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Heartstopper (2022)
I cried through half of the episodes
Mostly tears of joy. This series is so relatable. It cought me and made me feel with the incredibly well portrayed characters. And the soundtrack is absolutely amazing. Upbeat and energizing. I wish I had had a teenage life like this.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
What an annoying main character
The Johnny character was so overdone. Hard to watch. The other films had an age rating of 6, this one of 0. And your feel it when you watch the film. It seems to be targeted more at little children and is very hard to watch for an adult. Very infantile.
After Earth (2013)
Unbelievable story meets unrelatable characters
Gosh was this boring. The story is so flawed, I don't know where to begin with. It has been written in other comments. Nothing makes sense in this plot.
Also, I could not relate to the characters. The father is such a military weirdo who treats his own son like a cadet. No empathy at all. And the son's struggle for the father's love - I don't buy it. The father accusing the sun for not saving his sister - that would have been suicide. All the relationships are just toxic and purely not relatable.
I would have given it one star if there wasn't great set design with innovative habitats and spaceship interior. That's the only thing I liked about this movie.
Deutscher (2020)
Great psychological study on things going bad
Compressed story about what would go wrong if the Germans vote right again. The little microcosmos of two families living door to door gets shook up. Excellent play by the actors. Great script. Very good set design showing a neighborhood that couldn't be more German. Mind blowing sound track. A little gem.
The only thing I would criticize is that everything revolves around white Germans. They are portrayed much deeper than the non-white Germans.
Entrée du personnel (2011)
Where does your meat come from?
An unfiltered insight into the hardship of an industrial slaughterhouse. Surrounded by death and stress, people get sick. How can society tolerate this?
Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life (2018)
Hard to watch, brutal insight into the life of a porn star
As an empathetic viewer, I really had trouble watching this film. To me, it was too intimate a portrait of the state of a broken family. I wonder how the family members could agree to make their disaster public in such an exhibitionistic way.
We see a broken porn actor who has daddy issues (an absent and non-caring dad) and mummy issues (being very close to his mum, almost as a substitute husband). As a very sensitive and fragile person, he gets ground by the porn industry. Not being able to cope with the hardships of such a job, he flees into drugs. On the other hand, he is very outgoing, challenging his peers and employers with extravaganza and exaltation, leading to continuous rejection. This leads him to get drugged out when facing emotional challenges. We see him drugged in infantile states, sobbing, babbling and not able to walk.
In my very humble opinion, the innermost family business and the innermost emotional abysses of a human being should not be made public in such a brutal way. It would be bearable if this was a story, but not the real life or a real human being. The film makers lack sensitivity here, failing to protect this family and the main person of the film from totally exposing themselves in such an undignified way.
The Island (2005)
The scariest movie I have seen in the last 20 years
Fist of all: I think this film is a definite MUST SEE for everyone.
What scares the hell out of me, is the fact that the cloning story in this film is only a little bit off reality. Of course, clones that have the original's memories are pure fantasy, the same goes for the fast development of the clones that grow extremely fast.
But it is an extremely attractive business case to e.g. clone a 60 year old wealthy human being and raise the clone baby in a secret place. By the time, the original has become 80 and needs replacement organs, the clone would be adult and could serve as a "spare part" repository. The idea is disgusting and immoral, however, people strive for prolonged life, and I could imagine they would sell their soul to achieve this.
The really ugly part of the film is that the bio tech businessmen tell their customers, the clones are not "alive" meaning conscious. They just believe - how should they be able to verify it. So what to do when in 50 years, services like this will be a serious business? Is it acceptable to raise clones when they are not conscious? Is it acceptable to make them unconscious by destroying their brain in the fetal state? Is it OK to destroy it "half" so that the lower functions of the brain are still there? Ugly questions, questioning humanity itself. However, I am sure that - for big money - people will do this if states do not strictly control cloning.
My only relief is that such cloning business is very probable to fail, because the DNA of clones has shortened telomers (the ends of genes). This means that the clone is (from a molecular biology perspective) as old as the original (even when it looks like a child). Let's hope science does not solve this problem too fast, so that we are not faced with the above questions.
Yours, Patrik
PS: No, I'm neither conservative nor religious. Just scared. :-|
Wie die Karnickel (2002)
The best film based on Ralf König' comics so far
Yesterday, I saw this film. I didn't know anything about it before and was surprised how light-hearted and charming it is, just like the comic books from Ralf König, a famous German comic author. Unlike other films based on Ralf König's comics (Der bewegte Mann, Kondom des Grauens), this film transports all the spirit you feel when reading the comics. I laughed from the first minute to the last. The humour is partly subtle and partly very obvious. The film sure has a layer that can only be understood by a German gay man but is nevertheless thrilling to watch for everybody.
It is for sure one of the best German comedies I saw for a long time.
Mrs Schneider gives an outstanding performance as a Russian Opera Diva, including her famous "Bulgarian" accent - so be sure to see the original version in German.