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Flugt (2021)
Inspiring
What a lovely surprise. This is such a well crafted telling of a true story that there's not a moment of lagging in it. I was glued to the screen the entire running time. I felt I had some idea of what it's really like to be a refugee after watching "Flee." I just wanted it to be longer. I want to know more about his life, and that of his other family members. "Flee" is also a warning about how we must always be on guard against all forms of authoritarian governments, lest we too find ourselves needing to flee. His sexuality was naturally woven into the web of the story, and it felt completely authentic. Such a good film.
The Essex Serpent (2022)
Just Awful
I've never written a bad review about anything that wasn't offensive, that is if it wasn't sexist, or racist, but this series was offensive in its sheer awfulness. And this is because clearly many of the people involved in making it are talented. It's so bad that I found myself saying out load, this is so, so, stupid. I don't know why I watched the entire season. Perhaps I was hypnotized by the sheer idiocy of it? The cast was good, other than a few times when a couple of the actors chewed up the scenery. But the story line, and the dialogue - good Lord! The whole thing was made up of scrapes of the story line, and dialogue from movies everyone has seen hundreds of times, but in this case it was all much more poorly done. It almost makes me angry that all those resources, and talented people were wasted making this thing. I hope they learn from it. Please do better for the public. We need good escapist fantasy during these difficult times. Please don't make us suffer more than we have to.