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The Ring (2002)

8/10

18 April 2024

I remember not giving credit to this movie when I saw a bit on TV, just after it was released. It was better like this because today I'm a journalist and it is nice how the main character was introduced dealing with her boss. I tought it would be trough the story but, in a good pace, it turns all about the investigation on the tape.

In early 2000's, VHS and landlines were more used and a journalist still make research in newspaper and when she searched in the web, it was very slow. How it seems strange only two decades later?

It is very creative that the 'ring' is of the phone, in the image of the cover, look like a ring for finger, but actually is a water well closing.

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Toy Story (1995)

10/10

Played as a child, watched as an adult

22 April 2023

I had neven seen the movie but used to play Toy Story for N64 with my sister. Today I saw it with her daughter.

Very nice how "come in Star Command... Star Command" and "to infinity and beyond" went to my brain to remember that time. Also I think all Andy's toys are on the game. Even the head with spider legs which help them in the movie I think appears there.

And guess what? Buzz can not fly, but he do fall with style with his 'wings' opened. Good times from childhood.

I liked the story and the details of scenes are very well depicted . Animation gets the attention of children but are made to relate to many adults issues.

In few days I'm going to watch Mario Bros which is in theaters. With my sister because it is another one we played in N64 (I think the first Mario 3D).

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Cabeça de Nêgo (2020)

9/10

typical of the Brazilian public structure

29 June 2022

Warning: Spoilers

There is no money for proper food, pest control, textbooks for students but the school's conservative principal - who wants to expel a student for using his voice - has a very new car. It is very simbolic that the car was turned upside down inside the school after a clash with the repressive force.

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X (II) (2022)

10/10

The fact of the truth of the matter is

28 May 2022

Warning: Spoilers

That this movie brings a good point to how confusing can be to have sex for make a living and to date for real with someone at the same time. Lorraine was't necessarily someone who stares everyone. Since the beginning she was observing how people who make porn relate to each other, just like 'how can they be normal?', so her voyeur side was activated live and she had sure they are... 'normal' as herself.

Also to the point that it is easier when you are taping and having fun in the background when it is not your girlfriend which never did it. Not everyone is capable of that. It can make you change from cheerful to want to abandon.

Lorraine saw freedom, even more when the actors talked about their vision of sexuality.

Regarding to the story, it has a great cinematography (what a beautiful place with the pond) and is original. The guts, gore, corpses effects are in shape! And at the end: life beats death, and keep taking the risk of coke.

I used to have Horror as a favorite but there are too many bad movies. Probably the genre with more repetitive subjects.

If this world last, for me it will be a classical.

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A Wolf at the Door (2013)

7/10

Linguistically accurate

21 May 2022

I study Communication Science and the body language, the way of speaking the slangs of the woman who make the call at the bar is very well represented, specifically from Zona Norte region in Rio de Janeiro, which is where the movie took place.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

10/10

madness of a masterpiece

12 December 2021

Among war movies, this is not one of the best with battle scenes, that's not the idea, but it is the best about military state of mind, officers' ego, difference between military codes of western and eastern armies and how these codes can be used in the favor of an army which has prisoners.

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

5/10

Too comedian

27 October 2021

First time I went to a movie theater after coronavirus pandemic came out

I always liked the imagery of Venom, besides he is like an anti-hero. But it could be less comedian. The first is way better.

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Single White Female (1992)

7/10

psychological concept

16 May 2021

You can invite someone to your bedroom but you won't allow people open your drawers so easily.

At the beginning, Allison is caught in the tenant's room and apologizes embarassed saying it was less than two weeks and she was already in her room and almost opened drawers.

I dont mean that what happened in the story afterwards was because of that.

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Bacurau (2019)

10/10

hit the bull's eye

30 November 2020

The scene in which people of the village is warned that the mayor is coming (before, from a point that give time to do not take anyone by surprise) in order to hide and let him alone with his lies is far away from happen in reality but is exactly what should happen in all places in Brazil. Unfortunely, this kind of organization is utopical because of a corrupt culture in a general manner, mainly by politicians which are the worse in the corrupt scale and serves the elite. Thus, most people are uneducated and have a lot of problems to worry about instead of organizing to fight.

Another thing worth mention here: it shows how pathetic can be a latin which thinks be a pure white but it is nothing more than something to be used and thrown in the trash by their white 'equals'.

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Party Over (2019)

8/10

Simple and complex at the same time

9 October 2020

It is nice that there is no need to 'explain things' to be good... the kind of movie that plays with the imagination of the spectator and it will depend on spectator's unsterdanding about Brazil. It picture well some issues the country is facing right now with completely different types of characters saying that do not like to live or to be in it. The movie is very contemporany if you look the way technology is introduced, including a podcast which has a key role.

Even with cinema industry suffering attacks, it is possible to make art that at least try to break the status quo.

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The Man in the Iron Mask (I) (1998)

6/10

Incompatible language

25 August 2020

Why a movie about a king of France would be in English which is the language of a historic rival country?

Anyways the story is good - you can see and think a lot about values on it - and very well acted.

"I wear the mask, it does not wear me"!

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All That Divides Us (2017)

7/10

a matter of family

7 July 2019

Warning: Spoilers

Besides the "romance" cliche of a rich girl in love for a bandit, the point to me is the class struggle. Cause when Ben is confronted blackmailing Louise, he says that is doing it, cause he could (knowing about the murder) and that she must knows how does it feel to do things cause you can (with power of money) including the example of how her husband treated him as an employee. And also because when you have this kind of power, you know people inside the social structures, so if you know someone in the police (as she do) it is easier to "fix" things with the "justice".

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Operações Especiais (2015)

9/10

More sociological than action

30 April 2016

Warning: Spoilers

It worth and prove me more that cinema in Brazil is improving in the 21th century. Same level of Cidade de Deus and Tropa de Elite (I mean the first from 2007)

Despite not like the action scenes at the beginning it is a very good movie which show many problems in Brazilian society. Just like be an honest police officer (or not), honest citizen (or not), and mainly an honest politician (or not) and it does in a very critical way.

Also is about the issues a woman can face joining a police department being the only woman among men.

The main actors are very talented (know their works) and the actions scenes get better as time goes by.

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