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Movies
Welcome
In spite of the explosiveness of the issue you can eat popcorn (even if it’s salty and not sweet) to it as over the distance ‘Welcome’ loses its snail dramatically fast to eventually drown in its touching melodramatic resignation.
Lebanon
On the first day of the Lebanon campaign in 1982, a freshwater israeli tank crew breaks behind enemy lines. Lebanon might be the most powerful yet most nightmarish, claustrophobic and quite possibly the most hard to take anti war film ever.
Samaritan Girl
Ki-duk Kim’s Samaritan Girl is only one pick of the uprising korean drama cinema. With the consistent use of the iconography of the new testament, Samaritan Girl has an explicit glance at guilt and atonement of victims and victimizers in a society aroused by its children. Kudos.
This is England
A very british coming-of-age drama succeeding in an authentic take on the Thatcher-era and Falkland conflict-aggrieved cockney rejects and the nuanced portrait of stranded 80’s working class lads forcing the split of the former late 60’s ska and reggae influenced skin scene and the emerging screwdriver right wing oi.
Heart of Jenin
By watching this documentary it’d be so tempting to damn jews once again as reckless fascist fucktards who first mistakenly shoot a victimized Palestinian kid, then “take” his organs and act rude towards his family. What remains is an unsatisfying feeling…
She, a Chinese
She, a Chinese is a coming of age drama about a random girl, emotionally detached and psychologically isolated from her surroundings, who merely depicts a vessel gently flowing through beautiful imageries of richly absurd scenarios.
The Road
Under its unpolished, crushing, leadlike, deserted landscape and more introverted take on existentialism, ‘The Road’ is not much more emphatic, yet just as implausibly overdrawn and puritan as any other serious postapocalyptic drama scenario to date.
New York, I love you
New York, I love you is both a multifaceted love declaration to a pulsating city and a panoply of eleven charming and loosely interconnected short film features, all enjoyable to the highest extends and due to the illustrious cast and selected direction well worth watching.
A Serious Man
When I hear about Schrodinger’s cat, I reach for my gun. I see the self-proclaimed cineasts jerk off on how intelligent, witty and allusive everything is. For me, as a cineast… not, I neither care for a milquetoast jewish physics teacher nor if the cat is dead or not. Meow and farkakt.
Surrogates
When the cute blonde vision mixer intern in the post production studio gets pounded across the saturation filters, something horribly looking like this happens. If they just had relocated the sex into the movie… that’d be a straight line for a bad porn movie.
Gamer
An evil Steve Jobs’ nanotechnolgy enables a Battle Royalesque computer game in which delinquents’ heads explode and limbs are chopped in a never even fashionable or stylish manner, the movie itself is commercialized violence. In a very bad way.
(500) Days of Summer
(500) Days of Summer is an indie attempt with no real tragic in the bite-lagging love story, as it’s just too one-sided on the beau’s needs and desire towards the cute girl who wouldn’t make any sense as a stand alone character.
Where the wild things are
Where the wild things are is a bold genre exercise. Indispensable as a humble and deeply resonating tale for adults and a brilliantly crafted and casted endearing and uplifting take on the fear of losing it all. A motif everyone knows all the best.
New Moon
New Moon bores itself through 2 hours of cheesy lines featuring topless teenagers, gay vampires, nice wolf CGI and an androgynous and bloodless Kristen Stewart with aeon long languishing and lingering glances, constant lip-chewing and dizzy-sighs.
Paranormal Activity
It’s frightening only in the same context that dark hallways and randomly slamming doors are frightening. You spend most of the time watching (pretty much) nothing happening… Not scary. At all.
Antichrist
The bad thing now is that it’s not clever, not self-aware. It’s just preposterous razzmatazz. However I liked the Axe deodorant commercial in teh epiloguez. LOLZ.
Thirst
Park Chan-wook’s vaguely Emile Zola (“Therese Raquin.”) based vampire horror sex drama however succeeds in showing a vampire’s inner moral and ethical struggle instead of again featuring an apathetic and ischemiatic tough creature craving for 0+ cocktails.
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
‘The boy in the striped pyjamas’ presents a very delicate view on the holocaust by featuring a family drama around a nazi family and the Judenfrage seen through the eyes of an 8-year old. Unfortunately the flick just doesn’t work out as I could be as it is as distant.
District 9
This out of the blue project just nonchalantly throws away too many opportunities and unfortunately fails and fizzles on its own ambition as its thought-provoking rascist conflict with alien crustacea refugees rather opens out into mere actionist bespoken razzmatazz than in a clever social criticism.
Coraline
If fricking Caroline were’nt such a prepubescent bitch and her miserable parents were just a tiny bit more affectionate towards their eccentric drama-queening daughter I may have like it more besides the fact that it is insanely well crafted.
Tropa de Elite
Yeah. it is poorly structured, and yes, it is overly brutal, scornful and pervy. But no, it’s definetly not a bad movie. Like its brother in arms ‘City of God’, ‘Tropa de Elite’ features the desperate and fatalistic ‘civil war’ in the favelas of Rio and succeeds in NOT swinging the moral hammer. It’d be so easy to judge…
Crips and Bloods
Stacy Peralta’s so-so finger-wagging background study documentation about feuding american gangs Crips & Bloods in South Central L.A. features mainly british bands (Amon Tobin, Portishead, Massive Attack, The Cinematic Orchestra, aso.) in its soundtrack? I like, but it kills the vibe.
The Tracey Fragments
Gimmicky extraneous images in first 4, then 20 and eventually up to a quadrillion split-screens.
Home
The off the mark words, overly concerned voice dubbing and like totally embarrassing soundtrack are beyond good and evil and turn the movie into a laughing matter. But due to its breathtaking drop-dead gorgeous imagery, it’s actually pretty great if you turn off the sound though.
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