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Ma vie de Courgette (2016)
L'amour inconditionnel
What a felicitous oeuvre! Not the shiny kind of beauty, the other kind, the one that transcends.
The story telling, the animation, the backgrounds, everything seems a bit minimalist but the intensity of this 60 minute movie I found was overwhelming.
The central theme of the movie: unconditional love. In some scenes it becomes more explicit, in other less. But I discovered several expressions of it, all cunningly portrayed. Some gorgeous, some hide in the shadows before revealing themselves and others seem even darkly romantic. The most touching, that I will remember for some time to come; When Simon tells Courgette to take his chance - after all Simon just did to reunite the gang, wanting to have all is friends back together and as happy as possible. Sting sang; "if you love somebody, set them free" - here is what that might look like.
Funny that this topic turns out so well, when the story revolves around kids. Food for though; about where pure love might come from and how adults need to cultivate it.
This is a nice change among all the tit for tat stories and the Hollywood saga of the outsider rising to a hero that get rehashed time and time again.
The voice acting by Nick Offerman was also deserves a special mention here.
Me You and Five Bucks (2016)
One very good phrase
Me, you and five bucks.
A very intriguing title, that lets you follow the lives of a couple rather young and pretty handsome fellows through their lives in New York. A monologue that you might have heard in that movie from one of these pretty people looking into reflections on the surface of some pond in Central Park, would probably go something like this: "You know there are so many movies picturing the miserable lives of bummed out New Yorkers these days. All the trouble they have to deal with... like writers block - that's really harsh! but the testimony of sheer will is incredible. After ten years of writers block they just make a film about writers block. Isn't that great? Like really great!? But there is a lot of intriguing photography in the movie going on too. Like all the tricks, that you only can do with really good lenses, tight focus planes and stuff... yeah - but I don't know. And after one and a half hour, guess what, there is some really sweet ending. And if they didn't die, they are still bumped out in New York. This is just great, so great!"
Advantageous (2015)
uploading 1.0
This is quite an intriguing take on the theme of the singluarity. What happens during uploading (transferring the consciousness to a new vessel)? In terms of the cognition, this work seems to reflect the latest advances in terms of the scientific work that has been done the last years. One of the key one of the findings being that the consciousness that we experience is tied to the body and their intertwined growing process. Studies of evolution, robotics and neuroscientists seem to converge on this idea. Enough of guessing the scientific Zeitgeist... What is astonishing about the movie is the fundamental level the theme is approached. Dance is important. It shows from the beginning to the end. And through the very nature of movement, the archaic, the everyday-things, those striving for that higher purpose will probably halt and think (if they see, and not just watch). This work puts great and visionary ideas in a very human context. This review is written with the movie still undigested, so it might sound a bit raw and weird. In any case it made quite an impression on me.
Secrets & Lies (1996)
just what it needs
it'f life and direct.- and every thing that comes after this sentence is to convince the computer to accept my review. The problem is that I don't have to say much more about the film. It speaks for itself; life and direct... beautiful acting raw in the making. pretty brilliant. there it is... and the rest is about filling the requirement of a stupid machine that does not understand the spice in the shortness of a review. But then again, this is worth some time and to fill a couple of lines is no bother to me. And so I do it. Well I try at least. The line just came to me, and I think it fits. Watching a on popcorn film and don't worrying about time is a compliment in itself. What else, what else...