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Soul (2020)
Baffled
Just one question. Of all the people in the world like kids, parents that will leave orphaned kids behind, doctors, nurses, firemen etc. why a guy who wanted a better career is the one getting a second chance?
Gente di rispetto (1975)
The making of a hero
I don't usually write reviews as existing ones have already covered all major points, nevertheless i think this film deserves better.
It's advertised as mystery/Giallo so i was expecting something shallow and entertaining but the film kept lingering in my brain for some time.
I kept discovering layer upon layer of ideas and that's what very good movies do to me. I realised that i had completely misjudged it and at last it hit me.
This isn't a film about some movie hero solving a mystery and bringing the culprit to justice, this is about the making of a hero.
A real, flawed person like we all are, finds herself in the midst of mystery and murder with nobody daring to stand up to the villain behind it; so ultimately a decision has to be taken.
Bow down like the others did or fight against all odds risking your life, and that's the moment that a person has to take a stance.
Few choose to fight, so a hero is born.
Following (1998)
The Curse of the Fanboys (A Horror Story).
Instead of risking my neck to catch coronavirus along with Nolan's latest film, why not see his widely praised debut at home? So here a few things i have to note.
1) It's pretentious. Both the hero and the hitman have some interesting philosophies motivating their actions but the film soon dumps these ideas revealing its conventional and hollow plot.
2) It's unnecessarily convoluted, the 31 (according to trivia) changes of timeline could just as well have been served by a couple of flashbacks at the final act to deliver the twists and fill the plot holes.
3) It isn't suspenseful. The first timeline is about the hero turning into a fanboy almost at first sight and then the low-stake scenes repeat themselves. The second is the hero getting a girlfriend which also is suspense-free until very late in the film when she reveals what she really wants of him to do while the last timeline is him preparing for the safe heist. That would have been thrilling if the non-linear mess had presented the stakes behind the heist, only it doesn't but after it happens so we get a random heist.
4) It doesn't make much sense. Is the hitman planning to frame the hero for a burglary gone wrong or for a date ending in homicide? If it's the burglary, why instruct the woman to date him? Planting the evidence at the crime scene is more than enough. If it's the date option, the police always has the date/husband on top of their suspect list. The things stolen from her house are not needed to be found at the hero's place for the authorities to be convinced about the hero-victim connection.
5) The hitman's plan is one of the dumbest in movie history. He is the first paid killer to date his victim by plan, leaving witnesses and DNA everywhere to connect him with her if anything goes wrong. He also befriends the guy to be framed so another set of witnesses like the couple that saw them robbing their apartment, can testify of them being accomplices in crime
6) I wonder, if the hero didn't do the incredibly stupid thing of surrendering to the police would they have found him? He's a very meek guy with almost certainly no criminal record, so nothing for the cops to compare the evidence at the crime scene with. That means the hitman's plan hinges on the hero being as dumb as humanly possible, surrendering willfully to the police and confessing. Not a great plan.
7) Let's suppose that the hero after declaring his intentions to the woman about confessing and surrendering to the cops, does the obvious, sensible thing, gets a cab and heads to the police station. That sounds like a bulletproof alibi as the time of death would prove. Again, not a great plan by the hitman
8) Why the hitman beat up the hero? No, Nolan wanting the bruises on the hero to differentiate the second from the third timeline doesn't qualify as an answer.
9) The way the victim was murdered is identical to how the mobster that hired the hitman, is killing his victims. That would lead the police straight to him as this is his signature killing since he could have just as well have hired the fall guy. Again, it doesn't sound like an intelligent plan.
So overall an unnecessarily convoluted, poorly constructed, pretentious and dumb film that if it wasn't for Nolan people would have easily pointed at its shortcomings.
Naega salinbeomida (2012)
Tries too hard.
The tone is all over the place going from gritty thiller with tragic moments to comedy and then descending into ridiculous cheesefest.
Also when all is revealed and you start thinking about it the plan by the hero is too farfetched and so is the stunts and the damage both the killer and the detective are able to endure.
So overall i was left disappointed as a good idea for a revenge thiller is marred by the attempt to fit too many tones, impress with too over-the-top action or make the killer too powerful to fight against.
On the other hand it's a well shot film with good acting, an excellent pace for a 2-hour movie and definetely entertaining so if the negative points don't bother you as much as me, it can be a pleasant watch.
The Reincarnate (1971)
Reicarnation talk.
Not bad but it's too talky and low key to generate enough thrills or work as a horror picture.