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Sightless (2020)
Hitchcock type psychological chiller
Enjoyed it.
Nice twist mid way. Think along the line of the hitchcock classics like Rope,Wait Until Dark, Rear Window. This movie falls in a similar style of a psychological chiller. Quite well done.
Unpregnant (2020)
Teen Buddy road trip movie - pretty average 4/10
About a 17 yr old girl who accidently gets pregnant, and, because she doesn't want her parents to know, and her state only allows abortion with parental involvement, takes a road trip to Texas with her teen childhood friend to get an abortion with some LGBT themes thrown in.
At best - its a pretty average teen buddy movie.The whole abortion is treated like a painless dental routine. This is a subliminal movie with themes signalling a pro abortion stance. The buddy teen is an unwanted child with no connection to her father, as he felt trapped and walked out on the family. The boyfriend is a idiot manchild who the main character is lucky to have escaped from. Going to college after a child is portrayed as impossible.
In real life, I have changed from being pro-choice to being more pro-life. I was in the same place when I supported my GF when she got the same procedure, as we were both 'too young' but we found years later she now cannot carry a child full term without suffering the horror of miscarrages. This can be a long term complication of having an abortion for many. The clinic did not say anything to her about it, but I doubt she would have listened to what sounded a remote possibility as in a similar way to the main character the child was set to 'destroy her life plans'.
No such complications are mentioned in the movie. No moral issues about killing the fetus are covered either. It's simply a consumer choice.
Indeed, I also treated it as 'just a bunch of cells' at the time, but as the small window of time for a woman having a child - i.e. 17- 30 has now closed, leaving my GF likely childless, there is nothing but regret at what could have been.
The truth is there is, never, of course, a 'good time' to have a child. And thats why it's important it's not treated just like a dental procedure. The picture of destruction of life's possibilities, tied to unwanted responsibility when young is overwhemling. The true alternative picture is never given. At the worst it's about 12 months out of a womans working life, if not a lot less, and there is plenty of state support out there for career women with children doing all the 'life preventing' things as anyone else - going to college, rights enshrined in law, maternity pay and job rights. There should be more done - thats true. But unfortunately the activism is all about the choice to destroy, not accomodate. It seems that choice of a positive future with a child is never presented.
We now face incredible levels of demographic decline, wholly caused by such easy 'dental visit' access to abortion, and the levels of childnessless poses very very severe problems for our economy and everyones future, so these kind of pro choice movies, like the choice to smoke, need to be assessed on what the full price of such choices mean.
Still Here (2020)
Excited to see this...but a flop
Based on a true story - except it's not. What story ? It's made up nonsense. It's a hodge-podge of a white deranged liberals view of society. Such a shame as a real case could have been good.
Police are ignoring a missing kid - (because the family is Black!). We get a statistic totally out of context on the screen that states about half a million kids are missing in the US. (But neglects to tell that 99.9% are back within a few hours).
Anyway, It starts with the missing girl's father pathetically trying to put 3 flyers up and then attending a pointless 'group talk' meet, (which crops up again and again throughout the film) - rather than doing something about publicising his daughters plight.
When the white liberal hero journalist tries to interview the father, at his project high rise apartment he irrationally gets angry about it and kicks him out wanting no publicity (Because he's Black and thats just part of the Black experiance no doubt??).
But the Journalist manages to 'jive talk' with a agressive black gang outside to get a lead on a suspect which he writes about. Now in the heat of publicity, the corrupt police are forced to act.
However, the suspect is Black and therefore doesn't survive Police Custody.
The corrupt Police then try and arrest the Black Brother of the missing girl. And it goes on and on - the Black father is a cardboard character who gets sidelined to blabbing impotently at group meetings and other useless impotent behavour, while the focus is on the hero White liberal Journalist who does the job, gets beaten up etc... and pounds the pavement to dive deep to find out what happened to the girl.
You simply can't get over how conceited and biased the film is when watching it.
Devils (2020)
Disappointing plot and characters but liked the backdrop and timeline.
What works well is the backdrop of the Bank crises and news. The shots of the city and news clips lift this drama and lift the pacing up.
The characters and plot is superficial, eg; cookie cutter hacker - i.e. 'Ghetto' black youth who magically happens to have superpower hacking skills - (about as realistic as having neuro-surgical skills), intrepid young journalist who works for wikileaks with a backstory, big boss who is scheming and somehow involved in the crises. The lead - a star trader, is unbeliveably leaden and unexpressive while uncovering the dirt.
Yet I can't completely write it off, as its an enjoyable watch for the drama is set against the news timeline and city shots which greatly lift up and add pace to the poor writing, characters and dialogue.
But this is a poor shadow, compared to the excellent 'Bad Banks' which has a similar trading team, but realistic and vicously flawed characters, more rounded and real ethnic characters, in act more realistic all round, with razor sharp written plots and subplots set in a thiny disguised version of Deutshe Bank with wonderful portrayals of corporate psychopaths throughout!
Billions is American pap compared to Bad Banks.It's not a fair comparision to this.
Maniac (2015)
remarkably unfunny childish comedy
The character is on one level a mental patient in a secure facility, but in his imagination a spy, solider etc... the trouble is this format is highly constrained to childish and crude plots of his imagination as we switch from reality to his imagination constantly. Literally like watching a 5 year olds imagination. Maybe good for under 10s to watch. Totally unfunny for adults.
Solteras (2019)
Quite funny. Don't believe the low ratings from the woke crowd.
Hmm...Seems to be getting a bit of a bashing for nonsense like being dubbed, or the character has the wrong name, is unappealing etc...1 star seriously? Well I smell BS!!
The nonsense 'woke' idea is that a woman in the modern world is now = to a man. To portray otherwise means vicious 1 star ratings and reviews online!
The hate and nonsense low ratings for for this movie is without a doubt from the woke crowd. A few of them must have a meme going on twitter, effective where there are only a few reviews like this movie presently, to snuff out these 'anti-feminist' movies of women facing the reality of finding a mate in time and even worse scheme to marry them!
Don't let them put you off!! This is a genuinely funny, warm and touching movie.It honestly got me laughing every few minutes and its been quite a while since a movie did that!
This is almost like a female version of 'School for Scoundrels' (1960) but funnier and more modern! I didn't think anything like this could come from Mexico! Loved it!