Incredibly misandrist movie about bad people working for terrible people while claiming to be successful. Starts well, and then falls apart in an effort to demonize every person with an XY chromosome.
Propriedade (2022), 2/5
Elements from Buñuel's "Viridiana" and countless class warfare films don't manage to coalesce into a definite point of view due to the unnecessary violence of the agrarian lumpen-proletariat. Whatever the movie tried to say in the end the impression caused is the opposite one, strengthening the right wing (fascist) position of "necessary" repression. Tension and escalation are fun, but I realized that the entire script is cowardly designed to avoid any moral responsibility.
Oppenheimer (2023), 2/5
Full of Nolanisms, with overbearing non-stop music, this overlong, pseudo-intelligent, time shifting movie about the Uber-mensch, the Superman that built The Bomb is in fact unfocused and weak. A failed explosion. When the Trinity test provokes a "that's it?" then something is wrong. It feels like a constant trailer for a miniseries, not a film.
Plan 75 (2022), 4/5
"Civilized" Auschwitz is still a horrible concept. This film presents a near-future scenario where the old can ask the government to kill them as easily as buying a subscription for an internet provider. We follow a few characters surrounding the dystopian concept and we get a tinge of the regret and guilt felt by those employed in this endeavor. It's not for everybody and it's in parts too elegiac, but if the Dardenne and Ken Loach movies are your vibe, prepare for a superb Japanese version of social elderly despair.
Eurotrip (2004), 5/5
I'm a hardened cinephile. I watch Godard films, I search for silent movies, I try to decipher meaning in Bergman dramas. And still.... This thing is a classic. Scotty doesn't know, and critics at the time also didn't. Supremely funny, Eurotrip is a last hurrah for the teen/college road trip, a time without censorship and smartphones, where hard Fs and Rs are uttered, sexy bodies are everywhere and nobody bats an eyelash. Scusi, go watch Eurotrip. Again.
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