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Dune (2021)
My score would probably be higher if I'd watch the sequel.
I think the most objective comment would be that first of all, you gotta expect there to be sequels and that then you come back to review this Part I again after you watch the sequels and regard them as an entirety. Honestly speaking this piece is by and large embodied by jaw-dropping CGIs and ethereal soundtrack by Hans Zimmer. The plain storytelling makes me feel that the scenario is either culminating all the time or instead, paving the way for the stories afterwards all the time. (Alright, I'm gonna binge on the original work😂) All in all the night in the cinema before the IMAX screen was just incomparable and I bet it'd be the movie of the year.
Soul (2020)
You gotta have a goal, but you also gotta cherish yourself here and now.
Just lighted up the first day of 2021 with this fantastic and touching animation! It's not something for just kids but something for us all. This animation never speaks against having a clear goal in our lives and striving for it but at the meantime tells us that going way too far like driving ourselves crazy also plays a negative role. Some just turned self-blinded somehow thus losing where they're.
To be objective there's still a narrow distance way behind the Coco in 2017, which I must say is in my heart peerless as yet. But it still combines the multiple elements and projects them so vividly and marvelously within somewhere near 90 minutes. Brilliant making and production, attractive scenarios, insightful connotation, and above all, enchanting scores touching the heartstrings, as you feel it exactly. You bet this piece could book for itself a place for the nominees, or if anything, the winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature this year or the Best Original Score.
Tenet (2020)
Still Stunning
Fully immersed in it in the collision and interweaving of the forward and reverse time trajectories. Christopher is undoubtedly a maverick who insisted on telling stories and conquering the audience in his own way. The scenario is brainy and thrilling, so goes the soundtrack- but a little bit monotonous. Obviously You can see something inherited from Christopher's former works such as Memento and Interstellar.
It's truly a tough work for Chris and his team to conceive such a complicated concept and present it onscreen. What they did is far beyond just finishing it, and to some extent, bringing it to a marvelous standard.
But it's a petty that some of the concepts are actually paradoxes. As for the pacing, it's a little bit too quick and tensive, even relative to its theme of a spy game. It looks like that Chris has focused a little bit too much on the complexity and fitness to cinemas, and, as a result, lose something of his own. Given those above Tenet is actually secondary to Inception and Interstellar, where he made truly successful balance between Nolan films and traditional Hollywood films.
This may not be the best movie of Chris, but still a remarkable blockbuster. Just as the protagonist has it, don't trynna understand it, just get yourself absorbed in the thrilling time trajectories. You will definitely find it worthwhile.
Tenki no ko (2019)
Just the depth of the storytelling doesn't match the vivid pictures very well
Every time I watch the anime of Makoto Shinkai, I lost myself in the cozy atmosphere built by colorful and vivid pictures. But this time the scenarios is a little bit superficial and the ending is obviously abrupt. In this regard I think Weathering with you doesn't reach the level of Your Name in 2016, which combines pictures, soundtracks and, last but not least, connotations, much better. The difference just shows us how important a good script is for an excellent animation. So is this a good anime worth watching? Certainly yes! Is this perfect? Obviously it could be much better. Looking forward to more beautiful and insightful anime of Mr Shinkai in the years to come!
Mrs. America (2020)
Magnificent
Contradict- and conflict-centered scenarios, complicated and contradictory Mrs. Americans, a snapshot of surging and whirling social context of that age in the US. Just as the caption said, they are not fighting for rights but power. The performances are wonderful, especially that of Cate Blanchett! That's a performance of a master level.
Just from the angle of the series itself, every single Mrs. America are respectful and worth depicting. Undoubtedly among them Phyllis Schlafly stands out. You can define her as an anti-feminist, for how great the lengths she was willing to go to defense the interest of her faction, or, rather, the interest of her own. You can also consider her as "another type of feminist", as one title in the newspaper stated in episode 8, for her extraordinary leadership along with outstanding intelligence, bravery and determination.
In fact, what the series want to convey to us is that after nearly two decades of fighting, none of these Mrs. Americans are real sense of beneficiaries-the feminists' elite group's dissolve has been hardly ever followed by campaigns in such a big scale as that in the 1970s, while some anti-ERAs had to face the facts that they used to consider as smoke bombs of their rivals and fiercely attack-just like one of thousands of monotonous dinners Phyllis had to prepare when she failed to be nominated by President Reagan. And above all, there are still many people in desperate need of equality, who, however, still have difficulty just making their voice heard.
Normal People (2020)
Bless you, normal people with normal lives in normal world.
Far from perfect(here means the two protagonists), but that's something of how actually goes the life.
Undoubtedly the series excels in shaping the two protagonists' characters-most important-the inner worlds. Unlike many others that trynna stress the heroine's or hero's strengths, I think this series features somehow in their weaknesses, which, to some extent, define them as "normal". And that's why I'm into it.
Marianne and Cornell are both clever. They share viewpoints in so many aspects toward the surroundings. They're also sensitive, undemonstrative, and above all, a little bit inferior. They love each other deeply, while something from the surroundings set some obstacles between the two hearts. Such things can be the families, the points from the others, the need of the present lives, and the periods of separation...Amid so many uncertainties, they conceal, bed with somebody else, or withhold their emotions when they met, trynna made others believe they have nothing with each other. However, they're never ever able to relieve. They're far from ideal
That's why the love story, in my view, touches me greatly. Finally they realize, they should actually live for themselves, not for what the others define them or force them into. On the other hand, they also live for each other, but that's based on their independence. I love you, so I wanna be your helper instead of your burden. I'll go, you'll stay, and we'll be OK.
Looking forward to a season II!😊
Defending Jacob (2020)
It seems the story doesn't end yet.
Emm...not bad. The plot is novel, the narrative structure is clear and the performances are well enough. The atmosphere is usually depressed, but it doesn't matter a lot. By and large it deserves such a score.
At first I thought that'll be another decent whodunnit. I prepared myself for what I supposed to see--pursuit of evidence, the stress from the contender(Neal), heated debate on the court, the sudden appearance of the real killer and at last...you know...But with the story going on, I switched my focus on the Family, especially Jacob. What matter, in my view, are more of the unfathomable personality of Jacob and the subtle relationships between the three.
For me what appeals to me at most is the settings of the protagonists. Complexed, paradoxical, all have something to fight for and something to withhold. In addition, constant reversals also added to the complexity of the story, which brings out my desire to binge on it.
However it's a pity that the series ends up like this--so abrupt that I questioned myself: Are you sure it has exactly 8 episodes as you saw in the trailer? It feels like it doesn't tell the whole story. It's said that the series is adapted from a bestseller. So will there be any original sequels? If so, I think I'm gonna binge on it. If not, of course kind of disappointed, but anyway it's still a good choice to kill time during the pandemic.
Chernobyl (2019)
Thought-Provoking
What a thought-provoking miniseries! I think where the hopelessness lies is not that they had no access to the truth, but the fact that for multiple reasons: ideology, reputation...such a majority refused to wake up to it out there. Such a sorrow that the truth-teller ended up suiciding, and so many innocent lives got embroiled in the catastrophe. The lie shouldn't have been debunked in this way!