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A Murder at the End of the World (2023)
Another (bad) spin of the "billionaire whodunit mystery"
The show starts off fairy intriguing with the love story/true crime drama between amateur sleuths Darby and Bill on the road to uncover a serial killer who also might be a cop.
To be honest I was immediately hooked on that part. But then it turns out this is old news and actually happened years ago. Instead we are thrown into the present moment 6 years later where Darby just published her true crime book and gets invited to a tech billionaire's retreat. Along with (big surprise) Bill, who apparently she hasn't spoken to since their sleuthing 6 years back.
This is where the show goes completely wrong for me and I literally got so mad I had to stop watching the second episode. Spoilers ahead.
So anticipation is building. This unfulfilled love story between Bill & Darby that seemingly had no resolution (he left her in a hotel room with a dramatic message on the bathroom mirror and they never spoke again?). They finally get to meet again and after saying 5 words to each other HE GETS KILLED. That was the most anticlimactic development ever. Not only there will never be a resolution to their relationship, but we have to spend the rest of the show watching them fall in love in the flashbacks knowing he is already dead and the best outcome of the story might be she will find out which of the rich assholes in the resort killed him. Big whop. It makes no difference! Just like the US sense of justice - post factum. Watching this after episode two feels frustrating and completely futile. So what if she finds out who killed him? Making the audience care about a main character and then killing him off in the second episode is just not good writing.
If this had been a show JUST about these two kids running around solving crimes and fighting the US justice system - it would've been way more interesting, meaningful, relatable and watchable. I don't know how many shows about boring out of touch billionaires you have to make to realize nobody cares or wants to watch that.
Savior Complex (2023)
Sympathy for an "angel of death"
So let me get this straight. Put this into the context of a western hospital. Maybe it's in the USA, maybe it's in Germany (ha-ha, get it). Would you allow a random person with no medical credentials to treat your child as if they had a medical degree? Just because someone is poor, doesn't have access to food or clean water, doesn't mean they don't deserve the best of, or just ADEQUATE care. If you were to provide FOOD and food only, maybe some "community care/support" (whatever that means), then why would there be so many complaints in the matter of years and years?
This documentary for me is not objective enough to put into doubt how big of a threat christian missionaries are in the third world they created. As we see from other reviews even, it only furthers to support the white savior complex.
When you watch a documentary about a serial killer, how often is their point of view displayed as valid and sympathetic?
Didn't you christians invent that saying - the road to hell is paved with good intentions?
No amount of good intentions excuses toying with child lives. I'm sure there's plenty of homeless, hungry, in need of help children in the USA, but it's easier to endanger ones in countries with less laws and general influence in the political world.
This documentary could've been so much more. To expose the inequality in possessing a US passport, US currency, rather than an African one. The voice of an African mother losing her child, rather than an United States one (and I don't say american on purpose, America is a continent and you are not as exceptional as you'd like to imagine).
Documentary superficial at best.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor
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The Little Drummer Girl (2018)
The narrative of "palestinian assasin"
Oh yeah, Isreal a country of 60 years who has a giant military, helicopters, huge border walls and checkpoints, mandatory military training, billion dollar military industry & the support of all the dominating countries in the world, but ONE PALESTINIAN ASSASSIN of a country with no state, no budgets, no institutions, no military, nothing is presented as the fight against evil. Watching complete twisted colonizer fantasy presented as it has any kind of historical accuracy is beyond abhorrent and renders this show unwatchable despite the star cast. Especially if you know anything about history and the apartheid of Palestine. Made in absolute bad taste given the reality.
Black Summer (2019)
No.
I guess it's really hard to imagine humans having half a brain during the zombie apocalypse. Or having any meaningful character development.
Annoying black screen with random words every 5 mins? Check. People being unrealistically dumb? Check. Literally zero dialogue from some of the lead characters? Check. Little absurdities they thought we wouldn't notice? Check. (e.g. The lead actress literally wearing lip gloss mid season or someone's bloody hands magically appearing clean in the next shot). NOTHING HAPPENING, except for chaotic running around and fighting for supplies? C h e c k.
The plotline is messy & hard to follow, because you get a lot of new characters just scattered around (which eventually makes sense but then it doesnt again), the dialogue is subpar and the story development is SO SLOW that even by the second season people have obviously not figured out yet how zombies work and don't even refer to them as zombies or in general. They are just busy fighting like children over their toys and it's pathetic.
I really wanted to love this show, but watching it was more frustrating than anything else. Don't get me wrong, it's an okay show (for this genre) but only if you're just watching it in the background and not having much expectations. Otherwise it's mostly gore & poorly made dystopia. I just keep waiting for something to happen, to get some meaningful storyline but there was none.
I saw some people comparing this show to TWD or 28 days later.. just no. There is NO COMPARISON. It's definitely not the worst zombie show, but you can't compare it to the actually good meaningful ones.
3 metros sobre el cielo (2010)
Soap opera committed to film
You know how really good movies make you feel at a loss of words and all warm inside, even if they were sad you just feel enriched whether it's intellectually, emotionally, visually etc. This movie doesn't make you feel like that at all. It makes you feel one step closer to knowing what a lobotomy is like. After watching it I felt so bad for seeing something so explicitly stupid, I was angry, confused and still can't accurately explain it to full extent, partly because I'm trying to block all the memories of it. I don't know if it's possible to describe the type of moronic writing, that had no logic at all and the terrible truly vile characters.
Spoilers start from here so stop reading if you're seriously considering investing your time in this piece of cinematic art. We're supposed to root for a spoiled over-dramatic rich teenage girl, that really has no idea what she wants/feels or thinks. 90% of the time her only reaction to any situation is to scream and complicate things, while on the other hand takes her 40 seconds to forget what she was hysterical about just now. Super realistic character development is that after her best friend's boyfriend dies she completely ditches her best friend. Stops all contact with her. I mean that's just great writing. And if you think just the female lead is written swell, just wait. The male character (that of course all the girls have a crush on) is psycho macho abuser with severe anger issues, who all in all to the end of the movie has beaten up at least 6 guys, 2 of whom almost to death for no reason. And the viewers are supposed to feel attracted to him or at least sympathetic? Okay, you catch your mom having sex with another guy, you get angry maybe even punch the guy but beat him up like an animal is a little bit over the top. Also a touch of creepy. And this is the only "justifiable" beating in this masterpiece. My favorite part is when a random guy spills wine all over his spoiled rich girlfriend and he got so unbelievably angry(??) that he actually hit the guy in the middle of a fancy event. What makes me MOST confused as to why any sane human being would even remotely sympathize with the male lead is the part where he actually hit his girlfriend. And this my friends is a "love story". Next time you wonder why domestic violence victims stay in abusive relationships - this is one reason. Being indoctrinated by media, print, society, etc. For hundreds of years that abuse is somehow "care" or "passion".
Other redonkeylous macho concepts I was introduced to - the competition of who could do the most pull ups. At least that one gave me a good laugh.
You know how usually things in the plot happen for a reason, or at least there is some logic behind the events, some grand scheme of things? Yeah, well I really missed that principle in Tres metros sober el cello, maybe the plot is just trying to be mysterious. I don't know.
The only reason why I would recommend this movie is if you want to feel this mixed feeling of nausea and shame for being a part of a species that created such vile garbage. The best part is the ending, the suspense of waiting throughout the whole movie, hoping that something meaningful and rational will happen that will make all the terrible things you just saw worth it (or at least justified), and...... nothing happens. I hope I spared someone from feeling dead inside.