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MatthewHKlein
Reviews
Architects of Denial (2017)
Compelling
I live down the street and this was playing this week, so my wife and I saw it this weekend. Having known nothing about the subject before seeing this documentary, I found it extremely informative and makes the clear case that there was an Armenian Genocide, it laid the groundwork for the Jewish holocaust, and now there is a clear effort by US politicians to cover it up and ignore it. It's actually so effective that whenever a congressman is interviewed in the movie and they deny it, it's laughable because we now have been shown the truth and evidence. Julian Assange comes off very well as does George Clooney. Nice shots of an area of the world that people don't typically experience.
The Florida Project (2017)
Not good
Other than Willem Dafoe who lends solid credibility to this thing, it is almost unwatchable. I'm actually surprised children can work on a movie and be verbally assaulted and sworn at incessantly at the workplace. Even at the end of the movie when there could have been a moment of breakthrough to justify the rest of this random event, well, that too was missed. There is nothing redeeming about this unless you want to be assaulted without any insight. Simply offensive. Think about Ken Loach and what tremendous heart he would deliver with the same actors and setting.