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Leave the World Behind (2023)
An absolute waste of time
I don't think I've seen anything that comes anywhere close to the absolute disappointment that I felt at the end of the 2.5 hours of my time wasted on this. At the end of the "movie", you'll still be hanging as to what this whole thing was about, or what the point of the script was. It's basically nothing more than a bunch of total crap put together by a hallucinating failure of a mind. If this is the direction that Netflix is headed in, their doom is pretty near; I guess that's the only thing we can make sense of this so-called movie. What has the world come to, really? Whoever wrote this script should be expelled from their job is all...
Advokatas (2020)
Fairytale solutions to real-life disasters
I admit there's always some sort of cultural disconnect when watching a foreign movie, but something about this movie felt so wrong.
A lot of redundancy and incoherent characters only help worsen the story that already suffers from the writer plague of finding a solution to a problem that millions of people are struggling with. The dialogues are meant to go deep but just fall very short of achieving that purpose and instead sound unnatural and broken, and the director seems to have a very superficial approach to storytelling that highlights every other issue.
I'm sorry to say it felt like a drag at points where I had to skip some scenes, so overall, just a mediocre watching experience. Such a shame of wasted potential.
Israfil (2017)
An unremarkable adaptation of a novel
To me, this is a failed adaptation of Naomi Alderman's novel: Disobedience!
Since I saw both movies over a short span of time, so comparison was inevitable.
Trying hard to make this a possibility in the current atmosphere of Iran, the plot seems to have lost the major essence of the original story. Successfully going from lesbian love in the Jewish faith to heterosexual love in a Muslim context, especially one with the unfair limitations imposed by the Iranian government, takes a lot of writing and directing skills. I think Ida Panahandeh has a long way to go before she's there, but still, this is an admirable start...