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La migliore offerta (2013)
truth, beauty, and goodness
"The transcendentals are the three properties of being: truth, beauty, and goodness." (Wikipedia) There two things in balance: the beauty that is seen, has courage, and is cheating visibly vs. the beauty that is hidden is afraid, and is cheating in a hidden way. What's left, when you take out beauty, courage in truth, fear in truth? The good, the bad, and the ugly.
The truth is spoken in brutal ways. You get shocked by it, it's highly aggressive. Thus, when the actors say things that appear to be plain, they seem accurate. If you can say the hard things, the soft things now seem believable.
The guy has inner limitations (cheats), the girl has outer limitations (space). When they meet, the guy works on his outer limitations (his work, his possessions), the girl works on her inner limitations (being afraid).
It's a visually stunning movie. Just superb. Everything looks gorgeous.
It's not easy to predict what comes next, but it's not exactly mind blowing.
I highly recommend this movie. 10/10.
Klaus (2019)
A wonderful movie!
It's one of the best movies I've seen. 10/10.
A nice quote: "A true selfless act always sparks another".
Very emotional movie.
Excellent graphics.
Well created atmosphere.
Nice script.
Forrest Gump (1994)
One of the greatest movies, ever!
I've seen the movie a few times. I liked it even before, but now more than ever.
In the movie, it looks like Forrest is a bit stupid. After recently seeing the movie again, I think I was stupid and misjudged the movie.
A lot of stupidity in the movie is Forrest's lack of self-preservation. I won't give examples, but if you think of it, he cares more about others than for himself, and this makes him look stupid.
A lot of times in the movie, Forrest does and says a thing which looks silly, he does something which is, to some degree, stupid. At the very end of the movie, he wants to say something but stops. He learned his lesson, he can stop saying stupid things.
You really enjoy, in the movie, the way in which he gets to win against impossible odds. He starts X, he wins, world champion, never seen before, a huge hit. You're happy for his success.
I think the main idea of the movie is that "Mercy triumphs over judgment." (James 2:13 NIV). I've previously heard Mircea Cartarescu saying that kindness, rather than intelligence, is the best thing some can have in his life. What would happen if you had a lot of mercy, but little judgment? You find out in the movie.
There are some apparent negative roles in the movie. But when you really think about them, the movie gives you some reasons for their behavior. Of course, not for every bad character, but for the most important ones, yes. And some of the bad characters transform in the movie, they become something else.
I like the fact that Forrest goes from A to B rather easily. He has no issue moving on.
It's really nice how he transforms his weaknesses into strength. This happens multiple times in the movie.
Tom Hanks plays great.
10/10, no questions about it.
The Gentlemen (2019)
About "The Gentlemen" (2020)
I just saw "The Gentlemen" (2020).
Some ideas?
- Very good play of actors, graphics, music.
- The suspense was at a high level, kept me on my chair waiting for the next scene.
- A small detail - I liked that in this movie when someone doesn't pay attention 100% something bad happens. If you're not engaged, you pay for this.
- The movie was, to me, not as smart as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998), as it was more complicated and harder to understand. Also, I really liked Brad Pitt in "Snatch" (2000) In here, I wasn't attached to any character.
- The only downside? It was a purely, 100%, totally, and a bit :)) absolutely logical movie. There were emotions in the movie, actors were living and immersing in it, the script and play had suspense, but other than making me laugh one time, I didn't have any other emotion.
- I give the movie a grade of 10, with the disappointment of emotions.
Frozen II (2019)
Almost perfect
Yes, I'm a 38 years old male who watches kids' cartoons. And I really enjoy them, too. I like some cartoons better than "actual" movies.
SPOILERS!
Some things about Frozen II (2019)?
It has a lot of connections to Frozen (2013), even a little too much. Like love & marriage, "you can't have one without the other".
Speaking of marriage, I've read an opinion, that in Frozen (2013) the princess doesn't want to get married. In the 2019 version of the movie, Anna plays a game with dolls getting married, and all Kristoff thinks is marriage. You can't accuse them of not thinking of marriage anymore. "You want marriage? You can have it!"
Things move fast. Very intense, lots of ideas. Bam-bam-bam! Everything is fast.
The songs are nice, but not so much. I liked that there were lots of songs, but they weren't so good quality.
I liked the connections Christmas - Lights - White.
Some lessons for the young viewers of the movie - "Do this, don't do that".
A few things with political correctness, but not over the board.
Superb visuals.
Great quote: "I can't stay mad at you. You're so cute."
I found the script great. Unexpecting things, new solutions, great thoughts.
Immersion & empathy with the characters were great. I felt the cold and the emotions.
Elsa was very elegant & classy. Anna was warmer & friendlier. You have options, there is no perfect princess.
I didn't find it a children's movie.
Also, it was a rather dark movie. Positive conclusions, but dark atmosphere.
The dam had an ecological aspect to it. "Let's save the planet". Not bad, as a lesson, but a bit forced.
After "Life of Pi" (2012), I liked the visuals of this movie the most.
I enjoyed the spectacle of an ice horse running through the snow and water.
Olaf is not at all silly and not intelligent, but rather very surprising. It's the trickster from Carl Jung's philosophy - he says things which provoke you, even if they seem strange and silly at the beginning.
A quote I liked: "My love is not fragile".
One of the lessons of the movie is that insisting, pushing, being optimistic, joining the game brings more results than analyzing. Go where the action is (the main characters), be optimistic and talk a lot (Olaf), you will get some results by doing so.
One major issue: the script, smart, the characters, great play of actors, graphics, great, but there was no main idea. Olaf claims at the end of the movie that they all grew a bit, but I didn't find any reason for growth for most characters. What was ALL the movie about? No single clear idea.
I think I would rate this movie right after "Inside Out" (2015). Not a 10, but surely a well-deserved 9.
Abominable (2019)
Disappointing
What I liked a lot about the movie was the perception of space. It brought me there. The visual aspects of the movie were great. The music was fine, but just fine, nothing very much special.
The movie had a single solution for solving problems - insisting. There's a problem? You persist, and then the problem disappears. No creativity, no ideas, no brain. You just insist. In fights, with other people, with the monkeys - you just need to insist. Are you captured? If you insist, you'll get out. Your father doesn't agree with you? You insist, and he changes his mind.
I like the idea I've read much earlier from Gala Galaction - you need to be strong, without being too powerful, and soft, without being too weak. Nice.
It seems to me a bit illogical at some points - pirates on the Moon (where could they hide?). Not committing for a huge amount of time, and then just doing it at once.
Ad Astra (2019)
Great atmosphere, but that was all.
On the positive part, I connected well with the characters. I enjoyed their emotions. It's just a single positive thing I want to say about the movie - this one -, but it is an important one.
It was just for children, almost nothing for adults. Very simple script, very simple jokes, very simple emotions. A cartoon can be made to also have some things which are more profound/complicated. This was just for kids, in my opinion.
There was almost no background plot - everything was in the first plot. In most movies, a character goes through an obvious quest, while also working on a deeper, more profound, plot. There was a second plot in the movie, but very poorly developed.
Lots of clichés.
I've watched the trailer. It had all the good ingredients - the main quest, good graphics. I saw that the makers of the movie also made "How to train your dragon" series. Good ingredients. The result from these two ingredients was disappointing, though.
At some point in the movie, some obstacles occurred. Generally, I say of a movie that it isn't creative enough, by solving problems merely by insisting, not by creativity and good thinking. In here, it wasn't even insisting. There is a wall in front of you - an obstacle. Suddenly, the obstacle isn't there. I exaggerate a bit, but this is pretty much how I've felt through the movie. What can you learn from an obstacle that just disappears? Not my kind of magic.
I don't like cartoons which have poor graphics. This one had very good graphics, but I didn't like the movie that much. 8/10 seems like a high grade, it's mostly due to the fact that I connected nicely with the characters.
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
I liked the movie but won't go for 10 out of 10. 9/10, though, is good enough
Some things I like about Mr. Tarantino, not only in this movie:
The music in his movies. Not every song is extraordinary, but most of them are in good harmony with what's on the screen and some songs in his movies, this one included, are really great (I really enjoyed the music from Kill Bill, for example).
Sometimes, violence in his movies upsets you. In Django Unchained, some scenes are really upsetting. But in a lot of times, you feel that the violence is somehow justified, and sometimes it's actually funny (in this movie when Bruce Lee loses a fight or the scene with the flamethrower).
He focuses on the details a lot. Everything seems in its place. You feel you aren't watching a movie which could have been done on fast forward, but, instead, it makes you wonder how everything fits well in its place.
Generally, the dialogues are very simple, if there's a mistake people put a lot of emphasis on correcting it (like a misspelled word). Sometimes, the dialogues feel a bit unnatural, but, all-in-all, they are entertaining and easy to follow. As a side note, in the current movie, a little girl speaks way above her age and uses complicated words. It's a bit ironic, and I think it's intentional.
The suspense was quite nicely built. Not exaggerated, but nice. I liked that.
There were some clichés, but, nevertheless the movie was very entertaining.
About this movie:
Too much build-up for the final scene, and other than that pretty much the only action was with one or two fights (with Bruce Lee and in the camp).
The movie doesn't explain anything about Manson Family. If you don't live in the US, there's a chance you know nothing about this, and you will not understand why the people in the camp act as fanatics. You just take them as they are, but don't understand the background.
I liked a lot that the fanatics' lines were biased. It's like the news. If you read some news sources with a clear political orientation, you will see the news is biased, some things are omitted, they try to influence you in one way or another. One bad guy in the movie plans to kill a group of people, but he asks: "Do you think I'm a liar?" (approximate quote). So, it's fine if they kill people, but being called a liar is wrong.
I enjoyed the flamethrower scenes. Also the biting scenes with the dog.
The scene where the dog attacks just at the right moment waiting for a sign from Brad Pitt is a bit stretched. We see in the movie that the dog is trained very well, and there is a good communication between the dog and her master, but that point is a bit exaggerated. Very entertaining, though.
I read later in some reviews of the movie that the neighbor interpreted by Margot Robbie was actually killed by the Mansons in real life. But in the movie, if you didn't know about that, it seemed like there was no connection between the neighbors. They presented a lot of things about the neighbors without a clear connection to the main plot.
I also found the Italy and Al Pacino story of going to Italy irrelevant. They wrote "after 6 months", they could have written "after 12 months, 6 of them in Italy where the main character gets married" and you wouldn't miss pretty much anything.
I've seen some connections with the following movies: The Wolf of Wall Street, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained. I'm sure there were many others.
I haven't noticed Tarantino playing in his own movie. As far as I know, he shows up sometimes in the movies, but I didn't see him here.
Seeing Bruce Lee on the screen was so nice! It made me wonder why other directors don't do this more often.
Toy Story 4 (2019)
Good movie, smart, emotional, not great, though
Very realistic graphics and physics. Total immersion.
I liked the attention to details when Bonnie (the main girl character) picks up her backpack, she also moves a book. A lot of small details like this in the movie. Generally, in cartoons, on the image, there's the background and there are the main characters. The background is just there to be ignored. Here, sometimes things in the background matter.
At some point, Bonnie is called to eat some food, but is warned to wash her hands first. At some point, another warning, to use sunscreen. I liked this part, with educational tips & tricks.
"Listen to your inner voice" - this is one main element in the movie. If you approach this as "trust yourself", I agree. If you view this suggestion as "listen to your first instincts", I disagree with it.
Things which are opposed in the movie:
Old habits of Woody vs. a big change in his life.
Disgust (garbage toy made of elements from the trash can, very realistical graphics, with sometime not-so-good-looking things, flashing neon, and so on) versus pleasure (beautiful graphics, images with the sky, clouds, fireworks, chandelier).
A range of emotions, laughter, romance, sadness, suspense, thrill, envy and so on. You are taken through a lot of emotions in the movie.
A balance between clichés (things work out as you expect, physics and so on) and surprise, you are amazed by somethings, didn't see that coming and so on.
A lot of time, you see toys (mostly, but also other elements moved by the toys) and the people not once look at the objects in their new positions and say "Hmm, the object X has moved, I don't remember it being here 30 seconds ago". It's a very nice game, I really liked it. As a viewer, you always look out for the change "what's going to happen when they see object X having being moved", but this never happens. But you think about it, and await a response, and the game is fine.
"It's not like in commercials". Really enjoyed this. Brings realism into the movie.
Some toys are scary-looking (the Bensons) or disgusting (garbage toys) or old-fashioned and envious and angry (Gabby Gabby). In the movies, you can generally estimate "oh, this is a bad character because they've made it ugly/angry/displeasing". Here, some toys adapt (Gabby Gabby turns good), grow (garbage toys evolve), or get on the good side, but also get ignored (the Bensons). In most movies, a bad character, once recognized by some external features, remains the same throughout the movie. Here, it changes.
I liked the retro toy (Gabby Gabby) and the classic look of the Bensons.
The police are either men (one person) or women (two officers). "What, women can't do X job?". I guess that's fine, I don't think it should come on purpose, I would do this naturally, not on purpose ("let's make character X a woman").
About saving everybody - some characters accept their fate (Bo Peep), others start a new life as a toy of children, others start a new life by helping others (Bunny, Ducky), others are ignored in the end (the people from the club inside the antique shop). While I appreciate Disney's/Pixar's wish to save everybody, I think a valuable lesson is that you just can't do this. Too many. Focus on the main issues. I like that.
The supernatural in the movie is all about the toys. Their ability to talk, their ability to be invisible to humans, while still interfering with their life, their overall impact on the course of action. Here, "magic" is about the main characters, which are the toys. Keep focus. :) I like that!
The most important factors in deciding the future fate of the toys in this movie are just two: Bonnie's love for her toys, and Bo Peeps relation(ship?) with Woody.
Overall, I perceived the movie mostly on a cognitive, not an emotional level. Inside Out (2015) touched me emotionally, some other cartoon where fun to watch, this was a very smart movie, but I didn't consider it very touching. Disney/Pixar surely tried a lot to bring emotions in the movie, but I didn't feel it that much.
At the cinema, pretty much no one stays after the credits start rolling, I would have stayed in the room just after the credits finish, but I'm generally the only one doing so.
There are some movies which are either highly emotional, or I just enjoy seeing them a lot. This movie didn't fit any category.
I've seen the movie with Romanian voices, not the original voices. I've watched two trailers of the movie after seeing it at the cinema and I didn't feel I missed much by not having the original voices. But I would have preferred the original voices of the actors.
Final conclusion: smart movie, well done, worth watching, but not rewatching, and while a good movie, not a great one.
The Grey (2011)
One of the best movies I've ever seen
(spoilers ahead!)
I've read quite a few of the reviews on IMDb and on other web sites.
I think there are two keys of interpreting this movie: - An action movie. - A movie talking about something else than just the action.
In my opinion, a lot of commentators and viewers of the movie focus on this part. a. On the good side, in the movie: - The visual effects are fine, the wolves look nice, the accident is depicted with nice effects. - Sound is good (helped me enter the world). - The main character, Ottway (Liam NEESON), sends you emotions. You see him most of the time, and Liam NEESON does a good job with the character. - There are some pauses for contemplative moments, it makes you think. - Is not at all a complicated movie. Even the spiritual part is quite easy to comprehend.
b. On the poor side, the movie: - Tends to be unrealistic. The storyline (the accident, the way in which wolves are everywhere), the characters (wolves' behavior), the scenery (not too cold). This is totally different from a documentary. - Has a quite poor & simple script, on an action-side comparing. Accident - people die - wolves live. Not too much thinking. - Doesn't care for secondary roles. Yes, Ottway develops well. But there are other characters in the movie, also. At some time, you don't really care they die. - The story is sad. Even if the ending is uncertain (you have to see it after the credits), the movie is rather sad. - Also, it's a violent movie. Sometimes, more about fear-inducing moments, rather than by shocking you with visually displeasing images.
OK, this is what you get by looking at the script, actors, wolves, scenery. From this, you get a feeling that the movie is about 5 out of 10, not a very poor movie, but also not a good one.
Still, some commentators do say some things about the spiritual part, and I will focus on this.
In my opinion, the movie is actually not a movie about survival, nature vs. man, how to fight wolves. Yes, these are themes in the movie, but the movie is not about this. In my opinion, the movie has this message: - You can live a life based on survival instincts. Wolves do this, in the movie. - You can live for other things than just for living as much as possible. There are other things worth living for. This is what makes the humans humans in the movie.
Let's talk about the wolves: - Generally, in nature things tend to be simple: "eat, live, procreate, sleep, and do this until you die". This is the basic model. - The wolves tend to be a bit higher than this, they don't attack to feed themselves, they act to protect themselves. While this is a bit higher than the basic need, it's still a survival action ("I attack you, so that you don't attack me, so that I live"). So, wolves act as animals wishing to survive.
Now, let's focus on the people: - They don't want to hear a scientific, demonstrated truth on how to survive a plane crash, they care about the feelings more than logic. - It's totally immoral to steal a dead man's money. Even if the man is dead. Even if the money would be otherwise lost. - On the opposite, it's totally fine to take with you something of a memory of a deceased person. Even if the person is dead, even if the process of finding the wallets takes time & energy, even if it's not that important to them, they do this for both the memory of the dead one and for their love for the relatives of the deceased. Instead of focusing on surviving, they focus on the emotions of the relatives of dead persons. This is totally opposite to living as an animal, for survival. - The passengers have in wallets symbols (photographs) of their loved ones. - They stop to pray for the deceased prior to leaving the set. - Even if this may get them into trouble, one person defies the wolves by decapitating one and throwing the head at them. - One guy prefers to die alone, in the middle of beautiful scenery. He ignores the surviving instinct and stops fighting. No animal would ever commit suicide. - There are a lot of scenes with courage. - Ottway's wife lives after her death. She's not dead, the memories live past her life. It's in his head. - Finally, the whole movie is a survival struggle - the wolves struggle to live, and even if they attack, they don't dare attacking the group of people. People run all the time. Except for the end part. Ottway faces his fears and attacks. He's alone against the wolves, and he attacks. He's better than the wolves (who don't dare to attack).
To me, the movie is a metaphor - what is important for you? - Living as long as possible, and fulfilling animal desires - surviving, safety, procreation; versus - Living for things which are not material (courage in front of death, living with memories, love for the other, spiritual processes, human habits, symbols)?
Is the movie depressing? Almost all the humans die (even Ottway's wife). Yet, to me, the movie shows that people can live for other things than just surviving. Ottway's wife lives after her death. People who survive the crash, by acting as humans, and not as animals, prove worthy of the name "human being".
Great movie, like "Le notti di Cabiria", explaining life.
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Le notti di Cabiria (1957)
The two emotions that make this film unbelievable
I think there's just two reasons to make make this film the most beautiful thing I've ever seen on screen. I have yet to see a more beautiful movie. I'll explain below.
The first is the play of emotions. At first Cabiria is upset after falling in the water. Then she smiles and laughs. Then she's upset. This transformation of emotions makes you throughout the movie want to see her smile. And when she laughs you're in heaven. With her. This is one reason: transformation of emotions, and your wish for Cabiria to get to laugh.
The second thing that moved me with all my emotions was her reaction to sufferance. In her life she suffered before the movie (bad parents, prostitution, social status, poverty), throughout the movie (although her way of living rarely show you her sufferance in the movie, you feel she's very happy), and probably after the movie ends (again, bad future most likely). At the final part of the movie the pain is excruciating. She loses everything that connects her to the life (all her money & house), love (lover), social status (marriage) and some hope (in life and Virgin Mary). This is all in one scene. Actually, all she has left are her friends and possibly a suitcase. And then it happens: she's happy. In the very final part her reaction is: she yells, while crying, to the rubbing lover to kill her. She repeats this. And the final scene is a victory on life. Sure, her life was, is (oh, boy, what must her feelings be right now) and will be filled with pain. But he takes this reality, a certain fact, nothing's more concrete than this, and twists it: she's happy. In a face of tears, after a horrifying painful experience, she looks at the unsuspecting people around her that are joyful, happy, friendly, and takes their feeling: she smiles, almost laughing. There is no reality. The sufferance is beaten. Life has no hard touch on her. This is much more than hope. She is not wishing for a better future. She's living it now. Life is transformed with her final joy.
I have yet to see a better movie. It's the one movie for which: I registered on IMDb, I voted, I read all the comments, I wrote this comment. No second place. My current top movies: this movie and below this everything else. There's not another movie I would recommend to anyone older than 15.