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Closer (2004)
It aged like milk
I've recently rewatched "Closer" - I remembered it as an artsy painful portrait of a love triangle, bit pretentious at times, but overall very enjoyable and insightful. But in 2023 this movie has aged very poorly - it's too self-involved, the pretentiousness of the dialogue is overpowering and, even though it is still insightful, it is only so when watched from the male perspective, which is the only one shown during the movie - female characters are only there as objects of interest/sources of pain, very unidimensional. Furthermore, it is full of whiny early 2000s clichés - having recently seen the work of Ragnar Kjartansson in the Louisiana Museum, I feel this movie encapsulates the very stereotypical fragile masculinity that Kjartansson highlights in his exhibition (a must see if you're in Copenhagen).
However, the overall premise is still very interesting and I wish it would be remade into an updated version that featured fully developed female characters and their perspectives.
Dietland (2018)
Unfair
Although Dietland does a brilliant job exploring the psychological hardships of being overweight it makes it almost seem bad for obese people to actually want to lose weight. Its portrayal of both bariatric surgery and antidepressant medication is highly unfair and straight up wrong, creating stigma in help-seeking behavior and portraying Obesity's medical treatment as a part of the problem when most of the times treatment is what helps people find the solution. Utter crap.