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Where Is Wendy Williams? (2024)
A good documentary of mistreatment.
I would like to preface I have experience with dementia patients. My grandparents both had dementia. It is SO obvious, so so obvious, Wendy had it while filming. At the BARE MINIMUM, that something was not right cognitively.
The only people who seemed to care about Wendy in the series was her nephew, the bank, and partially the film crew. Her manager, and her "crew" insisted over and over "that's just Wendy!" While the clip before is her not knowing where she is, babbling about nonsense, and losing her mind over a vape.
In between clips of Wendy having random outburst, being utterly confused, rambling on, and forgetting things...her managers are insisting she will be back on tv! And having a podcast!
Although this was filmed before her "official" diagnosis it's VERY clear she isn't there and something is wrong. This docu-series is hard to watch, its as if she's a puppet for views and money paraded around by her management team and crew. Truly sick. If anything, this exposes how corrupt her team is, and how truly sick social media and the like are.
This was filmed beautifully and truly does a good exposé so to speak on how she was treated.
All I can say is I hope she's somewhere being taken care of and no being paraded around like a sick show monkey. As someone who's witnessed the disease firsthand, no one deserves to go through it, and I truly hope she is being taken care of and comfortable.
The Journey of India (2022)
A pat on the back for India.
This series is BEAUTIFUL. The cinematography is gorgeous, it flows well. It's a very easy and fascinating watch for sure. It highlights many positive points of India. But that's it.
India is a diverse and very rich country, have no doubt in this, and it has a very rich and colorful history. But not all that history is good. I was particularly surprised with the episode (ep 2 the land of green guardians ) that talks about India's conservation efforts. It does not mention the MASSIVE pollution problem in India what so ever. It only talks about their parks, the cleanest city in India, composting etc. It focuses on individual cities and people who ARE doing the right thing and completely ignores that 90% of the country is not.
"Look! We have these beautiful animals and wildlife in our national parks! Our country is so vibrant with beautiful flowing rivers and beautiful wildlife"
Meanwhile the biggest and most important river in India (the Ganga) is ecologically dead in parts, and heavily polluted, also ignoring the fact India is the most heavily polluted country in the world.
While this docuseries does a good job focusing on the positive aspects of India, it doesn't show the real side of India. Not just with conservation but with all parts of the series. Religion, food, conservation, etc.
If you want to ONLY see the good parts of India, watch this series. If you want to see the REAL side of India, the GOOD and the BAD, I suggest going to YouTube and watching real travelers go there.
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Boring, confusing, same story but slightly different
I couldn't get through the first 20 minutes without wanting to turn off my TV. The only reason I kept watching was to confirm my suspicion of this movie being awful, and, my suspicion was indeed confirmed.
The beginning of this movie does nothing but confuse and bore you. Within the first 20 min you learn that grace's avatar somehow got pregnant?? (How this is possible when she quite literally died is beyond me) and any explanation given in the movie is null and void and takes away from the overall meaning of the story (will get to this later) and you also learn that Miles Quaritch aka the general somehow also "survived" and is back in the movie, after being shot with 2 arrows in the heart that, by his own quote "will stop your heart in one minute" the plot explains his "reanimating" by saying he and the other marines were in fact killed in their human bodies but they were transferred over to avatar bodies just like similarly to how sully was, which, as we saw in the first movie very complicated, and doesn't work if the spirit is too weak (as in graces case) AND unless their god allows it. But, despite this, somehow these marines all did it successfully.
The fact they completely disregard these deaths in the movie and easily explain odd things that are impossible (grace being pregnant but also dead ??) it takes away the emotional impact. From this point on you don't trust that anyone is truly dead, you second guess everything because as James cameron has demonstrated, logic is out of the question with this movie, it goes against its OWN LORE.
This movie also essentially is the first movie but slightly different, the overall plot is almost identical and to make it worse they use the same characters from the first as the main antagonists. It boils down to evil marine/american government/ scientists vs Jake sully and other natives fighting over, you guessed it, their land. The only main difference is they add new characters but the "issues" are the exact same. Way too cliche, way too predictable.
Many reviews also say the script is awful but the movie is stunning, I personally think the movie looks no better than the first. It's pretty, yes, but for 90% of viewers the difference in cgi isn't different from the first, not to mention James cameron supposedly worked on this for 13 years, obviously ignoring the script entirely. The amount of bragging and hype behind this movie was NOT warranted, this is easily one of the worst, and frustrating movies I've ever watched and by far the worst James cameron movie I've ever seen and it's "beauty" doesn't make up for the other atrocities.