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The Deuce (2017)
Absolutely brilliant, should've run longer.
Just like the wire you take the characters into your heart, its upsetting watching them self destruct and joyful when they succeed. Great acting, great story, great script. It could easily have run for another 2 seasons, it should have.
Although looking at the negative reviews there is now a large cohort of people who prefer not to know what the world was like and who should really just stick to the Disney channel.
For me the overarching theme of the show is back in the 70s/80s New York was a dirty sleazy hole but despite that people had honest human experiences, both good and bad. The very last episode very effectively contrasts this with the modern New York, an over sanitised tourist attraction with everyone living their life through a 5.5" screen. The point being, yes it's safer, yes it's cleaner, yes it's brighter & bigger but along the way to achieving that the city lost its humanity. A pyrrhic victory.
The Great Wall (2016)
Instantly forgettable poo-poo
Doesn't warrant a long review. Suffice to say; plot holes galore, back story is missing, clichéd, no script to speak of. If it wasn't so bad I'd assume it was an attempt to launder shady money off the Chinese mainland, as it is they must've lost a tonne of cash on this turkey. I don't know what possessed Willem Dafoe and Matt Damon to participate, hopefully a great upfront payday.
The Red Pill (2016)
Thought-provoking, alarming in parts, perhaps biased but worth watching.
This documentary gave a very shocking slant on modern gender politics in the USA and across the world. However, I felt that it appeared to be biased in the choice of interviewees, it seemed to pick the most rational and clearheaded MRA spokesmen but the feminists interviewed were without exception presented as utterly insane, selective editing? Surely this can't be a representative sample of modern feminism? A good follow-on would be a documentary on the commercialisation/professionalisation of feminism which was picked up on but not explored. Despite the slant towards mens rights this documentary would also be of interest to those concerned about media manipulation as it explored several stories that had been picked up by MSM and twisted beyond all recognition to fit a popular narrative.