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Foe (2023)
"Not looking up, but looking down"
This movie holds better upon re-watch, but it still may not be enough for some to compensate.
With a screenplay based on a book written decades ago, it lingers with the details of movies from that time; short dialogues, long pauses, and big silences. It hopes the audience understands without major directions, like french movies, and yet ultimately it gives up on that vision and serves meaning on a silver plate.
That may be the problem with it, a fountain of contradiction.
-Written like an old movie, filmed like a new movie.
-Aura of a noir european film, essence of an american one.
-Too long and too short; a first hour that is meant to show how this couple rekindles their love ends up feeling stretched even with passion scenes it seems lacking, by contrast after "a year later" the second hour happens in a blink.
It drowns in it's own conceptually beautiful ideas.
Her (2013)
"Simulations of human relationships without the complication of human relationships"
"It was exciting to see her grow, and both of us grow and change together. But, you know that's also the hard part, growing without growing apart or changing without it scaring the other person"
At the begging it seems like this movie won't make you think deeply about its hidden meaning, it presents you with the premise and the dilemma right away; forming a relationship with an OS is easy because it is designed to your need, it won't contradict you or control you, won't fight with you, as Amy Adams character said about his human husband: "He is trying to control the way that I'm trying". It feels safe for someone with a broken heart to remove all the possibilities of pain in a relationship and just keep the fun parts but that is not possible with humans.
-"I feel like you've always wanted me to be this happy, bouncy "Everything is fine" wife"
- "That's not what I wanted"...(by the way I'm seeing someone who is an operating system and she is happy, bouncy, and "everything is fine", except she is not; she has the ability to make me really uncomfortable, fight me and the more she learns about human behavior, the more complicated it gets)
And when you think it doesn't matter if it gets complicated because OS will always be there, just like it learned from humans, it can go too.
And that presents another premise to it, how healthy is our dependency on technology, to seek it affectionally when we don't understand it completely, this is not a "technology is bad film" either because is ultimately through his good and bad interactions with Samantha that Theodore is able to understand himself and his pain a little bit better and move forward.
Adding to the ethical dilemma about AI, makes this film an almost perfect piece on human nature.
This movie when to all the opposite places I thought it would and I'm fascinated by it.
The Batman (2022)
"LA RATA ALADA"
Everything good about The Batman, is already been said (cinematography, action, world-building) it's more a hit than a miss from my perspective, as a not knowledgeable person in batman topic.
What no one told me was how unexpectedly fun this movie is, yes it's quite dark but it found ways to crack a laugh here and there, as when Bruce spent 40 minutes of the movie trying to figure out who was the "rata alada", Come On!
I wished the mystery part would have been more of a challenge to the audience, instead of just Bruce figuring it out, but maybe it was never meant to be that way (or maybe I don't know enough of The Batman) The most interesting part? The Waynes
The score's fine, a nirvana song and star wars inspired theme.
My major issue with the movie was not length, it was the pace and edition of certain specific scenes.
Overall, I really enjoyed it.
The Girl on the Train (2016)
Really good but something went wrong
Well tought story and brilliant performances (Emily Blunt is an Oscar worthy actress), but it doesn't leave the taste that the movie ambition itself. Maybe because when I finally understand the characters I have already spend too much time critizing them. As advice, better to watch it without reference when you think to much about the "what ifs" you lose what the movie is trying to give you.
La belle personne (2008)
Everyone is running away from something.
She runs away from abandonment, he runs away from his misery, other runs away from disappointment, from fear. No need to be told in words. Sometimes it could reach the cruelty and frivolity, but that might be the charm of the movie too.
If you get lost in translation, while watching this movie, it's because you didn't learn to the meaning of the words first. Not the kind of movie to start a journey with french cinema, but definitely a good one if you have already dived in the genre.
Bird Box (2018)
It could have done more with 133 minutes.
It's not a bad movie and it had an interesting concept, and the acting it's good (the little girl did a terrific job) but I feel like the narrative get lost in telling us details that are not important for the story, it tells too much of things that are not necesary and too little of interesting things. The romance almost right from the start seems off, without reason, at the berge of how bad the things were in the beginning it's crazy to believe they survive 6 years without bigger complications and the movie cut off all that, it was not one year, 6 years, that's a life time.
La cara oculta (2011)
A GOOD ONE
THE ENDING HIT MY SOUL. It make me think about so many things.