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Nobody (2021)
Accelerating as it should be
This movie is constantly on a trend of becoming better and better with every minute having watched it. Very realistic action scenes as well. Surprisingly good! Looking forward for the follow-up movie.
Se7en (1995)
"A genius thriller that reflects the corrupt morality of society perfectly." - My interpretation of the movie:
If you are looking for a story-based movie, this will not be for you. If you are looking for something with a deeper message and lots of metaphors and reflections of wrong judgement, you will fall in love with this masterpiece. Here is my interpretation:
Joe, being drawn as the 'psycho serial killer' initially, is murdering his victims in accordance with the seven deadly sins. After his first 5 crimes in which he 'punishes' the victims, he goes for detective Mills' (Brad Pitt) wife. That is his sixth crime. When Mills finds out about it, he kills Joe in his own violent way (in fact, he shoots a whole magazine of bullets), and Joe's series of crimes complete.
Here, the message is that when someone that is judging others because of their 'crazy, psychopathic behavior', they are underrating or not understanding how 'personal' that person has taken the sins that the victims have committed. If Joe had killed some other random, Mills would have never shot him. He kills him because it is about his wife. However, that is why Joe has been killing in the first place: he takes the sins of all those victims very personal; unlike Mills who is lacking the empathy that Joe has and only decides to kill when the victim is his own wife. Here, Joe proves that Mills is basically no different: he also kills when it comes to a sin that is bothering him so much that he cannot live if he does not do something about it. That is what society is about: we judge people easily on behalf of their acts, but most of the time, we are no different.
Interestingly, Joe's sixth victim, Mills' wife, is also not a pure good person. She was considering having an abortion without telling his husband Mills, who is the father of the baby, anything about it - which is also a sin. You can clearly see the smile on Joe's face when he learns about the fact that Mills did not know about the pregnancy.
I think that Somerset (Morgan Freeman) could be a metaphor to the 'good and right part of Mills'. I think the scene where Somerset sits on Mills' desk is really key to make me think so. Most of the time, Mills wants to ignore that good part inside him, but when Mills' wife calls him, she wants to speak to Somerset (the good side in Mills), invites him to dinner, and Mills' wife opens herself about the pregnancy to again Somerset, the good side in Mills. From time to time, Somerset has tried to convince Mills not to do the wrong thing (first at Joe's apartment he told him not to break the door, and in the end not to kill Joe), but ultimately he failed.
In short, I think this is an absolute masterpiece and I am sure there are still a lot of things that I have not noticed about the movie. The only reason I don't rate it as a 10 is because of the acting that was not the best knowing Freeman and Pitt's potential. Maybe it's because they did not have enough time in their scenes to 'take us in'. Overall, David Fincher is a genius.
El hoyo (2019)
My interpretation of the movie
I think rather than focusing on a plot, the movie depicts different edges and human profiles in life. The platform is our world, and the administration are the governments, and the levels are the social classes that are created. The administration (government) works with care, but due to flaws in the capitalist system, there are people suffering/dying.
The main character Goreng has norms. However, it doesn't take too much until he loses his mind in a corrupt world. He wakes up in the platform with an old man, who is completely aware about the system, and has already completely adapted. When he is up, he eats as much as he can and abuses it. When he's down, he does everything needed to stay alive. The woman that formerly worked for the administration regrets her earlier duties of sending people in to the platform, as she 'didn't know' - depicting similar people that work for governments nowadays. She regrets it, hence sends herself in and tries to change the system by speaking up to the lower level everyday. However, the tone of her message is not enough in the cruel world; Goreng's tone that includes threatening seems to work though.
Goreng tries to change the entire system with Baharat. I think, that ultimately they failed, and that starting from some part of going down (I am not sure from where), Goreng starts to hallucinate. Initially, they are trying to send a message to the administration by sending back untouched clean food - which is normally impossible in their system. They fail in this, but Goreng, imagines a bigger message: in the lower levels, no one is interested in food from the table anyways; they are eating each other. A child that survives the bottom floor would serve as a bigger message, as she is a metaphor to our social norms and ties.
Baharat tried to go up several times, but going up does not have anything to do with willingness. There are always people that are going to stop you. It is a matter of luck, just like in the movie. One day you wake up in a horrific situation, the other day you are happier. When you are happy (or of higher class), you seem to forget about the bad days and lose your emphaty as a human being and exaggerate in every act that you do.
The woman that worked for the administration thought that there were 200 levels. The movie describes that there is always worse and way more people suffering than they seem to observe - so bad that the world and the governments (the woman) do not realize (or tend to ignore) while being part of the system.
Overall, I think it was a great movie. I like open endings so that I can draw one myself.