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Kissable Lips (2022)
very breath taking actor kim ji woong
One star for the handsomeness of kim ji woong. The series just didn't hit inside: bad script, bad acting and it goes...too short, too fast, it lacked emotions.
Morbius (2022)
highly predictable
It was all going well til milo's transformation, from this moment forward... highly predictable. Dr. Morbius couldn't handle what he himself have became, milo became the villain, morbius' lover was killed by milo, a battle for life between the two friends (a moment that resembles the last dracula with luke evans). Through all of this if a moment was good it was martine's resurrection, except from that, it was boring. It would fit better in dc maybe in the same vibe of the batman.
The Batman (2022)
surprising
One opinion about the batman: zöe kravitz.
This is what dc looks like, this is what dcu must be like. A thrilling from beggining to end.
Pattinson, as usual, breath taking. What incredible gaze.
Reflexões de um Liquidificador (2010)
very good
Great acting from Ana Lucia Torre (as usual), very funny and beautiful colors editing.
Shûmatsu no Valkyrie (2021)
bad bad bad
There's only three good things: the PROPOSAL of cultural diversity - even though all deities seem submissive to the greek gods -, the visuals and Brunilda looking like aespa's Karina. The way they chose to portray Aphrodite... gross and disgusting.
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A love letter to old cinema
I can't even articulate the right words that can convey the beauty of this movie. It's a touching experience from start to finish, a love letter to old cinema and the love it arouses in its admirers - or, as Tornatore himself said, an obituary to traditional cinema. It's a tender experience for almost three hours: time, memory, photography, techniques, the arrangement of sets, the soundtrack, love, the pains of the post-war, the innocence of childhood, the turmoil of youth, the nostalgia and melancholy of adult life, comedy, social tension, the cultural phenomenon of cinema as entertainment and passion, the censorship of religion, dreams and difficult and challenging choices, the captivating characters, the moving acting of the actresses and of the actors, and the background that inspires the film. It is truly a masterpiece - one of my favourites.
The Dreamers (2003)
politics, cinema and sex
The scene Isabella has sex with Matthew for the first time is very ????????? Strange and uncomfortable to say the least (what was the reason it was portrayed that way?). And why was she built so that she was so much in Theo's shadow?
The movie is very good, interesting, challenging, a delight to the eyes in terms of scenery's composition, techniques and photography. The performances of Eva Green, Louis Garrel and Michael Pitt are very well executed.
Love (2015)
Youth's emotional ruin
First, it's necessary to keep in mind that the film is (kinda of) inspired by the director himself (Noé) and his circle of friends in the cinematographic environment. The purpose of the film is to portray the troubled love and sexual relationships of millenials - which, at first, it's inferred that it'll be something deep.
However, the film ends up juggling to reach a neither great nor terrible level. The timeline can be confusing, but it's far from being the film's downside, it just adds up to a whole host of problems.
There's A LOT of (explicit) sex, wich in a moderate way would not be a problem, however the scenes are VERY long, around two minutes each (in a two hours long movie). It gets tiring - but the (minimum) ideia of what role sex plays in this generation of young people is there.
The female characters are hypersexualized, occupying a prominent position in the scene. Men in the background. The problem is not the prominence itself, but the way it is meant to be perceived. However, I expected this when I read a statement by Noé in which he said "with a short (film) you are allowed to do whatever you want. It's like if you have a girlfriend and she tells you that you can do whatever you want. That's very exciting."
The film makes positive points by portraying heterosexual relationships in a generation considered "cool" and "advanced" in social terms, showing how it's done, the sequence and escalation of emotional and psychological abuse. How the "nice" guy is actually a big idiot.
The film certainly lacked depth, several insinuations were made, but they remained to be developed. One of the insinuations, which would certainly mark positively allied to the love narrative of this youth, is about the internal battles of each one. The film introduces a little bit about the problems that both Murphy and Electra face within themselves, but it doesn't develop. Personally, I think it would have been extremely interesting and fruitful to develop Electra's innermost pains - when she says she's not proud of all her past... that hits different.
Much is complained about the performance of Muyock and Glusman - pertinent. It's not the usual dramatic acting, it's like we're having privileged access to a troubled relationship - it's kind of a "natural" acting (?). However, this "dry" acting seems to have been the director's intention - and I also wonder about the limits placed by the script. However, personally, the acting didn't even arouse negative feelings in me, the tense moments I think are well done. Something about Aomi Muyock's acting is captivating - what makes her character, Electra, captivating. There are times when something about her hits us, such as her facial expressions, her small smile, the look, the way she speaks, even when she's silent - considering the internal battle she seems to be fighting.
A good movie with good intentions that fails to carry them out becoming tiring - also lighting, photography, techniques and camera work are good.
Mulan (2020)
God... what was that?
Seems like Disney is sharing the same feelings with Netflix about CGI... anyways, is it a thing now Disney turning the animations' fun into dark live-actions? Seems like this Mulan came out directly from DOA. Everything was SO bad and forced... 2 stars: one for the effort in the making of the movie, another one for TRYING to dialogue with contemporary demands.
Violet Evergarden (2018)
I haven't read the novel, so...
It's a painful, touching, always melancholy story, but even so it's still beautiful.
There are the horrors of war, broken family and affective ties, the "one day" taken from the young men who attend the war, open social wounds, tensions and unpredictability of politics that don't seem to be resolved, ordinary people in their personal dramas trying to recover from the war.
On the main stage there's Violet carrying the consequences of the war in her "burning" body trying to recover. First objectified, seen as a tool of war, by losing her reason of existence, she painfully and frustratingly tries to build agency over herself.
Before, Violet was unfamiliar with what humanizes us: emotions. Violet starts from this by becoming an Automemory Automaton, through writing letters she becomes familiar with people's stories and feelings - love, joy, sadness, losses...
This is the tone of the story: the loss, the overcoming process and the turning of the page. Violet will test herself to know and recognize emotions, feelings, to internalize them, to know what she's feeling. She builds herself human with other people.
I'm minimally familiar with the discrepancies between the light novel and the adaptation - pertinent and interesting. And I start from them to point out the flaws. Just by watching the anime we're not informed of Violet's origins, the reason for the bond that binds her to the Bougainvillea brothers in such a submissive and obsessive way, and why she killed Dietfried's companions. If I understood correctly, there is a romanticization of the relationship between older men, in their 20s, and girls while still children.
It is, in fact, a sensitive story - even if a little bit tiring -, which perhaps could have been played out better if it had more space. However, the adaptation is positive in allowing us to share Violet's many feelings, moving us to see her evolve - always rooting for her and also constituting ourselves with her.
Divino Amor (2019)
An interesting way to portray dystopia
The director Mascaro chose a very interesting way to portray this dystopia, it diverges from the current way of portraying this genre - pompous productions -, making it more real, more palpable, closer - the brazilian brand of making art is visible.
The cast's acting is good, Dira Paes delivers a performance in which we can feel her emotions - as expected. The crisis that inhabits her marriage, the distance between them two, the dry relationship without affection, focused only on the attempt and expectation of a child, can also be felt.
The photography, the lighting, the camera angles, the indoor and outdoor environments are very well done, very well chosen - we can feel a connection with what's being portrayed, it doesn't seem far away, a completely different reality in the future.
The film misses the turn - the miracle - by leaving the meaning of it too dubious - society is still not ready for the Second Coming and still doesn't believe what a woman says? The movie also fails by not showing the outside world, focusing too much on the protagonist's personal drama, not being able to show the reality of everyday life that people must deal with - but I wonder if this was a director's choice or if it was a budget imperative. It wasn't clear why the "couple of godfathers" and their "couple of godchildren" of the Divino Amor group had to have sex. Also there was a lack of portraying how the male-female relationship is in this society even more dominated by neo-Pentecostalism.
Cruella (2021)
Well... I saw that coming
There's three good things about this movie: the costume design, the soundtrack and Emma Thompson's acting. The CGI, God, it is so gross! The two plot twists... so bad and so forced.
Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
an average suspense
Well... I think the script's a little bit messed up, the CGI is questionable, some things are predictable, others doens't make sense... but the cast did really good given what they could do, especially Angie, Finn Little and Medina Senghore.
Far from Heaven (2002)
it's like a complex painting art
Beautiful photograph and costumes, also interesting techniques used for the making of the movie - such as editing, lightning, dialogues and camera angles. A portrayal of the reality in a very artistic way. Julianne Moore, as always, very captivating.
Monster (2003)
a raw portrayal of reality
There's a reason why Charlize Theron won the Oscars for best actress with this movie... Very well done, very well performed. It's a movie that makes us feel uncomfortable - as it should -, it's heavy and very touching - like a punch in the stomach.
The Hours (2002)
a perfect portrayal of the burden of life itself
This movie spoke to me in a level that I can't even explain... So well done, so well tied when it comes about the script. The raw on point acting. More than feel for them, I felt in them. When I first started watching, I was a little bit afraid about the changes of scenarios and time that could possibily be a mess, but it wasn't, it was perfect. The way that the burden of life and mental issues was portrayed, especially the way that Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Ed Harris performed in those roles... I'm just speechless. My favourite scene is the one where Virginia and her husband are in the train station... just so deep, sincere and emotional.