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Uglies (2024)
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder..
Watched it because I love sci-fi and dystopian movies. It is a teen movie and I've past that age by far so I'll leave the rating to the teenage audience. Joey King is convincing which must be challenging considering she is supposed to play ugly when in fact she is very pretty. Peris on the other hand undergoes surgery to be beautiful and ends up really ugly. You don't get much more beautiful than Jan Luis Castillano, Charmin Lee, Keith Powers or Brianne Tju and they're on the "ugly" side? Over all it's a superficial production. Hope the message is clearer in the book. The last 14 minutes are promising for a better sequel though...
Håndtering av udøde (2024)
Slow and sad jewel
Handling the undead is not really a horror movie or a typical Zombie movie. There are hardly any bites at all. It's really about handling the loss of loved ones. You follow three families in their grief and how they cling to the idea of their loved ones return, when in fact they are still dead. Watching this beautiful movie with absolutely fantastic actors my thoughts go to The last of us and The girl with all the gifts. Two of my favourites. But if you think they are slow, this one might put you to sleep... Just get past the first few scenes, then it rises. And as it ends you know you've seems something sad but beautiful.
Old Dads (2023)
Excellent movie
This movie is spot on in the portrayal of a majority of men in that generation. The double standard, the misogyny, the lack of compassion and education. Their conservative ideas of marriage, religion (maybe more a US thing) in combination with a confused gender role, and not being able to be real and honest, is now making them confused. They can't understand why they are no longer setting the standard. The rest of the people in this movie are effectively portrayed through their eyes, as caricatures (PK:s, pick-me girls, women eating ice cream talking about men) just to make it clear to the viewers how conflicted these men are. The movie gives you a better understanding of why the world is like an idiocracy. The only thing not so real in this movie is that women in their thirties would find any interest in these clowns. Not very realistic. I didn't finish the movie, but I expect they lost their jobs, women and ended up in some home for elderly dreaming about the eighties ad remembering how they used to rule the world.
No One Will Save You (2023)
An attempt to interpret. Many spoilers!
I think the movie is about coming out of a trauma, forgiveness and loneliness. As a young girl Brynn accidentally kills her best friend. People around her, neighbors and townsfolk, see her as a murderer (mother of friend spitting at her, people not waving back, mailman playing with her parcel). Before killing her friend, Brynn is a young girl about to grow up and beginning to know herself. After her friends death she is full of fear and she misses her friend, but subconsciously she also starts questioning herself. Is she a murder? As a grown up Brynn is portrayed as a child mimicking grown-ups, and she is totally alienated from the world around her. That's when the aliens arrive. The first one she kills by mistake, just as she killed her friend. The second one is killed by luck. The aliens keeps on coming, one stronger or bigger than the other, and so it goes on. She kills them off with growing confidence and skill - growing with her challenges. There are lots of things happening here that is metaphorical... In the end of the movie she understands that the killing of her friend was an accident. She knows there is not a murderer inside her and she can forgive herself. In the final scenes she is no longer alienated from the people. She has forgiven them because they saved her from loneliness, as she has forgiven the aliens for helping her overcoming trauma and grow up. And so the aliens and the people become one. With aliens as metaphors for Brynns fears, I think the movie brilliantly lets us share her terror.
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace (2023)
Terrible production, no moral and no empathy
To the producers: Another one of those speculative and tasteless documentaries, with the sole purpose to get attention and make money. I don't understand how it can be legal to expose a child this way. This is a child with disabilities, and she has been through trauma after trauma. You use neighbours as character witnesses, neighbours who believe she is an adult, who don't understand she is a traumatised child. How can you interview the adoptive couple's son? He is clearly under the control, and manipulated, by a deeply disturbed and narcissistic father. And you market this documentary in comparison to the horror movie the Orphan??? Shame on you!
Just saw season two. And now the poor girl is exploited again, and in the hands of new predators. Jesus, somebody help her!