tururru Reviews

Ripley (2024)

The visual execution is beautiful, but the image of Tom Ripley is very controversial...

[8/10 · 7 April 2024]

The biggest negative for me is that young Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith's book - a hero dramatic and naive, charming and destructive, very, very versatile in the virtuoso performance of Matt Damon - turned into just an old and angry loser. Andrew Scott is a talented actor, but where is the charm of youth and passion for life? Here Mr. Ripley is just a nasty petty thief - would you let someone like that into your home? And Dickie Greenleaf sees and understands people (like his father), why then did he trust this man, from whom immediately wanted to stay away?

The main thing is that, as a big fan of the text, it seems to me that the image of Ripley in the book is deeper than what is embodied here. He is not just a sociopathic maniac - this is too simple a reading - Tom wants to be loved, wants to escape from the bottom of life (but at what cost...) But I want to watch the series to the end because of the passion of the director and cameraman for this story. And also because of the masterful work of other actors - especially the cruel-eyed Dakota Fanning and the charismatic and, at the same time, annoying Eliot Sumner (although after the incredible performance of Seymour Hoffman, I could not imagine another; but Eliot's Freddy - is super!) The black and white solution is intriguing - I was wondering when color would appear? (and, I admit, I didn't guess right).

If we abstract from the book, from the films of Minghella, Wenders, Clement, then the series is a masterpiece - but my experience says that it is the book and the 1999 film that are real masterpieces. But this wonderful series, no, did not reach the level of a masterpiece. While there is a lot of fun to be had in watching it, it is a masterful work.

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

The banality of evil

[8/10 · 4 January 2024]

A stunning exploration of the banality of evil centers on Ernest Burkhart, played brilliantly and powerfully by DiCaprio. Sometimes I blinked and saw not an actor, but a real criminal from black and white photographs of the century before last - limited, evil, greedy, with the face of degradation. And most importantly, he is a master at lying to himself.

This is amazing - how can you feel good while killing your wife's relatives, the mother of your children? How can you believe that you are a loving husband (he believes, that's what's amazing!) when you inject your wife with a drug that clearly makes her worse. I had a strange association that Ernest, as if under a magnifying glass, showed the same effect of a split psyche as the population of totalitarian aggressor countries, whose population also convinced and continues to convince themselves of their innocence. That evil manifested with their consent is the will of God (or the leader, or the will of the uncle) - and I am actually not a monster (approving genocide, committing bloodshed), not a murderer, I am good. I take care of my wife. I injected her with poison and then carefully combed her hair... DiCaprio and Scorsese brilliantly embodied this character. It's a banality of evil that's impossible to believe and that sucks Molly in like sticky swamp mud.

But I admit, I couldn't watch the movie without interruption. I needed a drink, a snack and just to get up. Although the direction and cinematography are beautiful and I didn't get bored, it was physically difficult for me to spend so much time sitting in front of the screen. As a book publishing editor, I know that authors are against abbreviations - they worked a lot on the text. But often the book (film) only benefits from this.

Wilson (I) (2017)

Ridiculous child lost in this life

[10/10 · 30 September 2023]

A heartbreaking tale of human loneliness and the eternal search for warmth. In Woody Harrelson's performance, the loser and grouch Wilson seems charming and evokes sympathy. He is like a large and ridiculous child lost in this life. The stacks of books in the apartment (gosh, I have a lot of vintage paper books, too)) - is a colorful touch to the image of the loser. I never understood what he does for a living (the screenwriter's blunder) He seeks love and attention from random travelers, from his ex-wife, from his biological daughter - he begs for love like a child, naively and directly. He is strange but beautiful (Woody's acting!) And the boundless desperation lost life in the performance is Laura Dern very authentic, applause!

Limbo (II) (2023)

Through pain to hope

[8/10 · 4 August 2023]

Very atmospheric strong drama with charismatic Simon Baker subtly reminiscent of Walter White: calm masculinity and brokenness.

Filmed beautifully. Black and white film convincingly and vividly conveys heat, heat and hopelessness.

It's true. The acting is excellent. I believe in this story. It will probably be difficult for those who have not lived in small dying towns, who have not experienced the melancholy of impoverished provincial life, to appreciate this film. But this is what happens in life - unfair and cruel. And in order to survive, and not go crazy, you need to find the strength to let go of the situation and move on.

Drive My Car (2021)

He gives hope

[9/10 · 4 April 2022]

A beautiful, sophisticated film about how we live our losses and come to terms (or not cope) with them. The narrative is unhurried, unfolding very slowly, as if you are watching an online performance - for example, "Uncle Vanya" - is a brilliant play by Chekhov, the staging of which runs through the entire film. The remarks of the heroes of Anton Pavlovich sound from the stage, from the film, from the lips of the actors rehearsing the performance ... The fact that the my Russian nation, in its best representatives, is capable of creating such masterpieces of literature - and not only to send to soldiers to a terrible, fratricidal war, or to support a totalitarian leader, or and believe the lies TV propagandists - gives me a faint hope.

And this film also gives hope that it is possible to cope with misfortune and not lose yourself, your personality, under the unbearable pressure of shame, repentance and grief.

House of Gucci (2021)

The real story of Cinderella

[8/10 · 20 February 2022]

In life, as in a fairy tale, even a good ending is not always happy. Did you marry a prince? And if, let's say, his name is Bluebeard?.. Or, for example, he will reproach you with the fact that you once peeled peas and raked out the ashes? Or, in a couple of years, the prince will find himself another real princess? What to do with a simple, grip likes pit bull, but a rude, not sophisticated girl?.. The director was able to get the most out of Lady Gaga, her acting is great! Like the always brilliant Al Pacino.

Great story about how greed destroys empires.

The Tender Bar (2021)

Don't make up your father.

[9/10 · 12 January 2022]

The film is very gentle, but honestly says that if your father is garbage, then you should not deceive yourself. It is better to open your heart to the one who is your father in spirit. "Father" can be a friend, mother, grandfather - those who believe in you and take care of you. This simple truth is sometimes very difficult to accept. Ben Affleck is irresistible! Maturity honed his charisma and talent.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

God loves us))

[8/10 · 20 November 2021]

God, thank you for this wonderful director, whom you opened to me, for a wonderful story, for playing great actors! See at night, in Russia, forget worries, cry at the end ... God loves us))

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

Hollywood dream

[10/10 · 19 January 2020]

To truly enjoy Tarantino's films, you need a certain cultural background: a love of Polanski's films and Sergio Leone's westerns; love of Mamas and Papas music and all the films with DiCaprio, starting with the movie "What Gilbert Grape Eats"? And the story of Manson should also be in your background - to get real, real, real pleasure from the final scenes! Thank you Tarantino! Ten minutes of happiness when you believe that everything can be so and not otherwise. And Brad Pitt is just incredible here! I will cross my fingers so that Oscar goes to him!))

Mindhunter (2017–2019)

Monsters

[9/10 · 17 October 2017]

Adult, uneasy, fascinating story. Fincher took revenge for the film "Zodiac": he returned to the topic, but on a qualitatively new level. The cosmic level. It's like Dostoevsky in the cinema: the out-of-the- way depths of the human psyche are being investigated. Particularly impressive is the character played by Cameron Britton (maniac Edmund Kemper). I never saw such a terrible, really terrible character in the cinema. Maybe only Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight", when he licked his lips. Only Kemper is scarier. But it seems to me that the explanation of the appearance of such monsters only by an innate character and traumatic childhood is somehow too rational. David Lynch in "Twin Peaks" has another third part - dark forces, - no matter how mythological it did not seem. If Fincher looked at the characters from the other side ... No obsession with demons, but these monsters are next to such an abyss. Rather, the second season!

Boy Meets Girl (1984)

Unbearable fragility and beauty of being

[10/10 · 15 April 2017]

The first film by Leos Carax - piercing, sincere. Carax is only 23 years old - a young genius - a genius in depicting the nuances of youthful depression and the loneliness of human existence. The heroine is like a touching Pierrot. Like a fragile crystal flower. And the general impression is the unbearable fragility and beauty of being.

Split (IX) (2016)

James McAvoy and his 24 face

[7/10 · 15 April 2017]

This thriller - as a spectacular solo of one brilliant actor. Absolutely fantastic actor's work McAvoy. I could not even recognize the actor in the first two characters that appeared on the screen. His facial expressions change supernaturally quickly. It's impossible to tear your eyes from the screen. The film keeps you tense from beginning to end. Shyamalan again made a good movie, worthy of such his works as "Sixth Sense" and "Signs."