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Oxygen (2021)
5/10
Pretty to look at, but nothing interesting being told
12 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I just got my first vaccination and felt sickly afterwards, so I decided to watch a movie that won't be too demanding for my brain cells. I didn't expect much and that was delivered, great choice on my part.

Besides being visually impressive and containing a great actress the movie won't give you much. It will end and you will raise one of your eyebrows or chuckle a little bit or even feel annoyed afterwards.

Many things were kind of expected in this movie, but I don't blame the authors, I just watched a lot of stuff and you know how it goes.

But now really people have to help me out:

So there is this virus that will kill all humans within 2 generations on earth. And we have a technology to build human clones and put all the original memories inside of them. Why on earth would you need to colonize a new planet then? You could just build a secure place on earth with lots of clones that will wake up after say 50 years of human extinction and live on the amazing planet that is still available, while the virus will be dead since all humans are dead (herd immunity also works when no hosts are alive anymore). Not only is that much easier, but will also have a higher chance of success.

So well, I don't feel much better, but some time has passed.
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Mapa (2020–2023)
9/10
Fantastic emotional mini series
10 May 2021
I just watched all 6 episodes of this series via ARD/ZDF mediathek (a free and public streaming service here in Germany) and was stunned by how unexpectedly good the show is. I usually don't enjoy German shows just because of the bad acting and uninteresting plots (there are exceptions of course) - I am German by the way.

And this is a big exception for me. The acting was really great, the characters unique and both lovable and questionable at the same time, like most of us probably are.

Besided the sad and melancholic undertone the show has hilarious dialogues and scenes which made me laugh quite often (doesn't happen with many other things I watch), sometimes the absurd humor reminded me of "Herr Lehmann" and its characters.

The Berlin setting just added more flavor for me, since that's also the place where I personally live.

It's a little show that you will still feel inside you after it is over. Hopefully in the bittersweet and funny way it is told.
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