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The Dry (2020)
Outstanding Aussie drama
Beautifully shot and well-paced. Ultimately it's very dark subject matter and so not an uplifting story. But definitely worth a watch. Best on the big cinema screen!
The Midnight Sky (2020)
Disappointing
I really wanted to enjoy this film so I don't criticise it out of prejudice. The problems are:
- predictable - from the start you have a fair idea where it's headed, and it goes there.
- simplistic - there isn't enough detail to make the revealing of the story interesting.
- unrealistic - the premise as well as the key plot points don't make a lot of sense in relation to how you'd expect real people to react.
- dull - there just aren't enough interesting plot turns nor action nor suspenseful scenes to make it worthwhile.
Hunter Hunter (2020)
Hard to watch!
Just finished this and I'm disturbed. It was kinda not what I was expecting but also much more. I won't go into detail as you just have to see it. No idea what rating out of 10 so I just went with the average. Disturbing.
Sputnik (2020)
A tale of Freudian Oedipal complex - Spoilers!
So here's a possible reading of the film. It's all a metaphor for a man escaping from the hold the Oedipal Complex (obsessive love of mother) has over his mind. Excuse some of the misogynistic themes ahead. I didn't make the film, I'm only trying to analyse it ;-)
The return from space was the birth process including the way the alien (representing his mother's will) kills his brother who represents his free-willed alter ego. The conversation in the shuttle showed the protagonist has some kind of troubled life while the partner, who ends up dead on arrival, is a happy-go-lucky character without hang-ups. No fun allowed with a controlling mother around! So the father figure, played by the military officer who seeks out the psychiatrist, sets out to find a way to understand this mother-son conflict. He brings in no less than a very attractive young woman to present a way forward for the 'son.' Upon the first meeting between the young woman and the alien-mother, there is an immediate wary respect. They recognise in each other a fair rival for the protagonist's life and love. They continue to study and circle each other. Finally when the woman goes to meet the alien-mother, it strikes out at her and wounds her. Such is meeting the in-laws in some families ;-)
I could go on. There's a lot to say on this. Including how the father-figure wants to harness the power of the mother for destructive purposes. But to get to the point, we find that the alien-mother and the hero-son are so totally entwined that he will not survive without her. The young woman determines that separating him from her is the only way to save him. Eventually she tries this and he 'kills' himself to destroy the alien-mother and its hold on him. In the final scene we see her collect the hero's progeny (son) from an orphanage. This represents her final rescue of the hero-son and starting a new life with him as his new independent free-willed self. The question left for me is what she will become in time. A new mother-figure?
Ok, enough. It was a very interesting film. I hope you enjoyed it too.
Monsters of Man (2020)
Pretty awful, not worth the time
Like a lot of bad movies, there might be a germ of a good idea buried in there somewhere. But the acting is so awful, the script-writing so cringeworthy at every turn, and the action sequences so lifeless and repetitive, you will wish you'd read a book instead. If I think really hard of a positive, the scenes of Phnom Penh and the Cambodian countryside were pretty cool.
The Wall (2017)
Hitchcock-style thriller
I'm not going to argue with all the "Anyone who knows military stuff would hate this" reviews because, whatever you know, if you give it a chance, you should find it has all the hallmarks of those classic stripped-back thrillers of old, such as Hitchcock's Rear Window. Enjoyed very much!