A vanity project about a vanity project.
Conventional and oddly weightless, the only aspect of this movie worthy of praise is Franco's committed performance. Otherwise I found myself thinking "I'd rather watch The Room again."
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Blade Runner 2049 2017
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A great film...that somehow manages to be more sexist than the original.
When not serving as plot devices to fuel the protagonists' development, the women in this movie are: gutted, gutted again, stomped on, shot point-blank, and drowned. Brutal dispatching aside, for a film whose plot is driven entirely by a female character, it's disappointing (not to mention a wasted opportunity) that there's no concern with giving the females their own voice.
That said, Blade Runner didn't need a sequel,…
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Silence 2016
Silence is a deeply personal, harrowing, beautiful, thematically dense masterpiece that should resonate with every viewer regardless of religious upbringing.
The film questions religious principle and what defines a true adherence to the faith. The Japanese peasants are devout; they clamor for physical trinkets and nightly rituals, but lack profound theological understanding. Late in the film, Ferreira explains to Rodrigues that Catholicism in Japan is fundamentally not the same in the Europe. This raises an interesting question about the different…
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