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So this, the recommendation of the people I work for.
Interesting, in that it has a focus on "family values" no longer extent in the west, and that the issues the "hero" - the nondescript everyman who realizes or drives the plot from scenes that he's seen in movies - an expert in all things watched previously on TV in his little "Mirage" cable outlet.
And interesting in the crime that drives the plot, the perception of police (bumbling corrupt fat idiots who - while putting together what happened, don't get their resolution), the crime of honour, the "everyman" who has no education vs his wife who got to grade 4, the relatively comfortable life they're both living...
On the surface, the same, but lift the stones and it's an entirely different world. Entertaining, I'd give it 4 stars, most of that for the insight into other worlds...Now watching Drishyam 2. Which has already started with the Meta, so I'm seeing the promise...
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Now I'd probably bookmarked this to watch later, then forgot, then somehow YouTube began showing me videos of MAGAT Idiots ranting about how it was all left-wing propaganda and BS and of course I had to watch it.
It wasn't bad. Leonardo Dicaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, a comedy/suspense drama about a "French 75" resistance fighter that becomes relevant again after 16 years in hiding. And, by relevant I mean it's sending up the current administration, migrant detention, Christian Agenda. So, say 4.5 Bananas...
Although, to be true, the left has demonstrated no-where near the levels of organization required to be the official "Resistance".
But they should start, and soon...
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Which was a curious recommendation from a neighbour (Kramer) - about a Mobile Seamstress who happens across a drug-deal-gone-bad and sees a chance to escape her life.
The absurdity kind of makes it, and the fact that I'd seen a couple of clips on Facebook Reels, and it's ridiculously high reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, but - well, curious, but ...
Ariadne again, in a different world.
What struck me most was that I couldn't reconcile the accents, actors, props & scenery. That, from the reviews I read, was the intent. It succeeded.
Anyways, one more permutation of the human experience imagined, lived, and now thankfully gone.
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Fine, but a rather predictable remake of the 2003 Korean film "Save the Green Planet".
I rather preferred Yorgos before he got picked up by Hollywood, his satire since then has rather lost it's edge.
The original film - which I watched immediately afterwards - while far more brutal and torturous to watch - kept more of the value.
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This was better than I expected, and probably good that I waited some 20 years to watch it as there was the added layer of nostalgia.
The plot, an African-American hit man for the mafia becomes their target - think "Ogami Ittō" from “Lone Wolf and Cub”.
It mashes up perfectly Japanese/Samurai, African American, Hip-Hop and Italian Mob Culture. The casting of the Italian Mobsters, perfect. The gaudy Italian houses, perfect. The background violence in the cartoons, the Samurai Sword flourish he does with his gun, both perfect. And - while not the action film you might have hoped for, it's nuanced and slow development of the characters build a certain atmosphere that most current films neglect.
Not quite a masterpiece, but a very good try by director Jim Jarmusch.