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All the Light We Cannot See (2023)
Not a great attempt
A promising story and good actors should provide for a good quality series. However, there were so many things distracting me that I missed this in large parts of the series. The use of different accents (British English, American English and English with a German accent) is confusing for me as a Dutchman and would have rather seen this as a bilingual movie in French and German. The relationship aspects are amplified to American unnatural proportions with a lot of overdone emotional acting. The science part of the story hardly gets any attention other then being mentioned in a few sentences. Could have been so much better.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Brilliant visual interpretation of the book
I read George Orwell's 1984 in 1984; I was 15 at the time. Then watched the film, also because I am a big Eurythmics fan. The album 1984 is still one of my Eurythmics favourites. I'm sure I wasn't able to understand its meaning fully, but the book and film made a lasting impression about a grim future that in my young eyes needed to be avoided at all cost.
I rewatched the film now, almost 40 years later and I feel it stands the test of time in so many ways, and is still very relevant today.
The film is not an easy watch and I would not watch it when you're in the wrong mood. However it is brilliantly made. One can see the dedication of the production team to bring to life the world of Big Brother as best as Orwell had created it. The acting is outstanding and I still play the Eurythmics soundtrack.
Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
More a document than a movie
I agree with the previous writers on all complaints about this movie. Apparently the owner of Continental Baths decides to make a movie about his just opened establishment in 1975. The script is very thin, the acting is pretty bad at times and the shots even worse. However, given that the movie was made in 1975 at a venue where very little film material is probably available I do think it is worth watching. Don't watch it because of the script, acting or quality of the movie itself. If you watch as a document of a phenomenon of that time in a dramatized way I think it makes much more sense. The movie can be found on YouTube now.