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I Care a Lot (2020)
7/10
It's not sexy
6 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Fun acting and cinematography do evoke strong emotions / reactions in the viewer, which is a good thing.

But there is that rotting smell.

What I do find problematic to say politely is this:

The main characters basically wield their state-approved power to pray on the weakest members of society.

Sucking the blood out of their victims and leaving them to die with the backing of the judge a doctor and other high ranking members of society.

Somehow this seems familiar and quite realistic.

Where do I have seen people use state power to pray on others who are unable to defend them selves ?

Basicly you get picked up at home with a legal warrant and send away to die.

Your belongings now belong to the state (actors).

Just like the people who got picked up from their homes by a police force controlled by national socialists in the city where I live.

The paper work was all there.

You had to buy your own tram ticket, and off you went.

It was all totally legal, right ?

Think about it.

What bothers me is that I get the feeling that somehow the film makers want me to sympathize with the main character and her lover.

Sorry., I don't sympathise with child molesters and people who pray on the elderly.

But she gets killed in the last second of the film ?

What sticks in the unconscious mind of the unaware is: they are sooo cool. So smart. So sexy Yes she got killed but only after a glorious battle where she even outsmarted the coldblooded killers of the Russian maffia.

It worries me quite a lot that the film makers could understand that the unconscious message could very well be quite mallicious.

Fascism is not sexy.
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the magic that is TV
2 March 2010
I think "De Zevensprong" is one off the finest pieces of TV made in the Netherlands in the early eighties. I was ecstatic when I found a DVD box of the complete series some 20 years after seeing the series on TV. At the time I believed that all kids in our little kingdom watched this series.,there where only two channels in the dutch language so all of my classmates..I mean every kid I knew at that time watched the series and somehow I remember there was a sense of excitement and secrecy/mystery when we talked about last nights episode. The Tonke Dragt children's book somehow creates a atmosphere in which children get the feeling that they are in on a big secret. this also worked for the TV series and most kids felt that they where somehow taking part in a secret society of children (watching TV) You just knew stuff that other people did not......you wanna know more....you just have to watch! I'm not the only adult with strong feelings for this series...there is a special website and lot's of people made the pilgrimage to the Old castle ( the house of stairs )or staircase castle Excellent messages in the story too. I appreciated the ending more as an adult than when I watched It as a kid. Use your common sense but also take in account that there is a little magic involved in living your live.

Een alleen zal mij niet vinden..........
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Mind Over Murder (1979 TV Movie)
8/10
good "made for TV "movie
12 March 2005
Ivan Nagy,s Mind over murder is I think a good.,"made for TV" movie. Why? Hard to express..the overall impression this movie made on me as a little child was enormous. The sickness of a young totally deranged man in a bizarre entanglement with a vision of pure femininity. Lovely photography and some great special effects make this movie fun to watch.,then there is a very eerie side to it when the filmmakers create a very disturbing atmosphere .,wich I liked as a viewer. Seen this movie at an age of 7 an never forgot story line and stylistics.,when 20 years later I saw the movie again I was again an instant fan. I am aware that for an enormous group of people this movie could be waste of time but when you appreciate a little "style over content" and you are in to scary movies than I would say...Go see this forgotten super 70,s style "thriller macabre".
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