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Metastaze (2009)
A mirror society doesn't look pretty in
"Metastaze" is a story of four deeply troubled friends. Through them this movie explicitly shows some of the biggest problems in modern day society. Domestic violence, drug abuse and trafficking, ethnocentrism, and so on.
The film is beautiful in its brutality. The scenes are raw and the screenplay is simple. There is no knowitall badass character, no philosophy and no bulls*it. It's the world as it is. People thoroughly perplexed. Incurable.
After the war everyone is still fully focused on the conflicts that did not resolve and oblivious towards other aspects of life. Everyone is determined to keep hate alive. The seed of violence is sown. Deeprooted within.
Some see refuge in drugs and alcohol while others in beating the crap out of their wife. Each his own, right?
The characters are tragic. The point? Futility. Everyone f*cks up. You can only rely on yourself and even then you f*ck up even more. The second law of thermodynamics holds true. Ultimately everything really does go from bad to worse.
God's Not Dead (2014)
Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing
The film is about a Christian kid (obviously) debating a sophisticated (he's an expert on wine), arrogant ("There is a god and I'm him") and downright evil (he's an atheist) philosophy professor on the existence of god.
It starts with the kid signing up for courses. One being Philosophy 150. The clairvoyant guy signing him up immediately spots the cross on his chest in a very sherlock holmesey fashion and warns him about the horrors a choir boy like him might face in the pit of the anti-theistic snake that is the movie's villain.
The scene ends with some mockery of the fact that China is a "people's" republic and not God's - like America. Pretty random, I know. But it gets much worse.
The class starts and the professor introduces it by naming a few atheists and explaining what atheism is. How else could he have introduced it? He continues the lecture with a very profound explanation of Nietzche's notorious quote - "god is dead". Apparently it's a metaphor. For god not existing. Like, ever. These writers really are a funny bunch. He then makes everyone write down the famous quote on a piece of paper and sign it. Our hero proudly refuses to deny the all-powerful and says something along the lines of "f**k off". Prof totally freaks out, humiliates him in front of the whole class and challenges him to a debate.
A lot of other s**t then happens that mostly makes you wanna gouge out your own eyes with a tea-spoon. The characters have no depth and don't evolve at all. They show atheists as extremely insensitive, narcissistic psychopaths without empathy or regard for anything other than their own temporary pleasure. They don't give a f**k. And why would they? No god no morals, right?
They also randomly throw in a few very offensive scenes without any storyline, argument or premise whatsoever. A stereotypical muslim father beating the s**t out of his daughter for listening to some christian prayers on her iPod for example. They could have just played an ISIS beheading video instead.
In the end the kid wins the argument by forcing the professor to admit that he actually hates god thus showing his anti-theism is in fact just a defense mechanism from a childhood trauma. So there really are no true atheists. There are only sad, pathetic cynics who overcompensate by being bitter and cruel to their loved ones.
If you think you are an atheist go to the nearest church and get baptized as soon as worldly possible. Because you're getting run over by a car soon. That or cancer. But by then it will be too late. You are going to be alone in your despair. Crying like a pussy you are. So do the right thing; blast some christian pop and be safe not sorry. That is unless you want to end up in hell. In which case you can just go see this movie.