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The narrative structure of this film is immensely confusing. I realise the exact same thing happened to Genghis Khan’s mother as later did to his wife. But this isn’t really something one can show concurrently and not expect the audience to be very lost, unless they know something about Genghis Khan or Mongolian tribal culture.
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Perfect Days (2023)
The casting is absolutely bizarre.
The lead is superb. His scenes it could be a top quality Ming-liang Tsai.
Everyone else - especially the lead supporting role of his nr 2 - are absolutely dreadful.
The actress playing his niece is fine. It's mainly that terrible nr 2, plus some of the extras.
The casting is absolutely bizarre.
The lead is superb. His scenes it could be a top quality Ming-liang Tsai.
Everyone else - especially the lead supporting role of his nr 2 - are absolutely dreadful.
The actress playing his niece is fine. It's mainly that terrible nr 2, plus some of the extras.
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Hadn’t necessarily been meaning to watch this (one of my second-tier favourite films, Coherence, stars Justin’s wife Emily Baldoni, and all this has made me think I wish she was in more films), but will have to hang around a cinema tonight where nothing apart from this is really showing, so I guess I’ll see what it’s about. And I guess it’s interesting in the sense of all the drama, marketing-wise.
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Perfect Days (2023)
The casting is absolutely bizarre.
The lead is superb. His scenes it could be a top quality Ming-liang Tsai.
Everyone else - especially the lead supporting role of his nr 2 - are absolutely dreadful.
The actress playing his niece is fine. It's mainly that terrible nr 2, plus some of the extras.
The casting is absolutely bizarre.
The lead is superb. His scenes it could be a top quality Ming-liang Tsai.
Everyone else - especially the lead supporting role of his nr 2 - are absolutely dreadful.
The actress playing his niece is fine. It's mainly that terrible nr 2, plus some of the extras.
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Hadn’t necessarily been meaning to watch this (one of my second-tier favourite films, Coherence, stars Justin’s wife Emily Baldoni, and all this has made me think I wish she was in more films), but will have to hang around a cinema tonight where nothing apart from this is really showing, so I guess I’ll see what it’s about. And I guess it’s interesting in the sense of all the drama, marketing-wise.
Did you already watch Blink Twice?
The movie is largely about DV, and I personally don't feel it did a very good job of tackling that subject, but to be fair, it would probably be very difficult for a mass-market movie to do a really good job of addressing the subject.
Did you already watch Blink Twice?
Did you already watch Blink Twice?
On DV, I am a lifelong fan of Wüthering Heights and think that, well, this kind of unhealthy/abusive relationship porn has endured for centuries for a reason. It does, I think, work really well as a story, it taps into something very primal and animalistic in human nature, if only that women are physically weaker and must always contend with the male capacity for violence. So in that sense, I rather boringly and predictably disagree. I wish there were more films being made that unabashedly portrayed these types of relationships where women choose not to leave, with no moralising, ‘moral lessons’, ‘empowerment’ and so forth. In terms of what appeals to me, on a narrative level, that would be a ‘mass market movie’, if you will, that’s about something else entirely but happens to feature an abusive relationship and doesn’t ‘interrogate’ that in the slightest. The Conformist is so much better for just showing what it chooses to show, including what one might call, I guess, that sort of violence, while not dwelling or moralising.
Anyway, I doubt I’ll like this very much, but there’s nothing really showing now that I’m interested in, so this’ll have to do. On Sunday I plan to watch Sing Sing which I’m even less enthused by.
Yeah, this is very lame. The psychology of how women end up in these situations is reasonably thorough here, imo, compared with most of this kind of stuff, anyway, but overall it’s just kind of boring (and the very deliberate attempt at a feminist ending of, ‘Oh but she’s going to stay single now! Forever! Like a strong woman!’ Lol. For ****’s sake. Not to mention even that didn’t work out in a clean manner).
What a demented mess of preachy garbage, holy hell.
What a waste of a night. Never trying chick flicks again. I am just genuinely lost as to what possesses people to make that sort of thing.
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Haven’t seen that yet. I’m hearing mixed things but might eventually get to it, who knows. Been reading about Durov due to the nature of my job, and even more convinced now that Tatum just doesn’t work at all for that type of persona. Gimme David Tennant, or something. But then, I’m biased towards Tennant.
On DV, I am a lifelong fan of Wüthering Heights and think that, well, this kind of unhealthy/abusive relationship porn has endured for centuries for a reason. It does, I think, work really well as a story, it taps into something very primal and animalistic in human nature, if only that women are physically weaker and must always contend with the male capacity for violence. So in that sense, I rather boringly and predictably disagree. I wish there were more films being made that unabashedly portrayed these types of relationships where women choose not to leave, with no moralising, ‘moral lessons’, ‘empowerment’ and so forth. In terms of what appeals to me, on a narrative level, that would be a ‘mass market movie’, if you will, that’s about something else entirely but happens to feature an abusive relationship and doesn’t ‘interrogate’ that in the slightest. The Conformist is so much better for just showing what it chooses to show, including what one might call, I guess, that sort of violence, while not dwelling or moralising.
Anyway, I doubt I’ll like this very much, but there’s nothing really showing now that I’m interested in, so this’ll have to do. On Sunday I plan to watch Sing Sing which I’m even less enthused by.
On DV, I am a lifelong fan of Wüthering Heights and think that, well, this kind of unhealthy/abusive relationship porn has endured for centuries for a reason. It does, I think, work really well as a story, it taps into something very primal and animalistic in human nature, if only that women are physically weaker and must always contend with the male capacity for violence. So in that sense, I rather boringly and predictably disagree. I wish there were more films being made that unabashedly portrayed these types of relationships where women choose not to leave, with no moralising, ‘moral lessons’, ‘empowerment’ and so forth. In terms of what appeals to me, on a narrative level, that would be a ‘mass market movie’, if you will, that’s about something else entirely but happens to feature an abusive relationship and doesn’t ‘interrogate’ that in the slightest. The Conformist is so much better for just showing what it chooses to show, including what one might call, I guess, that sort of violence, while not dwelling or moralising.
Anyway, I doubt I’ll like this very much, but there’s nothing really showing now that I’m interested in, so this’ll have to do. On Sunday I plan to watch Sing Sing which I’m even less enthused by.
And Tatum is absolutely PERFECT in the role.
Blink Twice > Sing Sing > It Ends With Us.
And Tatum is absolutely PERFECT in the role.
And Tatum is absolutely PERFECT in the role.
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Needed something Nordic.
Really enjoyed this.
Really enjoyed this.
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Crank up the volume, please:
That's just 12 minutes of Lone Wolf and Cub 1 and most of 2. Check out those two instead.
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