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mrtremeshko
Reviews
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
Horse doo
Awful, slapdash propaganda about a coward and a traitor. And I say this as someone non-Irish with no skin in the game. Main characters motivations were unclear throughout bc he was acting outside of the realm of human decency and sense. The narrative spin about him and his morals especially at the end of the movie was nauseating. The message of the whole film seemed to be turn your back on your own people and turn to the warm embrace of mommy government. Or in this case daddy government bc the main character's relationship with the spook played by Ben Kingsley was deeply inappropriate. The movie was only redeemed by the two leads who were likeable enough.
Bama Rush (2023)
Director ruins everything
No good footage or enlightening looks into sorority life at all. The girls they followed were charming enough but exploited by the ham-handed direction. How could they have fumbled such interesting subject matter so badly. The director is a poor excuse for a documentarian and is obsessed with herself and her wig. She disturbingly self-inserts throughout the entire film which distracts from what little original footage she managed to capture. . She has little to no understanding of the South or how femininity operates in region. This could have been explored in depth across multiple movies but the director's fundamental disinterest came across in droves. Did she even ever rush a sorority??? Disappointing all around.