However tragic the story was, I am completely in awe of the mini-series as a whole.
One-Take film is always impressive to me, but I've rarely seen it done properly outside of arthouse films, where there's not so much talking. The fact that each episode is a one-take, with such an expressive and deep, yet subtle, script, makes this one of the best things Netflix has shat out in recent years.
I am also very impressed by the great and…
This has to be one of the worst films I have ever seen.
For years I have had this irrational hate for Okja, even though I had never actually seen it - two friends of mine converted to veganism because of it... And now that I actually have seen the film, I find that even more stupid than I did way back then.
Bad writing, bad CGI, bad soundtrack, bad acting. It's a clusterfuck of bad.
And with the film ending in the way that it did... What was the point of the whole thing?
It's a mess.
It is simply not funny.
I feel the Cunk brand has kind of lost its magic, probably due to the higher budget and the backing of Netflix - making it a bit too American to be enjoyable.
Though it's always clearly been a mockumentary program, the high production value skits and the use of b-list actors kind of break the suspension of disbelief. Because of this you start wondering if there is actually a 'real' element anymore, to anchor it…
I have been watching Sono's films as some sort of cinema-lobotomy and because of that I did not expect to find something so heartfelt and beautiful within his filmography.
The actors in this are just people, all with their own backgrounds and bagage. The interesting things happen especially when those individual's personal bagage starts to overlap, intertwine and interact.
Though the first half seems a bit slow, which can be a sono-fan deterrent, as per always it gets a pay…
