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Dokument inifrån: Experimenten: Avsnitt 1 - Stjärnkirurgen (2016)
A both serious and exciting documentary film
This is a documentary film that shocked the whole Swedish society upon its release, almost single-handedly. It's not only a documentary, but also a detective film, with a lot of suspense.
From a documentary point of view, the documentary film is very serious. It provides a lot of exclusive materials and evidence, in order to clarify a very complicated matter. Upon its finish, the audiences may find the matter so simple to understand, thanks to the hard work of the documentary team in searching and gathering evidence, and thanks to the excellent story telling skills of the documentary team.
From a detective film point of view, trying to start from a neutral point, the documentary film begins in the air of mystery. As it goes on, the film tries to let the audience reach their conclusions. Although the documentary film does reach its own conclusions, watching it one would feel as if he or she was the detective him- or herself, little by little gathering evidence, clearer and clearer seeing the big picture, and more and more convincingly reaching conclusions. All of these make this documentary film very exciting and entertaining to watch.
This is a documentary film that suits the tastes of both documentary fans and detective film lovers. More importantly, this documentary film had practical social values. As introduced at the beginning, this documentary film shocked the Swedish society. It produced immediate, if not longer term, changes in the Swedish society.
This documentary film should reach more people. It is therefore worthwhile to translate the language and add English subtitles.
Belleville Baby (2013)
Are the Swedish bored and boring?
A beautiful film. Nice to watch on a Friday night. In addition, I wonder, are the Swedish bored and boring? Perhaps this is the question or message the film delivers, besides its beauty, either intentionally or unintentionally?
Going through the film, it seems Mia stills loves Vincent, through her memory, her tone, her caring of and compliance with Vincent and her decision to go to France. She got 2 children in 10 years. But where is her husband? Perhaps divorced? But anyhow, I don't see it at all that Mia loves her children's father.
In Sweden, the most you can meet and have is rules. As long as you obey the rules, you get a job, a standard living and all the social benefits. Almost everyone is the same. People don't dare to break the rules, otherwise everything will suddenly become so expensive. Or perhaps people just don't think any more. When one stops thinking, one stops feeling. When one doesn't feel, one doesn't love. One thus becomes bored and boring. Yes, people don't need to struggle that much to have a standard life. So, people are nice to each other. So, everyone is nice, bored and boring. Couples are nice to each other, able to live together and to have and bring up kids. But there is seldom love with passion, like flame, like the love Mia is having towards Vincent.
Perhaps Sweden needs more Vincent's to end her people's boredom, to remind her people of emotion, passion and love? Of course, such people don't need to be criminals, as long as the society is a bit more tolerant towards creativity.
Are the Swedish bored and boring? Perhaps this is the question or message the film delivers, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
It is just another pretentious, mediocre film
Guardians of the Galaxy is just another mediocre film. Under the pretence of future, it sneaked in embraces of the past. Perhaps it tried to be both, but it was neither a serious film nor a comedy. It failed to trigger any deeper emotion inside me. Its humour was out of context. There were too many characters, most of which were not properly developed. The purposes of existence of those figures were very confusing. I'll comment in detail on the triggering of deeper emotions and the humour in the following 2 paragraphs.
Someone commented that the films like the Dark knights series set a standard that superhero films must be deep and thoughtful. That person further commented that this film, Guardians of the Galaxy challenged this standard. I generally don't like dogmas. But here it's not at all about dogmas. It is just the fact that those "deep" ones could trigger deeper emotions, or provoke thoughts, or inspire the audiences, or help the audiences learn something, or help the audiences learn themselves better. By these, the audiences like, think about, involuntarily recall, remember and give high scores for those "deep" films. Of course different people have different opinions on deepness. So, I don't comment on the deepness of Guardians of the Galaxy. Just commenting on triggering deeper emotions, or provoking thoughts, or inspiring me, or helping me learn something or learn myself better, unfortunately, Guardians of the Galaxy did none of these to me. So, it just didn't make me feel that way, that it was one of those all-time great films.
Someone commented that Guardians of the Galaxy was not a serious film, but rather, it was a great, light-hearted comedy. Even for this, I don't think I could agree. Great humour exists in context. In the right context, something plain could be hilarious. Out of context, brilliant jokes were just nothing. In Guardians of the Galaxy, too much humour ran out of context. For example, the raccoon said later, that he asked for one prisoner's prosthetic leg was just a joke. What did this convey? It was clever to play such heartless jokes on your partners when it was time to be serious? No. How about it tried to portray a figure, the raccoon, who was unfazed in front of great danger? But then you had to make the situation look dangerous. Even in The Wizard of Oz (1939), the scenes felt more creepy than here in the prison. The prison here felt just like a noisy second-hand market. So, I didn't find the joke funny and didn't know why it was in the film otherwise either. There were many such lines. I knew they were intended to be something to make people laugh, but I just didn't feel that entertained at those improper moments.
All in all, Guardians of the Galaxy has no place on the all-time great list. Perhaps it was the last joke it could play, on itself, being put into the Top 250 list. Among those great films, its mediocrity would just manifest itself. Just within the first month of its release, it dropped 20 places on the Top 250 list from the 34th to the 54th. As time goes on, this film will likely drop further when the enthusiasm fades after its initial surge. There are great films, like In the Name of the Father (1993), A Beautiful Mind (2001) etc. They were not on the Top 250 list before, but gradually rose up and emerged into the all-time great list. Just on the contrary, Guardians of the Galaxy will gradually drop out of the Top 250 list.