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The Zone of Interest (2023)
Fantastic Movie That Bored Me
This movie bored me, and that was the point of it, I believe. Well done.
The family of the Nazi who runs Auschwitz lives in a beautiful home right next to the concentration camp. The story is told through scenes of family interactions and conversations, yet there is no real story. It's a snapshot of the lives of some of the most evil people in history, yet you'd never know it if not for the sounds and subtle hints that off-the-charts human suffering is going on next door.
The banality of evil is fully captured here. It reinforces that you can't live your life without examining your choices because an entire society can agree to something monstrous without much thought.
Little Boy Blue (2017)
Borrrring
Yes, it's a true story. A horrific, tragic story. Still, there was no reason to make this drawn out, boring series. It was so slow paced that my husband set it to play at 1.25% speed. It still felt slow. So we had to check to make sure it was still sped up. It was.
As sad as the event was, and as much as this story should be known by all, this wasn't the way to do it. It stole my Saturday night!
The acting was well done. It was factual. If I had to say anything else negative about it, it would be that it stayed kind of surface. The guy wrenching pain was hinted at or briefly shown. They should have gone deeper.
Men (2022)
YES, All Men! *SPOILERS*
It's amazing to me that this movie is so confusing to people. Let me break it down for you.
Her husband threatened to kill himself if she left him. Then he hit her. When she was enraged and refused his apology he actually did kill himself.
Traumatized, she went to an old country estate for rent so she could heal and be alone for awhile. Then she kept encountering men. Each encounter with each man was a hailstorm of micro (and eventually macro) aggressions.
I haven't yet read where anyone has put together the connection between the ancient church, with pagan imagery all through it, and the naked stalker turning himself into The Green Man, a pagan god.
Back to the naked stalker. She tried to go on a nature walk. There was a lovely old tunnel. At first the beauty of it entranced her as she sang notes into it. Then a MAN ruined it. This guy stalked her up the side of the hill and into the village. She made her way through a field of beautiful flowers, but couldn't appreciate it because of this MAN menacing her.
The police are called. They take him in. The police woman says he's probably harmless, echoing so many women who have said the same of so many abusers before their abuse was known. The male cop lets the guy go and then questions Harper's version of the story. Disbelieving her claim that she was being stalked. MEN don't believe women. It's infuriating! Men are always doubting women. They act like everything a woman says should be taken with a grain of salt.
The vicar part was great. Spot on. Religious men tend to see women as temptresses luring men towards sin. They blame women for their own lust. His hand on her knee, then his victim blaming when she opened up to him about her sorrows - classic MEN.
The ending seems to really confuse everyone.
The stalker, now The Green Man, figuratively raped Harper by blowing his seeds towards her. One of them went into her mouth. Another violation.
Why were the MEN birthing each other and passing on the same injuries as they went? Because men create the same emotional injuries in their sons (Just as Geoffrey had said earlier.), and those injuries are the seeds that make them emotionally injure their sons, and so on. They create this toxic masculinity over and over and over. Which is why Harper's dead husband was finally born. And then he sits there and he blames her for his injuries. She asks him what he wants from her and he says "Your love." Oh, my lord! Men and their want of our love as they exhaust us, use us up, blame us, invalidate us, disbelieve us, assault us, and grind us down. Love! That what women are to do many men. Love machines. Sex machines. Food machines. Comfort machines. That's all they want. And you know what? That's ALL they want.
So then Harper's friend arrives and she's pregnant. Will it turn out to be a MAN? And maybe Harper is pregnant as well. Will they be complicit in creating new MEN to terrorize more women?
There was more. It was a rich allegory. I give it a 9. I'd like to give it a 9.5. I'd take half a point away for making it so confusing to those whose eyes are not as open to toxic masculinity as they should be.
Flugt (2021)
I can't believe how boring this is.
(SPOILERS) I read the synopsis, saw the 8 stars, and eagerly watched this movie. I kept waiting for it to get interesting. What was the big reveal? What horrors befell this poor man?! Turns out, not much more than my own horrors. With the exception of the people packed into the boat and treated like their lives didn't matter, I've been through nearly as much. As have some of my friends. Life is hard and people are cruel. Where's the documentary about me? Or about my friend whose parents were abusive, or another friend who was gang raped when she thought she was just going on a date?
The animation was great, but you know, I think animations was used because otherwise it was just a guy speaking slowly and inarticulately about growing up as a refugee.
I rarely leave bad reviews. I don't like doing it. This is one time where I felt really irritable as the credits rolled though.
Annette (2021)
If even I didn't like it...
First of all, let me tell you about myself and how I relate to art: I'm annoyingly deep and tend to love art that makes me cry. I love poetry. I'm easily touched. I like artsy things. I love weirdness. I like Sparks. I don't like musicals. <- that's the one thing that might predict that I wouldn't like this movie. Otherwise, you'd think I would. You certainly wouldn't think I'd loathe it, but I do. I really, really do. In fact, I don't really leave movie reviews, but I just had to because I want to help people save themselves from this movie. The characters are flat. The story is banal. The acting is stagy. The stand-up is NOT funny. They could have at least hired some comedians to make that part believable. Oh, it was painful. And the singing! Adam Driver is not a singer. Not even passable. He shouldn't even sing Happy Birthday to anyone, let alone sing all through an unnecessarily long movie! I can't not recommend this movie enough. It might be the worst movie I've ever seen.