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Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
Tarantino has been doing the same filme since Pulp Fiction.
It's been so long I don't write a review here, I'm going to write a lot, but rest assured that everything is worth reading. I think that now is the time to warn the people who are thinking about wasting their time with Tarantino movies, so here it goes.
Tarantino is an object of adoration among a ''group of people'', mostly of them female, because of Uma Thurman's character Mia Wallace and Travolta's uncompromising rescue of her comprised of fully consented misdemeanors. So due to this, Tarantino has been bathing in comfortable approval for 25 years. For that reason, he got a pass to keep doing the same movie for a very long time and I'm happy to be able catch a glimpse of its end. I don't think he can keep getting away with it and that is a good thing for us all. No other movies of him are worth mentioning.
Tarantino movies are fetishist movies, he can bewitch his audience to enjoy the things they are supposed to despise. All of them have the same premise of ''straight face tension building'' to end in a release of graphic violence of ideological antagonists. The watcher enjoy some sort of catharsis and It all feels very similar with LVT movies, but worse, because it has no wits to it. At least the later is able to fool me. I think that at minute five or eight, he uses a plot device subterfuge to state that this is still a Tarantino movie and that his admires should keep watching, but it is so in the face that is gross. At that minute I knew, the emperor was naked after all.
Minor SPOILERS ahead, tread carefully:
Now that tables have turned, since he went to bite the hand that feeds him in this new movie, we are safe to have a go at him just because the best character, who is played by Brad Pitt, is apparently, an unapologetic misogynist who killed his wife, but learned to navigate the world and stay out of jail just fine. So with that sort of premise, we can easily point the finger at the reasons people are signaling to him that he should stop. Isn't it funny that I happen to agree with them, even if the reasons to do so are not the same?
Well, I'm not going to waste your time like Tarantino did, so I'll go ahead and say the best and worst thing in the movie. The most clever thing in this movie that is worth mentioning and rating is a sort of ''metaplay'' between what Di Caprio's character, Rick Dalton, does in the movies he plays(he is an actor), and what Di Caprio's is actually doing in this movie(acting). He plays a once famous actor who is now coming to terms with not playing leading characters anymore, while at the same time, Pitt's character, Cliff Booth, is a unemployed ex-stuntman to Rick wich is depicted as a supporting role, but is actually leading it. This sort of anti-hero playing juxtaposing their conflicting ideals and still having them as best friends to one another is the chemistry that weaves this movie together. Rick Dalton is fragile, unstable and has many vices while Cliff Booth is reliable, strong and confident. These perks work together to underscore their characters flaws and qualities and I have to admit that this is very clever and why I rated it 4 stars, otherwise I would have rated it 1.
I can't be sure, but at this point, I don't think there is no other review which have acknowledged the fact above, so in a way, they are not being honest with the director and I just wish they would. They are just displeased that he decided to poke at their insecurities, which is also another thing one can use to understand the characters while having fun at the same time, even after the movie is over. These people just can't handle to be criticized.
The worst part about the movie is everything else. Cardboard characters that have no reason to be, have no depth. Even Margot Robbie's Sharon Tate, whose history serves just as a background to an anti-climax that is absolute distasteful. I'm not going to spoiler it not say what it all means, I'm just saying that his tricks are obvious and the only people who can be puzzled by it are the people complaining that ''they don't like him anymore''. I never liked his movies and I think his tricks are finally wearing off, which is a good thing.
I hope you enjoy the movie, because I couldn't. It is slow and boring, but Pitt is wonderful as an unapologetic guy that nudges at his comic representation of Lt. Aldo Raine in Inglorious Basterds, which is also a bad movie.
Short Term 12 (2013)
This is not a movie.
Everyone is extremely comfortable in their roles. You can go as far as saying Rami Malek is not and everyone else is acing it, but it is not true.
This movie delivers the most heartfelt depiction of children victims of abuse and perfectly balance between heavy and lightweight content so you can enjoy and not feel like s#!7 going through all of it.
It makes you look at everything through other lenses. It is not like a sad or happy ending, it is just a real ending.
I was convinced that I had seen everything about reality in movies with other directors. I was clearly wrong, I don't know if it's been a long-shot by the director or he knows what he is doing, but I'm definitely going to watch everything he has done and it is going to do from now on.
Everything is perfect, the supporting role(boyfriend) is like a Paul Rudd on gamma rays and becoming the Hulk of acting. He completely nails his performance and I couldn't say if more would be possible from anyone else in this movie.
I was blew away and really thankful I picked this one.
Monster (2004)
Kieslowski goes to Japan
This is not even an anime, it is a masterpiece of storytelling. I apologize for writing a long review, but I'm sure it is worth reading, as well as Monster is worth watching.
Imagine if ever Kieslowski(Trilogy of Colors) was alive and had the amazing idea of writing a show about how cruel and devoid of hope the world is. While writing it he instead discovered that, in fact, it is not. That the world is full of hope, even for the broken and engulfed by darkness. That everyday is new for us to live it.
Not is simple in Monster. The show successfully tackles everything from racism to torture, manslaughter, child abuse, laws, crime, social welfare, ethics, economics and politics. Every single subject from human nature is amplified at the same rate that is made short for us to be able to understand, all with a subtle and gentle touch.
If you ever feel bored during its 74 episodes, please do not give up, it seems you are watching fillers, but every single episode has its meaning to the overall arc and comes together really nice.
Not to forget about incredible OST, opening and ending themes. When the ending theme sets in, you really can grasp what the show is about... David Sylvian's - For the love of life is the perfect song for the ultimate human experience that is watching and understanding Monster. That "...after all, that's what we are--nameless monsters."
Amanhã Nunca Mais (2011)
The art of saying no...
I don't understand why we do not have a review about this movie yet.
IMHO it is one of our most well made psychological dramas. Also it is an excellent getaway from our horrible and "pastichezed" comedies, provenient from the most common movie producer, GLOBO filmes.
We can see Lázaro Ramos is spot on into his character and delivers. You can actually relate on how unforgiving is every time he nods, going into a guilty struggle immediately. The movie is an ode to the good intentions and the condescending. It shows how is important to position yourself and that it is not about not letting people taking advantage of you, but sometimes you just can't put yourself in the second place. Tension keeps growing until he is close to lose it and the movie does not disappoint in the end.
The icing on the cake here goes to Arnaldo Antunes song when the credits roll. It is a nice jest and eases the tension we built throughout the movie and its final message, "We are always on our way home".
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Death and its toll
Since the review I've read talks only about the technical aspects of the movie, I feel like dropping by my feelings while I was watching the movie.
I was expecting to watch a movie with some good ol'shooting going around, but I was terrible wrong, but surprisely not disappointed. This movie tells history, what comes packed together is a story of a man and a boy, both trying to survive in an hostile environment which was in the turmoil of change, they are somehow uncertain of their future as they swung between manhood, confidence, trust, fear and love. Brad Pitt was never a pretty face and he shows it to us at every single movie, and Casey stands out in the screen, we could have had another in his role, but I'm glad we didn't.
To cut out the chase here, I think this movie tells the story of death through life and vice-versa, both at the same time. It shows how many weight a killer carries in his back and how many you have to carry to become one. Their decisions shape their future so perfectly, as the fall of one predicts the rise of another. The question is: Is he prepared to take his place in the world?
So the movie answer this question and gives us a bitter taste of what you have to do to get anywhere in life. You have to take a step, you need to be patient, you have to be in the right place at the right time, you need luck and them life might give you a shot. Once you get there, sometimes it might pop out another question: Is that what you are really looking for? All of this is given to you just with glances, stares and imagery. I'm happy to say, I like the way they carried out this.
I'll give it a 9/10, why? I really don't know because I was really into the characters, they can give you so much with bare silence. Maybe I was missing some CGI-action shooting? Who knows? A must see...
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
10/10, this movie is PURE GOLD!
I'm not a Kubrick fan, I didn't even watch all his movies, but I must say that he nailed it in this one.
The way he draw his arguments through his characters is just AMAZING. I mean you learn to identify the stereotypes and the problems that they will bring to the movie universe, but this don't spoil the fun in any way. I mean, you still want to watch what is going to come ahead and happens to be HILARIOUS.
OK, I wasn't LMAO and ROFL throughout the movie, but mentally I was just delighted which such finesse. I'm not going to spoil your fun, I don't even mean to get you disappointed with the movie just to drop you the "You just don't get it" line. But try to watch the movie and to put yourself in that time, it's like playing Russian roulete with a nuclear bomb revolver. The destiny of the entire world changes between hands constantly, by the way, in the hands of the most funny human people we can find and it relies on the most "out of this world" conversations you could imagine. You'll go crazy when the doomsday is about to happen because a military cannot find change to make a telephone call. This movie portrays the military powers in its comic facet. It's is just insanity to put such powers in the hands of anyone in the world, still we have many nations who could just destroy the planet if they want to. It means that the doomsday has the same probability to happen as a car crash.
When Petter Sellers is explaining his plans to keep the human species alive in case of a doomsday, you just can't help yourself but to put a smile in your face. The way he says "MY FUHRER!" with his uncontrollable nazi hand is just PURE GOLD and he keeps going with it.
I'll give it a 10/10 cause I was reluctant to watch it due to its age, still when I saw the credits I just realised what piece of jewellery I had right before my eyes.
SPOILER QUOTE: "Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"