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Comandante (2023)
Italian superiority complex
After watching this movie, besides all the unlikely situations it depicts (among several other nonsense: the scene of the sabotage of the submarine's electrical panel), the mind runs to this quote taken from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the night", referring to Italians in general: "I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon-down here everybody thinks he's Christ." The director of this film must be seriously affected by some kind of psychological syndrome that cannot be better described. The evidence comes towards the end of the film, when the Belgian commander asks the Italian one something like this: "Why did you save us? We wouldn't have done the same for you". To the careful spectator the logical answer here would have been "Because we are seafaring men", as that was the refrain repeated by the Italian commander, insistently, along the story just told. Instead, the answer here suddenly turns to a highly presumptuous "Because we are Italians".
Vision strictly recommended only to that slice of Italian public who is affected by a similar kind of superiority complex: they will love this film. All others: avoid carefully this pile of garbage!
Délicieux (2021)
Cheap storytelling, brainwashed historical view
"Delicious" by Éric Besnard: plain garbage. Historically speaking: a shame, a disgrace of a movie. The screenplay is obviously the fruit of minds that have been brainwashed all their life about faults of the Ancien Régime vis-à-vis supposed merits of the French revolutionaries; forgetting that those revolutionaries at the time were not dissimilar in their ways to today's worst integralists. To those who gave a high rating to this movie: "The Terror" and "The Great Terror" in French Revolution, does it ring a bell? Go check out how many innocent victims they caused, in historical estimations. You might end up adjusting your mental patterns a little. Back to this film: consider the role played by the only clergymen here, during the initial banquet. Honestly, is it historically credible or rather the expression of blind anticlericalism? He and all other characters in the story aren't but pathetic caricatures good for Mother Goose, at best. Not to mention about other faults in storytelling here: soooo predictable! But all of this must be a successful kind of blueprint in today's cinematography, judging from the relatively high rate enjoyed by this rubbish.