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9/10
mesmerizing visuals with thriller
11 February 2017
The second film from designer turned directory Tom Ford was not just a visual masterpiece but had great narrative. The plot of the movie which is three narratives combined into one and tells the story of Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) an art gallery owner who receives a manuscript of her ex-husband's (Jake Gyllenhaal) thriller novel dedicated to her. The way that the story was told was bold, strange and very unique to me. Even though a movie with three narratives might sound clumsy but it wasn't, the stories of different time lines did not overlap each other rather it made the story complete with showing different aspects of the characters.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson's performance as Ray Marcus was definitely my favorite, he was so creep and repulsive to watch. The brilliant Michael Shannon was also in this movie as Bobby Andes with great Oscar worthy performance. Overall, I loved this movie for it's visual look and appeal of it's leading characters. While I was watching the movie I liked Tom Ford's directing style, storytelling, cinematography and after watching it I started to think about it while connecting the dots between the different narratives and it easily became my favorite movie to think about. If you really like movies that makes you think and eventually re-watch them over again then this movie is for you.
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Legion (2017–2019)
8/10
finally something good came from the fox marvel universe
10 February 2017
Legion based on marvel x-men franchise and brought to the TV screens by award wining writer for Fargo, Noah Hawley.

Honestly, the only reason I watched Legion is because of the x men title and didn't expect much action or any kind of superhero-ism based on the trailers. Rather it is just based on a schizophrenic young man David and how he starts discovering that he has powers. The show had some Stanley Kubrick's's A Clockwork Orange vibes due to it's late 60s and early 70s production design. For being the first episode of a series it was very edgy with great color palette and beautiful effects. Throughout the episode there are continuous changes in timeline but it isn't hard to keep up since the whole show is executed properly. Aubrey Plaza's performance as Lenny standed out the most for me. She was just so weird and fun to watch. I'm definitely looking forward to watching more Legion.
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