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Reviews
Machine (2007)
Twisty!
The plot is like one of those mouse mazes where you know you will get to the end, but you aren't sure how many turns it will take to get there, or if there will be any cheese on the way out. Others comment on the grain of the film...um. yea. who cares? Its the plot that counts, and I think this had a straight forward plot with enough subplots to make it that maze that keeps us interested. Well, it worked for me anyways. I definitely have to disagree with the rating it has, as there are terrible movies with at least a 4 rating and this one should be a 6 at least! If you like murder and criminals all wrapped up in a plot that twists like a ball of yarn the cat played with, well this is worth a watch.
Karla (2006)
A View Into The Mind of a Narcissistic Psychopath
Karla is an interesting portrait of someone who lacks empathy. Events which normally would have dire emotional consequences for most people have little if any effect for a narcissist, and this movie portrays how someone can do and continue to do horrible things to others without really feeling much sorrow about it. For these people, they can feel emotion very strongly, but only if directly related to themselves. Karla makes half-hearted attempts to appear sincerely apologetic to psychiatrist about the goings on of her past...she knows what she did was wrong...but the sincere heart-wrending sorrow that someone should feel when truly repenting for horrible crimes is missing in this girl. The average viewer of this movie will be amazed, asking, "how can she do that" because they simply cannot understand what it is like to just not really care about another human unless you have shared a lot with that person...and even then, the pain of losing them is fairly minor and not life-changing. As one of those narcissistic people, i would say this movie is astonishingly accurate in that portrayal that shows the strong sadness and passion a person may feel while not feeling at all for others in general. The crimes are terrible, and acted out in such a day-to-day non-dramatic manner that it's as "real as you can get". Despite a few tiny technical spots where one might ask, "would that have really happened at this point", i would say this movie is wholly realistic and disturbing as such...and even more disturbing if we can look into ourselves and see a little bit more insight; a little bit of Karla.