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El hilo rojo (2016)
A honest realistic anti-pop love film
This is definitely a title that deserves a second go from any reviewer who was on a bad day. The film is definitely a honest, realistic and anti-pop script on unfulfilled love and unmet opportunities that fate will endeavour to correspond and correct, regardless of one's utter/innermost intentions. One of the most amazing things I tasted on this film is the fact that I simply dislike love films, with their pop-culture of dreamy realisations and commitments. This one is truthful to the very bone of what life is, there is no sanding of sharp edges, it will hurt the viewer and the characters as much as one's expectations that everything must be happiness. The movie covers very well how certain decisions in life or an inevitability can undermine years of experiences that simply won't take place. Thus, happiness or the possibility of more, purer or different happiness must be reassessed and played against what life juggled at us. Does life deserve to be re-imagined against all aspects that offer one stability and moral standards? This is the decision we all debate through the film itself.
Some people might not like Eugenia "China" Suarez as a person but the way she conducts the character's progression and response to the other actor, Benjamin (also incredibly good), made me stop criticising astonishingly beautiful women who play love parts. She suffers like I'd see any person suffer, he believes to the very last moment like I see any other person willing to believe. The movie is very honest and very good.
Drunk Wedding (2015)
Extremely underrated by the IMDB pseudo-intelectual reviewrs
This movie is fresh, different and extremely funny. It has been a long time the typical popcorn movies and the most hype titles did nothing for my laughter. This one antagonises all the preconceptions people bring to this style of filming. The plot is actually very realistic and extremely funny at the same time, nothing is exaggerated as most of these things most of us, who have interesting lives, saw happening or heard of in our circle of friends. Give the movie a chance and just absorb.e the beauty of those normal gals rather than the super worked Hollywood stars, the day-to-day banter between couples and the dramas people face when in relationships or running from these.
Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)
This is not authentic but a collector's item
I saw this documentary for what it is. A documentary. I wasn't trying to find evidence of anything or validation of whatsoever. I lived my teens with Nirvana for the better and for the worse. Many times for the worse. This documentary is not proof of talent, it's not proof of drama per se, it's not proof of anything but a good montage of Kurt's personal and private contribution to the analysis of his own pitfall.
Why I rated it 7? I knew already all that was reported in this documentary, but some stuff from his own hand made me go back in time. Travel through the mist of memory.
This is not authentic but a collector's item because, and just because, people love collecting stuff. For the remedy of these new teenagers who didn't know Kurt's personal drama, here it is the 257th version of what we all know so far, i.e., a broken family triggers a broken personality, a society living off of prejudices creates an unbearable experience for empathetic kids, drugs are a false remedy and kill you (not eventually - but always). There are many ways of dying, and this is just another one, hereby portrayed in his persona with Montage of Heck. Listen to his music rather than watching drama documentaries, it will do you better.
The After (2014)
This one has ingredients but no sauce
How many times have we seen TV series like this showing up, blooming and fading away for this or that reason. Some of them far better than this pilot, e.g., Flashforward, Day Break, and Lost (a tremendously good series with a ludicrous last episode). This one has ingredients but no sauce. There are many little things that might get us connected to the characters but it's all so cliché in this kind of ramification that apart from very bored teenagers, I don't think anyone will actually waste time on a series where: 1) The chaos is poorly portrayed and usually rests in people moving randomly through the scenario; 2) The typical choice of characters is such a cliché that hurts; I mean, the criminal who is actually innocent and just wants to do good, the mum that is quite sexy and just wants to find her family, the drunken Irish (why is it always the Irish people that are portrayed us drunk people?), the police officer who sticks to the role regardless of the evident total loss of order, the fit chick, the old lady and the gay dude. Boriiiing! 3) But what actually kills me is the alien who got shot, nearly died, open his red eyes after minutes laying on the ground and waltz off just like the girl in the classic Exorcist.
For god's sake, stop it. I won't bite it.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
It's the Passion of the Christ for black people
On the movie: Tedious monotonous slow boring gore fest that could have been easily made into a great epic movie. All Solomon did after his release would be a much more fruitful script than the ridiculous non- substance matter discarded for hours... and I mean tedious heavy hours.
On Brad Pitt: Where did he come from? What was he doing there? It could be anybody else playing such role, even an empty bottle of water, but it was in fact more of a ridiculous fallacious cameo than a proper star acting quality.
On people who rated it over 4: It had loads of nothingness... I give you that, and nothingness is Hollywood's recent attitude towards success. I believe that when you walk the red carpet towards the Oscars, this movie will face a bipolar crowd as its best crowd possible.