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Inside Out (2015)
not for children
poetic and metaphorical, this film is not for children. My five years old son had difficulties to explain to me the story of the movie afterward.
of course is it full with ideas, like the explanation to the nervous breakdown, but is what the children need ?
Only the parents laughed during the scene of the meal with the husband which does not listen and the memory of the Brazilian pilot.
It was not a magical family moment for us. I like the idea to treat the children like adults able to understand grown up issues - but sometimes we need to relax and change our minds from the daily problems.
6/10 for adults 1/10 for the children
The Hunger Games (2012)
tour de force
I loved this movie. Haven't read the book i did not know what to expect. At the end it was my greatest movie experience of the year so far.
Above all what i really like about the movie it's that the director manage to not put us as a spectator (voyeur) of the actual Hunger Games but as a witness of a dislocated future were children will kill each other for the pleasure of the population thus the government keep them in control keeping them entertained and letting a glimpse of hope for the ones with a life more difficult. A kind of tour de force, in "battle royal" for example my feeling as a viewer was very different.
However this future is anything but original. It is a kind of a modern Roman Empire.
I guess the fact that we do not really see any of the killing it is a great director's preconception. First we do not want do see slaughtered children, second the paradox with an ultimate reality show and the decency in death it is very interesting.
The pace is well handled, the suspense does not exist since we know from the beginning the ending but it does not matter since it is not the purpose to keep us wondering who is going to win since we are not the spectator of the TV show.
Some people complain about the dull love story, but there is no love story, may be a friendship, but no love. It is fake it is TV. At the end the mentor must put words inside Katniss's head to express feelings what she does not have. It is very deep and may be it needs lot of discussion to list everything that people can do in a reality show to become popular.
That is my understanding of this movie, i love everything about it form the acting, the directing, the customs, the music and even the strange beard of Seneca !!!
10/10
Dexter: This Is the Way the World Ends (2011)
F***k the dark passenger
The endless lament about the dark passenger is too much for me now. We got it writers, stop with it !!!!!
This last episode is boring as the whole sixth season. Plots holes and even plots abyss. Nothing makes sense.
This last episode just make me believe I was watching a Southpark parody of dexter.
Funny if not so pathetic.
Where did the refreshing originality goes ?
Thankfully we are left with the enigmatic Louis Greene but did we really need a whole season to introduce him ??
The Hangover Part II (2011)
could have been perfect
I was expecting a Hangover Revamp but Hangover part II is so much more.
Very funny and original. The meditation part when Allan see what happened that night but being children is amazing, reminding me the manga Kimengumi which is one of my favorite manga. I do not think it is insulting for Asian, as far as I can remember an Thai trans came inside an American man.
The ending picture slide-show is funnier than the first one. I could not stop laughing for hours afterward.
The only downside is the pedophile joke. I really think we are able to laugh about almost everything but abused childhood or slave children is anything but laughable. I wish they cut off this part in a new cut.
Dexter: The Getaway (2009)
dash off
I love this episode as much as i hate it.
How did the guy recognize Dexter as the guy who break his car rear mirrors ....... Dexter is in Arthur's house during a police assault and nobody wonder what does he do here ...........
etc..... The shortcuts that the writers took are very disappointing.
The SEVEN's like ending is shocking, terrible but déjà vue. Dexter got his life reloaded through his child' eyes.
The series Lost would surprise us with an unexpected death. I am waiting more from dexter TV show.
Despite all this, it was a good season, the best show ever and i am already waiting for the next season. What would be next ? Did that really happened ? Dexter is going to be a mentor to his son ? Deb will find out all about Dexter ?? All this sound very interesting
Dexter: Hello, Dexter Morgan (2009)
so not dexter
Dexter kills innocents, Dexter get innocents killed, Dexter let someone take the blame for trinity murders.............
He has definitely lost the little morality that made him interesting and complex as a character. I guess being a father, brother, husband, scientist, serial killer and a kind of super-heroes can't be as smooth and portrayed easily as it looks to be. -)
Making mistakes makes Dexter more human that he should be and thus less fascinating.
May be it is why I did not like this episode. Everything has been done to arrive to the pseudo climax with the head to head Dexter vs. Arthur........
So many flaws (walking through a police station ohohoh) on this episode, predictable ending and many other annoying stuff ( Trinity set up was so obvious we wonder how Dexter bought into it so quickly)
Terrible.
Dexter: Dirty Harry (2009)
wow
I must admit that i thought the new seasons started very badly, Dex not in control, the improbable romance between Batista and laguerta, the return of old lost love for Debra etc So many clichés that almost made me forgot that Dexter was the most innovating TV show i show for decade.
But the 2 last episodes are so amazing, intense and again surprising. The ending of episode 4 was so unexpected that i thought that the writer will never surprise me again since i know that now everything is possible on this TV show. But i got shocked and so amazed by the ending of episode 5, i guess i had the same face than Dexter when he saw what we saw. I cannot remember to have been so connected to a reaction of a character than i was during the ending of this episode. I still cannot get over it today.
Bravo !!!!