I guess it’s something of a testament to the fingerprint of a director for me, about 3/4’s in, to have been like “I’m getting Okja vibes from this movie for some reason” (a film I only half watched once while extremely hungover so like not well enough to remember any of the salient plot points at ALL) to then Google Okja afterwards and find out it is indeed by the same director - at the same time tho this isn’t…
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The Forgotten Battle 2020
watched this in the throes of food poisoning so was very in and out; thoroughly entertained by the one character I don’t think I ever saw say a single thing as a result tho, whole time he’s just looking mournfully distressed with a mouthful of dirt
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Barbie 2023
I LOVED the entertaining parts of this film, like I loved them, and I could eat Ryan Gosling with a spoon, however I’ve been going round and round and round in my head and I can’t get over how directionless the overall message is; the relationship between the mum and daughter which dresses itself up as kind of a central conflict is drastically underdeveloped too - I can’t even remember their character names lol.
it’s funny because like, if this…
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Orion and the Dark 2024
usually you can work out the moral or lesson or feeling of a kid’s film during the final third even if you only start watching it from that point - in the final third of this film a time travelling character called Tycho was introduced who my family assured me had literally never been previously mentioned, and I think that sums up the overall narrative cohesion of Orion quite nicely
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