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Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Half-eye-opener for those who believe mainstream media
This is greatly edited and produced video. A pleasure to watch and a great piece of art. There are several fascinating stories going through the movie deserving further research by viewers. Soundtrack is amazing too.
There are couple of things that put me off though:
The documentary sets kind of demotivating mood: everything is in vain, whatever you do is pointless. Thus comforting viewers into status quo.
Secondly, even though it looks like Adam criticizes common western narrative he still goes along: he mentions Navalny as just sort of a hero Putin's opponent, without digging into his roots as a nationalist who once compared Islamic fundamentalists to cockroaches in his pro-gun ownership video. Also, author criticizes the politicians in power for failing to do anything for poor people as though they really try to do anything except for pretending.
Also it's puzzling how Adam Curtis managed to cover war crimes and mass surveillance without ever mentioning Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
Thus 7 of 10.
Leviafan (2014)
Russia is not like that!
I have mixed feelings about this movie. From one point of view it's a rather beautifully shot drama about one man's fight against evil system. There are many fantastic shots, good actors, camera angles etc., etc.
On the other hand, modern Russia is shown as hell on Earth, populated by heavy drinking stereotypical half human half animals. There's no single positive character in this movie. Please don't believe this, it's propaganda. We, Russians, are much the same as you. Frankly speaking, the fact that many people throughout the world will see such portrait of Russia makes me feel uncomfortable.
We don't drink vodka like that. We don't betray our friends and loved ones.And we're not that rude and dirty. Thank you for reading this.
And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
And now for something without canned laughter
Apart from the fact that it's great introduction to works of the famous British comedy sketch group for a newbee, I want to stress that it lacks canned laughter and even this fact deserves ten out of ten vote. Many famous sketches are there (Parrot sketch is included) some of them are shortened, some of them a little bit different, but it's the best way to introduce a new comer to "Monty Python's flying Circus". To hardcore Python fans the movie can have somewhat less value, but worth watching nonetheless. Sketches here have different from TV show links between each other, some accents are stressed in a different way somehow.
Summary: 10/10 for lack of canned laughter.