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Le secret (1974)
Badly Overlooked Movie
Abolish the machine!
The classic slogan that still works.
A Deleuezian concept on machine and its surveillance emerges at final seconds. We've upgraded it to a so called matrix. This slow paced drama is about nothing and everything. Timeless and placeless story. Still works. Great performances and a heart catching score by maestro Morricone.
A melancholic journey to deep desperation.
Back Roads (2018)
A Serious Movie
At first the only reason that I watched this movie was Adrian Lyne as its scriptwriter. Fortunately I was right. It was a deep diving psychological drama with complicated sexual theme as we expected from Lyne. The interesting point is I watched this some days after watching Lyne's Deep Water which I liked too too regardless some apparent plot holes. The way Lyne sees the human beings attracts me. I don't take his works as shallow erotic films. He really invites us to think more deeply about neglected sexual aspects of our lives. From Fatal attraction to Unfaithful all I see is about how sexual vibes can lead the calmness of life to a fatal catastrophe as he shows repeatedly by his works. I found Back Roads a decent movie with great mind provoking content. Beside good actings the camera work is great,vdelivering smooth artistic compositions which are brilliantly matched with the essence of each scene. This film deserves much higher attention and rating.
Clickbait (2021)
Enjoyable mystery drama
Well written script with an interesting pattern focusing each episode on one character. A very touching ending that is so sad instead of being shocking. Netflix as usual has imposed his unnecessary Propaganda's elements all over this product but you can ignore this annoying aspect and enjoy a really mind provoking drama. I am a big fan of crime mystery movies and you can trust me in this regard.
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
NWO
Full of illuminati stuff, praising socialism, communism and even North Korea in occasions, Nothing unexpected from Netflix. The script is full of flaws and characters are raw and empty so badly. Good idea in general but another attempt by brainwashing machine of globalists to prepare everyone for apocalyptic New World order. A real embarrassment for south Korea by China-owned Netflix.
Fractured (2019)
Netflix Rules
This could be a brilliant and shocking movie about a horrible real thing we deal with nowadays called human trafficking. And it is so up to near the end until in a "progressive" turn/twist which is expectable from Netflix the story falls into condemning conspiracy delusion: "Everything is fine. You must reconsider your mental health dear sickos!"
Ok. Fractured is a really exciting film with a great amount of suspense. Who cares to the reality? It's just a movie and a thrilling one.
Shahsiyet (2018)
Real Surprise
It was brilliant and deeply touching. I am not Turk and I hate satellite's turkish series considering them as total disasters regarding script, acting and directing but Persona was totally different. Very complicated and affective crime story with highly smart engineering for each part of the whole, real thrilling moments, nice sense of humor, well paced and beyond them all fantastic acting by who played main character. Unbelievable! I got surprised with his really great performance. One of the best series and even movies I have watched ever and for your information I have watched much more than a lot because I am a film critic and film maker. Dont miss this gem. Wow.
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
More important things of life
At the first sight "Polanski: wanted and desired" has been made to reread a special event of this great filmmaker's life but on the other hand pretexts Polanski's judiciary story to review his life and also his works. In addition to reportage aspects, this doc has many features of a portrait documentary, getting back the survey in time to identify roots of Polanski's childhood and his family. In this way, the director Marina Zenovich even goes back to amateur short films of Polanski. "Polanski
" exposes repeatedly mentioned but still attractive and important "moral judgment" as a basic element. It's about concealed corners of an apparently transparent event and shows how time passing washes out the dusts from the surface. Exploring hidden aspects, gives an opportunity for a new judgment but I think the most important aspect of this doc is about individuality, and the reality of an artist, With his all merits, defects, vulnerabilities and fragility without any resemblance to immortal mythic heroes or legends Sometimes these events leak in the artist's works and sometimes the creatures of an artist's mind mystically presage future events. For example the plot of "Fat and thin", a B&W short film by Polanski (1961), in which he is such a slave that ridiculously dances by the Master's drumming, reappearances later like a horrific nightmare in his real life, at the height of his fame and he is trifled by a tedious judiciary process. He dances passively, with drums' beats. "Polanski
" uses magic and brilliant score of "Rosemary's baby" (a masterpiece composed by Krzysztof Komeda for this Polanski's masterwork) for the opening of Polanski's cinematic portrait; not an original idea but still impressive. Surprisingly precise similarity between Rosemary Woodhouse and Roman Polanski and also their matching loneliness are enigmatic. Why that ghastly sad lullaby of Rosemary is considered as a symbol of Polanski? In "Kid stays in the picture" (2002), a brilliant doc about Robert Evans, legendary Hollywood producer and former paramount's man; we see how he became familiar with Polanski & picked him for directing "Rosemary's baby" against company's hesitation. We also hear Mia Farrow's sad lullaby there when Polanski appears in archival footages. Polanski in one of his brightest works, "tenant" (1976), which "Polanski: wanted
" refers to it many times, goes down into the role of Trelkovsky, a Polish who was born in France and a citizen of that country. During judicial affair, court emphasizes on proving neurosis and personality disorder in Polanski. It's a short but destroyer season in his life, though they got no medical evidence to prove mental disorders but make a horrible time for him during custody. Surprisingly, chaos and neurosis are of his most favorite artistic motives either before 1977 (court time) or after that. In "Tenant", a key work for Polanski and an important movie for analysis, Trelkovsky (played by Polanski) gradually transforms to another person, and experiences several kinds of psychological instability. In spite of several references to "Tenant" in regard to meaningful presence of Polanski in the role of cursed Trelkovsky, there are no specific explanations about it in Zenovich's documentary. Polanski makes a self-disclosing presence in "Tenant" that filmed a few years after brutal murder of his wife Sharon Tate, just two weeks before time she was supposed to deliver her newborn. In "tenant", Polanski/Trelkovsky is a victim in the clutch of anthropoid demons. Polanski's reaction to the news of his wife's murder includes several archival footages, some pictures and a narration by one of his friends, showing horrible and devastating effect of that event on him impressively. Even in these limited images we can see sudden breaking and painful collapse. Despite all these, great disaster of his life was just on the way. Just a year after the hell of Trelkovsky a horrid event knocked Polanski down, and he never could stand up of that ever today. The importance of "Tenant" does not end here. Humiliation against Trelkovsky's polish and Jewish root that we see in this movie in interrogation sequence at the police station represents racist and scornful behavior Polanski experienced in America. This border-less humiliation even let American media ridicule his appearance and of course these were the same media had honored him before. Marshal McLuhan, great theorist of media, named such media as "Light bulb" that lack content (light) on their own. At least in a section of the time Polanski was a great catch of the media and this story has been common for some others during decades. "Polanski: wanted and desired" opens with an old footage of an apparently intimate interview in a high grade restaurant and shows Polanski describing his masterwork," China town" (1974). Near the end of this documentary, after reviewing the ups and downs detailed his life, we come back again to the same interview at the restaurant, where Polanski still is fresh and not old yet. At this time, he has escaped the nightmare of United States and has no intention to return. He stares at interviewer, while he is bored of repetitive questions. Polanski's Word in reaction to the content of this conversation makes us face a bitter truth. Before citing that word, better we can have a flash back to the beginning of this article and the question of art: What relation is between a chaotic soul of an artist and the approach which tries to pretend art as a transcendental thing and artist as an innocent human. "Polanski
", Once again exposes this truth that an artist is as well as other persons. She/he is not necessarily strong, pure or devoid of defects and weakness. Perhaps distinction of an artist relates to the ways he sublimates shortcomings into creation of art, to an exalted position. Sublimation is a defensive mechanism against external harms. Polanski escaped America because His languid body and soul could not sit down under punishment, he fled to survive and to add some other masterpieces to the world of cinema.(Summary of a long article by myself)
Griffin and Phoenix (1976)
My old friend who eventually died
When I was an 8 years old boy, owning video set was forbidden in my cursed country, Iran. Those days we were at eight years war with Iraq. In such bad situation, old movies on Betamax video tapes were our family's only fun whereas that was so risky due to country's law .You would have been arrested if it was proved that you have videotapes at home. My father was MD and one of his clients used to rent tapes although illegally. I watched so many great movies, mostly classics, in this way in that time. One of most memorable movies among them was "Griffin & Phoenix: A love story". It was a dubbed version & Its Persian title was "The kite" apparently because of emphasized presence of that motif in the storyline. This name had remained on this movie since before Iranian revoloution in 1979. After I saw the movie; I was stuck into that although I was so little. I watched that Betamax tape over & over again in the next years. Oh my god! It was amazing! The film's impact on me sustained so. I don't know anything about my childish reaction to this movie but now, I certainly can say It's brilliant, a film in the mood of 70s nihilistic cinema with anarchistic characteristics. This movie just made after a highly admired movie, "Love story" by Arthur Hiller, and after that Swedish director, Roy Anderson, Had made his own version of love story in the title of "A Swedish love story". "Griffin & Phoenix: A love story" is a deconstructive adaptation of love story, having less sentiment & added some intelligence with a mentored attitude toward the life. The message is straight: Nothing will be remaining from human except those moments spent on delight and love. I don't believe in an outside realm. All we can get is in this life although all the things have to be faded away gradually, Likewise me, likewise my Betamax videotapes. Unfortunately I have no longer a version of my lovely favorite movie. Sad but true.
Hamoun (1990)
sacrificing daddy
I'm an Iranian MD. I saw this movie when I was teenager. It was the first and the last time I went to cinema with my father. My father hate cinema and any cultural act but ever now I couldn't understand why he took me and my little brother to this movie when we were too young and knew nothing about cinema. Now I adore my daddy for this sacrifice. This movie changed my life and addicted me to cinema. Hamoun is a story about lost love and disordered intellectuality leading mind deconstruction and disorientation in life way; A criticism about challenge between eastern belief and western objectivity.An internal battle that destroys traditional minds but with their possessor too. Hamoun refers to a religious story about Abraham & sacrificing his son Ismael(Samuel). My special thanks to my father who did sacrificed himself not his son(me).