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Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc (2021)
I've never seen anything like this before!
I watched this movie knowing only the title, and I believe the element of surprise elevated the experience. Without spoiling the story, I can say that this movie is perfectly described as a roller coaster ride.
In the beginning of the ride, you have a steady climb ahead of you, which takes its time to get to a high altitude. You keep going upvery slowly, and all you can see is the track going up. The main character is introduced, and we follow her for a good while.
Then, the roller coaster slows down and halts at the top. There's a change of chapter and you're not sure about what's coming next. A dictionary of different words is displayed through text and visuals, words that aren't necessarily interconnected. Then, when you least expected it, the roller coaster gains a lot of speed and goes all over the place super fast. You don't even have time to process everything that you're seeing and you can't see where this is going to take you. You even get a bit confused and scared about how long this part is going to last, yet you can't escape the ride yet.
Then, when you're shaken up for the rollercoaster, the ride suddenly starts going slower as you get to a more steady track, and you realise that the end of the ride may arrive soon. The story returns to the teacher and we find out her fate. Here, the conservative nature of the Romanian culture is displayed, with moments of humour, frustration and seriousness, with many stereotypes of people showing their true colours and values.
But then... the roller coaster reveals a loop out of nowhere, that leaves you upside down and then the ride ends really abruptly. You don't know what just happened, you don't know how to react and as you're unbuckling your seatbelt and leaving the premises, you're still confused as hell.
This review may be relatable to the people who have seen this movie, yet may leave people who haven't seen it yet really confused. And I'm still confused about this movie myself, and this is the best way I can describe this.
I recommend people to watch this movie. As confused about how to feel about this movie, I think this is an excellent thought-provoking experience which could start a debate about real-life cultural problems.
Kynodontas (2009)
What a trip!
I think the overall message the movie is trying to convey is fairly clear, it's about the dangers of home schooling, cults, and indoctrination at a very young age that has lasted until the three children became adults, and the family of this movie represents an extreme case that could actually be legal. The brainwashing and the low education of these children is a reality not only of this movie, which is set in the 70s, but of today as well (the only math problem they have to solve is basic school stuff, but the women can't solve it).
I like several aspects that this movie presents, like sexism (among many things, the son has a guitar, the piano and an easel and even a personal sex servant to have fun with, while the girls have to share chloroform and a headband; also the idea that women peak before their 30, while man are still good until 40), brainwashing (the gaslighting of the children is pretty evident, but the wife was probably brain washed by the husband as a child, as she seems to have lived in human society, as evident by her hiding while throwing a fake small airplane to trick her children into thinking it fell from the sky, but does not understand that she can't give birth to twins and a dog, and chose when to deliver them), fear mongering (being afraid of cats and being told to behave like dogs to fight them like a military training exercise), abuse of power (the security guard who could have lost her job if she hadn't accepted being a private sex worker of the boss's son), complete lack of empathy and sympathy for literally anyone or anything (an example that comes to mind is when the son got hit by a hammer by the sister, his reward was not being comforted by his parent, but he got slapped by his dad instead), and the movie portrays these in an original way.
The movie has many comedic moments, some intentional (inhaling chloroform-like liquid as a fun activity, the seemingly calm and goofy dog that was going to be trained to be aggressive like a rottweiler, the girl getting tired after dancing for 30 seconds at the anniversary show and asking to sit at the table like a child, the obviously fake cat) and others maybe not have been intended to be funny (like the fake blood that squirted out the son's arm stab wound, or the girls face when she smashes her teeth).
I also liked the slow progression of the movie (how Christina introduced the licking as a pleasure thing to someone who understood it as an exchange method, which then transformed into a blackmail way of getting something which led to the climax of the movie).
The animal instincts of the human being, related to sexuality, violence, jealousy and such were conveyed in a very uncomfortable manner, which makes a lot of sense since the characters aren't really human beings since they never lived in the real world with other humans (the themes of the movie reminded me a lot of The Lobster, and I was not surprised when I found out they were directed by the same person).
However, like The Lobster, there are many questions that the movie clearly chose to not answer (like how can overly protective parents have a knife, a weight, garden scissors and a hammer with easy access, why did the dad share to the children the only ways they could abandon the house, if the world was such a horrible place with cats that eat children; and many others). In my opinion, it is clear that you don't need such information to get the message of the movie, but it makes the development of the story less believable and plausible.
My brain naturally suppresses and forgets embarrassing, cringing and uncomfortable moments, so I believe I'll forget most of this movie in a few months. Hence, even though I like the already mentioned themes and the presentation of the movie (I was always engaged and never bored), my apparent low score comes from the fact that all the discomfort and unrest I felt while watching this movie will eventually lead me to only remember very little things about it. Yet, I understand and respect very positive reviews of this film and I will still recommend other people to watch it once in their lives (as well as The Lobster).
My favourite part of the film has to be the last shot of the movie, where it is framed in a way that made me expect that the daughter would open the trunk and escape, but nothing happens. In my view, this is a big metaphor that now I was the one that was living in a movie fantasy where the girl escapes and wins, while the movie was the realist one, where she probably never left the trunk derived from the fact that she doesn't know how car works, and probably would not understand the lock mechanisms. Interesting touch to end this interesting movie.
Lady Bird (2017)
Maybe I don't get it?
With this movie being nominated for 5 oscars, I was extremely excited to watch it. However, now that I have seen this movie, I am very confused as to why. I can't relate to anything about this movie. But maybe that has to do with my upbringing. I am not American nor went to a catholic school. Prom really isn't a big thing, and wanting to be friends a popular girl/boy is not special. There weren't any theater clubs in my education system. So I can't relate to the main character and it's struggles and successes. As a movie, I thought it was fine, nothing too special. The actors were good, the cinematography was decent. But the story didn't strike me positively at all. So maybe I just don't get the whole movie because I just can't relate to anything about it. I hope I'm not the only one
Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018)
meh
I like to say I understand about movies and film making, and this movie has many flaws. Technical aspects such as music and light are ok, nothing special
But the story and the characters are way too generic, boring and annoying to be real people. These characters are just generic movie characters written by script writers that obey to movie stereotypes and have no human emotions or rational thought
I am no dancer nor am I familiarized with the evolution of modern hip hop, but I thought the dancing was good for the most part
The thing that annoyed me the most about the dances is that the sequences never last more than 5 seconds, so any dancer that would like to replicate the choreography would not be able to do it, since every 5 seconds, the movie cuts to a different routine where the same characters are suddenly in different places of the stage dancing something different to the same song. So besides of not being a good movie for movie enthusiasts, it's not even dancer friendly
This movie has already been done a million times, yet didn't innovate a single thing considering other similar movies. All the dancers were good, and their potential was not fully broadcasted in this film, which is a shame...
Fellini - Satyricon (1969)
Visually stunning, but that's it
The visuals are very good, considering that this movie was made in the sixties.
But I gotta say, it's just too much, it tries to be different, but it gets boring very easily.
I got bored and looked to see how much of the movie was left, and it was 40 minutes, and those went by pretty slowly...