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Raised by Wolves (2020)
Stunning
At last proper proper Sci Fi, a story based upon the extremes of atheism v's the extremes of religion, the crusades in space.. I was getting a total Warhammer vibe from the Mithraic Crusaders.. but it's more layered than that... Travis Fimmel playes a crusading knight of the light .. or does he... and the arrogance implied in the carrying of the lead Cleric His Eminence across the wastes of Kepler 22b.. it's biblical in it's views.
Cursed (2020)
You've all bee ruined by your views.
So many people complaining about the use of diversity and it's impact on films and television... just because writers decide to switch things up and shift the aspect of the show to a female lead doe snot make it a bad thing... I fear some people are far too scared of losing what they perceive as their just born rights to have things one way and one way only.
The re-imagining of the Excalibur Legend in Cursed is not done as hard or as serious as say GOT, there are moments where you do truly cringe at the teenesque vibe the show gives off, but then something far darker and more horrific happens and your left wondering if the writers all were on the same page. Overall it.s not brilliant but it is thoroughly enjoyable nonsense none the less.
Artemis Fowl (2020)
What... what... huh!
I just watched a film that failed on every single level.... was there even a story here... it was basically all a first act.. no development.. no mystery, nothing at all.... a mother that was taken before her time... ahh here could be something.. but no just nothing... dismal.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
And we're back...
Far far better than Last Jedi.. this film puts the boot in to Rian Johnson's epic misstep.
9-1-1 (2018)
OMG... where to start.
Connie Britten left Nashville for this ?
Why ?
I can only assume is she under contract to make a certain amount of shows for Fox...
The Orville: Home (2019)
Just losing interest..
Slight SPOLIER
Season 1 showed so much promise.. but I'm just done now, this episode was the last try... losing Alara after her purpose to be in the Union was clear, no thanks i'm done.
Now I'm looking forward to Season 2 of Discovery, the lightness has lost it's edge give me darkness please.
How It Ends (2018)
What....?
C'mon guys... where's the ending, we got 2/3rds of a movie.
How It Ends (2018)
What....?
C'mon guys... where's the ending, we got 2/3rds of a movie.
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Haunting Film... **Spoiler Alert**
Do not read on if you have not seen this movie...
I watched Never let me go last night and I am still thinking about it this morning, what has stayed with me is not what I saw on screen but what I did not see. I am compelled to write this review and as I have already said... SPOILERS.
It is said at the start of the film that the average life expectancy is now 100.
We only have to wait 20 minutes (a lot earlier than in the book) to discover that we are watching a story about cloning. We are told that most clones will complete (die) by their 3rd donation. If we assume that each clone is donating to their original and the organs are not used for other patients, then the use of the word average at the beginning of the movie implies that all people in the real are able to have a clone.
The clones we see are special they are brought up in a facility that imitates a boarding school. In this facility, the teachers who seem to be pro lifers are trying to test the students to see if they have a soul (all of this is left very ambiguous until near the end). It is then said that the school was closed, so we are led to assume that the teachers either did not find, or were closed down before they had the chance to prove the existence of a soul in this group of cloned humans.
Now we are also told that since Hailsham (the school) closed down the rumors are that the clones are now raised in battery farm like conditions. What the viewer is then left to contemplate on (given that we are already aware that cloning is rampant) is the fact that somewhere in this peaceful green English land there are concrete and steel factories producing cloned babies, that as no soul has been proved to exist are one assumes treated no better than cattle. The mind conjures up conditions of mistreatment on a par with animal slaughter houses but with young children or early stage adults at the least. (When one thinks of the population of the UK the slaughter must be on a massive scale)
This film is haunting, the treatment on the operating table of the two characters who we see donate is awful. Keira Knightly's character is left disemboweled, the machine beeps it's last, the doctors leave the room and turn off the lights leaving her corpse on the table. No attempt is made to cover the corpse or close her eyes, one can only assume a clean up crew will come along and collect the leftovers (which is what they are here leftovers not human remains) for some purpose such as glue making in another factory somewhere.
What does it also say about the people who let this happen, those that voted for it and those who use clone. If you are replacing your organs to live to 100, say you begin to need them around the age of 80 that means perfectly healthy duplicate copies of yourself are to die and suffer so you the wrinkly old life lived has been can have another few years to potter around. Above all, these old people are literally killing themselves so that they can go on living.
If cloning were to really happen why not clone a younger version of yourself to carry on your life's work, to leave all your worldly goods to, so in some way you are almost able to achieve immortality. See this movie, understand this movie, carry this movie in your heart for a while then tell others to do the same.