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Kairo (2001)
directionless and nonsensical
Would be promising if it were a student film. Never seems to know where it's going next, as if they decided on each next scene as they were making the film. As a result, much repetition and a deadening pace. There's an absolutely confusing procedure by which the ghosts affect people in this world: it involves the internet, phone calls, a computer science experiment, a suspicious grad student, withdrawn behavior, red rooms, dark stains, and _then_ suicides. Good luck figuring out the connections, or when a character is a ghost yet or just acting strangely. Characters are barely sketched, which could be OK, but they're completely uninteresting. It's far too long and ends just when it reaches a promising scenario, although the conclusion is nonsensical. Weakest moment: when "the boss" sits down to give some incoherent advice.
Clash by Night (1952)
worthy drama
Powerful mixture of strengths - written by Odets, acted by Stanwyck and Ryan (Douglas is good, too). It seems limited by its faithfulness to the apparently successful stage version, though. Lang as director doesn't do much cinematic ally. I'd like to know why he was so restrained. Some nice on location boating sequences in the bay, but it's mostly an actors' film, and these are very good actors.
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