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Game of Thrones (2011)
Totally hooked
I don't think there is much else that can be written here about this incredible series. But I thought of adding my personal angle on the experience, as I am totally, irrevocably hooked on this show and cannot wait to see the rest of it. When I first started to watch it I actually found it a bit boring. I was never a real fan of fantasy, disliked the Lord of the Rings series and thought this would not escalate on my priority list. Bt so many friends were talking about it that I thought of giving it a chance. I had a similar experience with Breaking Bad, so it was worth trying. It took 5 or 6 episodes of season 1 to get there, but very soon I became completely addicted to the show, to its characters, to its unbelievable and unpredictable twists to the point that now I am literally FEARING who, after losing so many of our beloved protagonists, will be up next. Just a fantastic show that I hope will continue for a long time and that I wish did non have such a broad hiatus between seasons.
Ultimomostro (2015)
Best way to fight your monsters is to bring one on your side
I enjoyed the central idea in this movie that a simple way to fight the invisible monsters in one's childhood is actually to enlist one of them as your defender. It's a pretty original take on the theme of childhood fear and something I haven't seen so simply, yet coherently developed in a short movie in a while. This is clearly not your typical high budget, fully cast short. As a matter of fact, the end credits are so short that you really begin to wonder who really took part in this production. But, be it the casting choices or the atmosphere that the directors have been able to recreate, it works for most part. The location where they shot it is also interesting: a long corridor with arabesque tiles on the floor, obviously a real apartment rather than a studio set. I found the idea of the high wall filled with dark drawings a very effective way to explain what is actually going on, and some of the pictures are actually kind of scary. Where the short is probably a bit lacking, for the obvious budgetary constraints typical of short movie productions, is in the special effects department. I appreciated the simplification in the story structure and in the basic concept of the movie, but I would have expected a scarier, more elaborate monster. Or not to see it all.