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Mikael-wester
Reviews
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (2022)
Some really amazing women
I read some books about this. It's upsetting. Seeing all is this amazing women talking about their experiences is surely upsetting. Makes you realize that there're are a lot of evil human's around. But also a lot good once around. Trying to put things right. For many of these women the fight is not over. They still got children stuck in this hell hole. It's a story about the corruption that always, it seems, follow total power. It's also a story about children growing up in a toxic environment. Without realizing that. Incorporating it as their core beliefs. Inheriting it from their parents and passing it on to their children. Takes a lot of courage to break that chain. Would I have been able to do that if I had been born in to that environment? Don't know. I would probably been kicked out, as so many other young men are. If I was born into the same position as the cult leader. Would I have made better choices? I think public schools and kindergartens are so important. It gives a lot of children a chance to look outside of their families. Se other points of views. The the truth that parents "always know what's best for their children" is a lie. This film is a prof of that. The fact that some prominent media figures came to defend this cult is upsetting. Have they made amends?
Baby God (2020)
It grows slowly into a nightmare
I guess that what how you react to a film says as much about yourself as of the film. Your expectations also influence you. I had no expectations other than to escape my own boredom. But slowly , what started out like a story I heard before, grew and dimensions opened up that surprised me. I'm a retired family dr and my kids are adopted. Even if it's extremely upsetting that dr used their own sperms during fertilization treatment. Without consent! Here we have a dr that impregnated humans that didn't seek help for infertility! Molesting his own children! Interesting individuals each and every one that speaks. Something like" even if you have all the facts , doesn't mean you got the hole truth/story." So true.
Jack Ryan (2018)
8 is overrated
Same old story. But with bigger holes than normal. Cliché after cliché. As always a hero ''the all American boy''. Gave up after 4 episodes.
Good actors , but the script writer can't have had resources enough.
The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith (2022)
An excellent documentary that give the story the time needed.
So much sadness. No winners except,maybe, the killer that got away.
Haven't met so many confessed killer in my life.
Luckily.
But my belief has been that it's probably best for the killer to get caught too.
Serve his time and after that become part of society.
But with all cold cases being solved with dna.
A lot of the killers being dead and seemingly have lived normal lifes after.
Who knows.
A lot of people in this story have spent a long long time in pain and sorrow.
Hopefully they have had moments of joy too. But this has always been there. Like a dark cloud on a summer day.
They are all victims of circumstances and the culture of our time.
Beverley Lynn Smith is given time and seems to have been an amazing human.
Her twins sisters pain must have been unbearable.
Reminded of her sister every time she looked in the mirror.
Her hole family. The pain.
Her daughter's insightfulness about what the popularity of ''true crime'' probably have on us all.
The police are also victims. Working hard and failing.
Believing in the false science of suppressed memory and pressing that that woman so she changed her story over and over again.
But also victims of the human brain and its inclination of tunnel vision and difficulties of admitting that we have been wrong. Even to ourself.
The police in charge must have a hard time.
A good hard working police but he will probably be remembered mostly because of this failure.
That I can relate to. I'm an retired family dr. You can work for 40years doing a good work. Nobody, except your clients notice.
One mistake and you're noticed a lot more.
The false science of lie detectors and our inability to detect a lie and our overconfidence that we are good at it.
For me it's obvious that the accused man didn't do it.
An overconfident lie detector expert and the misconception of suppressed memories really destroyed his life.
It seemed as what saved him was good lawyers.
It's not hard to understand that her family still think of him as the killer.
But the daughter showed an amazing ability to reconsider it in the future.
The members of the Big team, clearly lack common sense and empathy.
I would have confessed to killing anyone to get out of that.
But maybe the only way to work undercover is to block empathy or , maybe, only individuals with low ability in that volunteers?
Some declined to be part of the movie.
Understandably.
Good documentary, but how do true crime affect us?
Sorry for spelling and grammar. Dyslexic and English as second language.
Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygård (2021)
As good as it gets.
4 episodes of high quality. Unmasking a monster, created , partly by inequality. That between male and females, rich and poor. He made money that made it possible to abuse so many. Silence so many. I'm a MD and former therapist. Reality is like this. Rape victims blame themselves and the delay until they start therapy is long and painful. If you're a victim - get help. Good treatments are available.
Love Fraud (2020)
Golden age of documentary film
But as almost always nowadays when it comes to documentaries too long. But if your not in a hurry and want to see colorful middle aged women, enjoy. Last 25 min in episode 4 are well worth seeing. But to get the value you must see what's before it.
1917 (2019)
Hard to find anything wrong with it.
Good movie. No glorification of war. Good movie. No glorification of war. Good movie. No glorification of war. Good movie. No glorification of war.
Unabomber: In His Own Words (2020)
Misleading title but it gets better and better.
Not in his own words, but plenty of tape recording of him speaking. The series improves as it goes along. Last episode is excellent and heartfelt. The human dilemma his brother went through is hard to grasp. In ''Manhunt: Unabomber'' the none documentary. I think the story is that the brother managed to make a deal about securing a non death sentence before naming Ted to the FBI. If I remember it rightly. He didn't. Both sides of the story is shown.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
A bad movie, but not as bad as the original ones.
I loved the original ones when I first saw them. But I saw them again 30 years later and realized that they aren't really that good. They haven't aged well. But the myth , collective delusion they have created mostly by luck have made it big business. The films after the first trilogy are often not as bad as the first ones. But still bad .
No One Saw a Thing (2019)
Some flaws
They obviously never heard of 'the law of small numbers''. Maybe the story should have taken the lynching in the 1930s as the starting point.?
La casa de papel (2017)
Good acting and dialogue, but the plot got too many holes
Script writing must be under paid in Spain as well. But I guess it's harder than I know to construct a story for this many episodes. The list of stupidity is too long. One example when you bleed to death your pulse is not slowing down. It races, but get weaker and you could at least put some makeup on, so he really is ''as white as the snow in Stalingrad''. But maybe it's the translation to Swedish?