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Songbird (2018)
Laziest movie of 2018?
This movie is so bad and cringy its painfully hard to watch, where to even begin, the plot, the non existant logic behind the character motivations and how they are supposed to act,or the annoying in your face try hard gender role reversal this movie is constantly banging you in head with. so the lady from "how i met your mother" the main character in this is a 90s Britpop band singer, after her band breaks up while on tour in the uk for some reason they never tells us she meets with her lesbian friend that lives in the same town and drunkenly apply to go back into university in that same city and basically things just forcefully happen from there. the guy she meets the night of the breakup at some bar is the same guy responsible for college applications or something and the barbecue party in the beach where she makes the stupid bet with her friend where they bet on who has sex first so the guy can find about it and be mad that he is just a part of a bet, oh and i almost forgot about the long painful scene where they invite the university guy to this party where they tell him to bring only "sexually active male friends". basically everything in this movie is just is just a plot device the movie doesn't even care about making you sympathize with these characters its just boom this happens so that this other thing can happen. these people obviously just rolled the cameras and started improvising it feels like it was slapped together in two days in literally 4 locations the dorm, next to the big tree, the beach and the cafeteria this movie might be the laziest film i've ever seen and it shows, if only it was a bit serious it could actually became a little bit funny bad and not annoying condescending tone bad.
Citizenfour (2014)
An eye opening experience
Yesterday i saw the 2014 documentary film named "Citizenfour". the movie follows the story behind the encounter between Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill that took place in a Hong Kong hotel and over the eight days that followed ,which led to the famous NSA leaks and data collection revelations.
This piece of film is actually documented history that we now as a whole human species possess. Nothing like this movie that i have seen before captures most what it's like to live in the modern ages. It shows also what a modern day hero looks like. the shots and frames and score all help get you in the mindset of being fully aware of the technology that surrounds us and the powers that gives us as individuals and what could lead to the demise of all this technological progress if the wrong people have the powers and resources to control, especially if the amount of internet freedom keeps decreasing in the coming years.
As it is presented in the film there is nothing scarier than being followed everywhere and every move you do is not only collected and documented but also predicted. and with the 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world's population having internet access it will be almost impossible to escape being traced at anytime and with a mind-blowing ease,i mean google for yourself "how to trace someone's IP while Facebook chatting" and the fact that the majority of people in the world are oblivious and don't actually care or are curious how their devices work and how are they vulnerable is completely insane.
in short this was an eye opening film and i am grateful for Snowden and the film maker Laura Poitras for giving me this rattling and shaking of the reality we live in. this puts so many things in perspective.