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Oddity 2024
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A truly unsettling opening nine minutes. But in the end, not a great movie. For me, the fastest way to make a scary movie unscary is to have it turn to ghosts and other supernatural nonsense. Real people are much scarier.
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Juror #2 2024
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The biggest flaw in this movie is the fundamental weakness of the evidence against the defendant, so weak its hard to believe it would ever go to trial, much less convince a jury of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Much of what is done with the primary characters in the story is an interesting study of morality and justice, but I couldn’t get past how fundamentally flimsy the evidence was in the court case that framed the story.
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Your Name Engraved Herein 2020
One significant bit I'm sure many non-Mandarin speakers will miss. Near the end, the two now older principals say goodnight to each other, and then repeat it, more than once. One of the characters earlier in the movie provided the explanation of the word goodnight's significance, though it really doesn't make sense if you don't know the Mandarin. The romanisation of the Mandarin word for good night is W-A-N-A-N. The explanation is that the word means "I love you love…
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EO 2022
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They stole the ending from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, another particularly loathsome movie, though at least the donkey wasn’t a nazi child.
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