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The Whale (2022)
The best film running for the Oscars 2023
The whale is a immersive, conceptual piece of cinema that slings you back into the chair, and lets you observe the dragging and tirering emotional journey of a obese man, continuesly recieting a critical essay on Moby dick as a metaphor for his own state.
But don't be fooled. This films does not just contain the mentioned above. This is the best currated and constructed film, running for the Oscars i've seen. I must admit i felt the urge to stand alongside Charlie in the last scene and shout out into the empty cinema hall at 23.30 that this film deserves an oscar!
I've always loved a well framed story, and this is to evey extend one. The essay about moby dick isn't just mentioned in the beginning and the end, but the whole film is bathed in references and inhabits the whole essence of not only the essay but the book as well. Also who dosen't like a critical religious defiance shown in a young christian missionary and his realtionship to Charlie. Not to mention the way this film is filmed. I love the claustrohophic contruction of the scenes and the steadyness that underlines the imobility that Charlie feels. The delicate and fragile enconter with his ex-wife, his friends and nurse, and the ambeguise realtionship to his estranged daughter. I will say this tho. I got a bit too much off the angry daughter character, and i think she lacked both depth and maybe 20 minutes less screen time.
But like Dan (the pizza delivery guy) that reapears time and agin outside Charlies front door out of curiosity, I am both curious, asstound and in the end reminded of the narcisssistic and ruthless nature of society and the people navigating it.
Tian yu (1998)
An aesthetic pleasure and heart-wrenching story
I have now been intensely crying for an hour...
Besides that... this film got me, like no other film has. It eased it's way in to my little aesthetic heart, with beautiful and experimental shots, a storyteller voice and a interesting soundtrack not to mention plot and concept, only to rip it out and shoot it two times in the back.
This film has truly left me speechless and I'll now have to watch three episodes of Gilmore girls or sex and the city before I ever think of sleeping again...
It is a unexpected honest masterpiece!
Regarding the plot:
I've now read a few reviews of this film in here...
And i feel like I've read the film completely differently, and I think it playes a big role in the genius of this film.. I see a lot of discussions about the relationship between Lao Jin and Xiu Xiu, and I'll have to agree that I don't see the relationship between them either sexual or familial, however I think it is note worthy that Lao Jin is from Tibet and Xiu Xiu a young girl, who in a sense looses her childhood. I think the key to this film lies in the symbolism of the two characters and their position in the time during and after the cultural revolution...
Mothering Sunday (2021)
The bareness of a great metaphor
Mothering Sunday is a fine and sensitive movie, that moves on the fine lines between deep, transcendent and boring.
A lot of opposing opinions has been aired about this film, and I believe it all comes down to once own ability to relate to the topics: artistic birth, loss, war and neglected youth which are all topics in this movie.
I personally found the strong symbolism and delicate details fantastic and original. My favourite part is when Jane walks naked through Paul's house, and studies his home as one of 2000's most descriptive metaphor for the vulnerability in loving someone, and letting someone love you.
I can see how the film at times bends towards the more drawn out, and "quiet without purpose" feel, however it is a film with substance when payed attention to, and it holds a originality and a new-thinking in terms of time and structure(done well) in film. It is at times given even more life by Olivia Coleman and Colin firths fantastic performances(which has not been mentioned enough).
Overall a brilliant film, for those for whom it may concern 🍁
Delicatessen (1991)
A filmic rhythm
Delicatessen is one of those rare movies that manages to completely draw you in to its universe, and at the tipping point of where you would expect your imagination to terminate, it let's you fall freely into originally constructed worlds, aesthetics and concepts.
The film itself is written and constructed with such detail and precession that the structure itself plays the leading role. It is ever present in the characters and shows it's face from time to time throughout the story. More so it sets the stage for a world of free imagination.
It's a bit like a really good jazz number. It's well structured in its fundament, but allows all the players to voice their instruments in its unique way to construct a collective sound and rhythm. Not often said about films, this is a film with strong rhythm.