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Resurrection (2022)
Stockholm Syndrome??
I'm in minority here, but i found that this movie had multiple interesting ideas (I think the movie flaw was that they were not executed properly to communicate with audience).
First of all, to me this movie was actually about Stockholm Syndrome (I'm surprised no one mentions this here?). When Margaret was young, she fell in love. She had free will to leave, but her lover slowly enslaved her from initial love-bombing to captivity (she mentions it was just two of them and she gave birth in isolation).
Years after escaping, she had free life, but even then she was not happy = has no strings attached sex, takes care of her daughter in a controlling way. Does not have friends or anyone to whom she would open up to. Completely erasing her emotions (she doesn't tell her daughter she loves her, she tells her she would kill for her).
This movie properly depicts repressed traumas and that even though years pass, your unresolved traumas stay with you. And you can easily make yourself submissive even in most absurd situations if you are trained to consider fear/pain natural, and happiness something you are not worth of.
This movie actually reminded me of "Night Porter" (Stockholm syndrome) and "Birth" (Person is able to believe the most absurd thing when they are in love). To most people, this movie will be absurd, but that borderline absurdity was what made Margaret's prior trauma raw and suffocating leading her to the actions in the end.
Our Son (2023)
Luke Evans is stellar as always
Luke is my favorite actor and I am happy to see that he is now doing more gay movies as he has been in and out of closet earlier in his career.
I was waiting with anticipation for the movie to come out for about 3 months. When it came out and I started watching it, i quickly realized it is not going to be an Oscar-worthy drama and adjusted my expectations.
With these adjusted expectations, I liked the movie. I do not follow the negative reviews (3.9 stars when i'm writing this). I think it is a solid 6 stars movie with an average plot. I have seen much worse movies with much higher rating. For gay people, they usually shoot movies that don't happen to have any plot what-so-ever or are unrealistically over-the-top (Fire Island, Summoning Sylvia, Now Apocalypse) or they are about royals (Red, White and Royal Blue, The Favourite, Young Royals, etc).
This movie is average and I actually liked that aspect. It portrays gay couple going through the motion as any other straight couple and that they have day-to-day problems like anybody else. Usually, when i wanna see a movie like that, I have to go to Asian gay cinema (Thailand or Korean boy love movies/series) and I am really getting tired of reading subtitles all the time. It was refreshing to have a movie like that made in America.
Plus, i was really surprised to see both Kate Burton and Phylicia Rashad. I am a huge fan of both and it was really lovely to see them both in this movie. <3.
The Witcher: The Cost of Chaos (2023)
Anti-climatic ending & missed opportunity
One thing I do not understand is why split the season into two parts if second part is so weak. You make people wait one month to be disappointed.
One forgets most of the politics from S03 part 1 as a month passed and storyline wasn't very memorable to begin with. And then we receive 2 filler episodes (E07, E08) where nothing happens and story lingers and doesn't move forward.
It ultimately feels like the show doesn't know what it wants to deliver. Is it action? (well, it's messy), is it politics as in GoT (well, they are confusing, and people's motivation behind their actions is not properly explained), is it romance? (there's not much character development so the dialogues feel out of place).
Ultimately it feels like weak scripting with bunch of angry characters running around with their agenda that is not properly explained. The story centers around Ciri and everyone chasing her yet no one trully knows what her powers are including her??. To give a show some thrill, writers occasionally throw in 1. A monster or a fight 2. Death of some of the characters (which you do not care about anyway) 3. Some cool CGI. However, it just seems the show lacks any kind of spirit or statement.
They could have built an amazing universe... It feels like the setting is there, but story got lost along the way...
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
My IQ dropped by 20 points watching this
If this is based on books, i presume making this a TV series would have been much better, because the overall story was so simplified, condensed and derived that there was no story left.
There were some bright moments, but overall, I give this a low rating because of a missed opportunity. The premise is interesting, excellent casting but despite that, the script is so bland and predictable that it sucks all the joy out of it. Even 3 excellent actresses Charlize Theron (oscar winner), Kerry Washington and Michelle Yeoh could not save this movie. One does not relate to any characters and does not care for them either.
Even though this is a fairytale movie for younger audience, you can still make it to have nice insights and deeper meaning that older audience can spot and enjoy (Stardust movie, Enchanted etc). This movie had none (which i presume was not the case of the book) and it only focused on spectacular ostentatious costumes, makeup and CGI.