godzilla in his most choatic form, where he's still a large reminder of the past but that a past thats hungry and seething for destruction and explosions. godzilla largerly has been that in the heisei but millenium era aswell but the way that godzilla is so determened to spread misery is almost devil like as high lighted by his white eyes.
king ghidorah suprisingly plays the anti hero this time. considering everytime he shows up, godzilla fills the anti hero role but i like this switch up because it further explores how nuclear weapons could kill ANYTHING on earth.
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while xala isn't as great of an achievement in direction, it definitely holds up within its text.
xala is a demonstration on the link between people in power, their culture and the line that eventually begins to blur between them and their colonizers. a line but also conversation that stood out to me was "why do you answer in wolof when im speaking french to you" and that line display a disconnect between the main character and his culture.
there is no say on if HATES his culture but there is a conversation to be had (which of there are many in this film) about the relationship between the colonized and colonizers when in the context of power but also the continue'd suffer but also colonization of africa ingeneral. im not an expert on african history or even the modern climate besides thats its as bad as ever, exploitation is rooted in its history and the washing of culture as well and ousmane sembéne shows us how the african men (but also just people in a position of political power) care as much as the ones they shoved out of the office in the beginning of the film. the film opens with a revolution but was it really a revolution or was it just a way for the egotistical people of the country of origin to pick up the pieces of the french?ousmane sembéne is such a great writer and i wanna take my time with his filmography because so far its nothing short of incredible. we SHOULD be talking about him in the same vein as akira kurosawa or ingmar bergman because there are many layers to his work to be peeled one by one and examined. i do think in part that ingeneral black cinema is just really a blind spot for so many people besides like, jordan peele and the fact that, japan has a lot of work and culture in films which is so large where its not a mystery but african cinema, thats something thats not allowed to shine both in viewcount and spectators but also just the process of films being made.
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not that bad?
im impressed by the incredible production value, from the animatronic used for goro to the impressive sets that are infused with impeccable lighting. sure, the script is not amazing but its also not bad and it clearly has respect for the games and the fight choreography is really good.
genuinely, the blue's and red's used for lighting the film is great and makes the cinematography and action scenes all the more memoreable.
i do dislike the fact sonya blade is reduced to a damsel in distress in the end.Sincerely,
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an exercise in violence but the type that comes from once sick and psychotic mind, one that should be in an asylum but its interesting for that to be said, would he do any better?
from what we know, the man came just out of prison but within the narration and what happens on screen, something sinister sits in his mind which he cannot help and years in prison hasn't obviously helped as prison doesn't change a person for the good, it doesn't make someone better and if anything, while he directly murders this innocent family, it is the prison system and the punishment we lay on mental ill people that causes these chain of events to set in motion.
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pretty interesting twist in the end, i liked it.
BUT a lot of it is generally very long, a lot of those scenes are important but also a lot just point to the same thing, that being the colonization of korea from japan and how the culture mishes and mashes in the wrong ways and the mysoginistic nature of the men in power. i think thats interesting and in a lot of ways, park chan-wook and chung seo-kyung write such a good screenplay but i do have some problems.
for one, a lot of the chemistry is good but when divorced from eachother, sook-hee definitely doesn't stand out as a character despite being at the end rope of the colonization movement in the 1930s, she and many others are hurt by that but you get one definitive scene. it does create sympathy but i didn't find her interesting besides that whenever put into an individual spot.
the digital cinematography is also a thing, it can look beautifull but you can REAAALLLY tell this is park chan-wook's first or second step into digital cinematography allongside cinematographer chung chung-hoon. it CAN look beautifull but also a lot of the images look dull as fuck and while better then most digital films, it feels steril and too cold for my liking. park chan-wook can both be sympathetic and cold but it doesn't always work.
the two lead performances are both fantastic and its themes of colonization and the rejection of that is great but a lot of the times its just repeating the same thing and a quarter of the film is very ugly and sad to look at.
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the most interesting part of this film, for me, is that freqeunt uwe boll collaborator brendan fletcher plays a small role. there are genuinely bits that are good but everything surrounding those bits is either hallow or dogshit.
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i've read some of the top reviews and my main takeaway is that the film is suppose to be very catholic. wether that is true is not my decision to make considering im mainly an atheist.
the film presents a virgin giving birth and im probably missing a lot of things because of my non religious background as im more interested in marie as a character and the implication of her giving birth in other ways. are woman doomed to give birth and maternal life?
birth can be beautifull but the film also makes me feel a sort of unease and what woman actually mean as people that can reproduce. obviously misyogyny is in play but not always and the reality that woman ARE seen as their reproductive organs and the lack their off being seen as something else. but what are woman and also men? are we different? obviously i don't think so but the material structure of life and to extension birth is interesting to dissect and ask ourselves about. its religious text is a mystery to me, like i said but that doesn't put me off necesarrily, in many ways, old and new cinema, religion is there and have created for some of the best works cinema as a concept has given and largely i think hail mary should be in that conversation because it not only works inside but also outside of its supposed religious text.godard you son of a bitch, you did it again. also gives respect to anything named hail mary unlike project hail mary.
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a movie that just kinda meanders without anything.
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some amazing fight choreography, performances but also the way it present its melodramatic tone is great. its like an old chinese ballad.
that ballad is filled with revenge and violence but largely, i found the characters pretty unremarkable. very underwhelming sometimes but cool nonetheless.(watch my feature film, kodak: https://boxd.it/eiiDgn )
this is how 13 year old boys feel when larping being cool.
im seeing obsession maybe today so i wanted to check out curry baker's first feature, milk and serial.
definitely is taking inspiration off the vlog and reality show-effication of the internet in the 2010s and the consequences of that. definitely does also dips half its body in tropes found in social media horror but idk, there is a clear passion even when it doesn't always result in the greatest thing ever. the acting is fine and so is the cinematography, i guess its suppose to feel weird, akward but it just comes over as stupid.
definitely a decent debute tho.
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