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Seberg (2019)
Seberg
The title and the poster make it obvious on who you should focus on, Seberg.
This film is about Jean Seberg, an actress who came undone being pulled apart by social pressures and the FBI. What I mean by this is bullying and what that bullying had caused in her life.
Life is hard to live sometimes but for Jean Seberg it was made worse when the FBI got involved. In today's world, social media and cyber bullying have caused harm to many and many have died due to it, committing suicide. This type of bullying is sometimes caused unwittingly by people who don't know better but sometimes by those who do, despite the consequences it could bring. In this film, the bringers were the FBI and the consequences are on display in SEBERG.
Like a type of cyber bullying, in this movie the FBI secured private images and audio of Jean Seberg and posted it for people to share and see. At times they falsified the information to purposefully hurt her and those she was involved with. They hacked/broke-in and invaded her private space to gain more information to use against her causing her to develop extreme paranoia. Any and all moments of peace in her every day living were taken away if not by the FBI but by the paranoia they caused. Due to this, Jean Seberg had difficulty maintaining healthy relationships and eventually brought her to her own destruction.
Kristen Stewart is a master actress in this film. It is awesome to see the real and progressive changes a person goes through with mental illness in this film. I have to say this is by far the best acting I have seen produced by Kristen Stewart. I am proud of her for the justice she has brought to Jean Seberg in playing this role. I am excited to see what next she brings to the silver screen.
Everyone did a great job in this film. I am saddened to see the expectations of some critics, wanting or expecting to see a storyline happening around the life of Seberg during this time in her life. I did not do this and appreciate the meaning of this true story.
Kristen Stewart, I give you the Movie Worth Watching Again And Again Award for Best Actress in this film. The award will be in the form of me watching this movie again and again. Thank you for that, Kristen. Keep up the great work!
Earth to Echo (2014)
This movie makes me sick!
Going into the movie, I was nervous about viewing it. Having two passes, I engaged my roommate to join me and while he drove to the theater I looked it up. I was not 100% clear on its development. I wondered if it was recorded like Cloverfield (2008), Quarantine (2008) and, the ever so dreadful, The Blair Witch Project (1999).
All of those films I went to see and each gave me violent motion sickness. Paying for a film which one does not get to enjoy, having to exit and void the stomach of its outrageously purchased contents from the concession stand, is truly unjust. I had vowed never to see those types of films again. Yet, much to my dismay, I saw a comment answering my question – it was.
Being half way there, and six years since of avoidance to any film shot as such, I decided to give it a chance. For the first thirty minutes, I did not feel any of the effects of illness. However, like an ingested drug, the effects quickly began soon after thirty minutes. Not being brave like the lady before me who faced down, resting her forehead on her hand supported by her elbow on the armrest, I stood up to leave. I was unable to finish the film so had to ask about the ending I would have liked to see for myself.
I'm sure the director, Dave Green, or screenplay writer, Henry Gayden, may have produced the work this way, to give the perception of realism, but all it did was take away from the story. In doing so, the story was defeated with an unjust amount of unsteady scenic shots, gross amounts of odd angles, and robbing audience that do get motion sickness the ability to enjoy the story to its end.
This film had numerous comical lines that made the audience laugh, ECHOed by the children, making it cute and enjoyable, for those unlike myself, who may share it with their like family. However, I was unable to finish the film and in being the case I will have to mark it harshly as it marked me harshly.