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Night at the Golden Eagle (2001)
Home to drunks and prostitutes
"Night at the Golden Eagle" is just a few steps away from being a perfect film, we don't get the opportunity to absorb the climax before it ends, so by the time the credits roll it felt incomplete.
The story isn't about resolutions, but instead the opposite, if you ever wondered where the people who don't "make it" go after they've failed, or where society's unwanted leftovers collect, or where those with potential ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of fate's door there are a lot of them out there right now on the streets, and they're getting younger and younger, get your teen to see it they might learn something.
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
Awful in 1975, and is still awful now
Salò is,just as the making of it was, a sad, if spectacular, waste of energy. Notionally a metaphor for Fascism (it is set in Italy in 1944), and specifically about the connection between politics, violence, and sexual excitement, "Salò" has in fact no meaningful link to Fascism whatsoever, but is simply a display of twisted lust, spun by the fantasies of four extreme perverts, not to mention the director himself. Clearly Pasolini (who could either be exceptionally inspired or - as here - absolutely dire) had hit the creative buffers, and so - in his tale of four power-mad, sexually-warped members of the ruling elite - seems to relish serving up endless examples of the most gruesome conduct.
A movie stuffed with brutal demonstrations of power and perversion of every kind but.......got noticed.
Feed (2005)
Underground world of Feeders and Gainers
There is no doubt that obesity is a serious concern and the images in this film of women unable to move from their beds and completely reliant on their 'feeder' are disturbing. But the characters involved are too one dimensional and the explanations for their actions (blaming childhood traumas) are stereotypical and so there is no room for empathy, understanding or even interest in this farcical, mess of a movie.What makes it even harder to watch is the poor editing, and excessive use of music in scenes of suspense, where you feel there is a distinct lack of confidence on the part of the director to just let the scenes speak for themselves.