called Mr Grey. Did that also inspire E.L. James' fanfiction?
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