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Reviews
Room 104: Voyeurs (2017)
Ignore the Morons
Christ. The great thing about this series is that you never know what to expect, and it's not afraid to experiment. Yet when it tries something interesting like a ballet version of a story, you get reviews like the ones on here 'WHA? Peeple dancing an' that? Are ya sayin' I'm gay or Summit?'. For god sake people, get some self respect and stop wearig your ignorance as a bade of honour.
For all those who are not close minded idiots, this is a beautiful episode which really expresses the sadness of losing your youth. Watch it and enjoy, if you're not stupid.
The State (2017)
Utterly false
The manner in which this programme tries to win sympathy for the main characters by pretending they were innocent victims who simply didn't know that ISIS sold women into sexual slavery, murdered Shia Muslims, behead people etc, would be laughable if it was not so disgusting.
For example, in episode 3, one of the recruits objects to a slave market as 'rape', while another attempts to 'rescue' the victim by buying her. Both recruits would have known perfectly well that ISIS behaved this way long before joining ISIS - it's all over the media. Similarly, we are supposed to sympathise with a female doctor who is disgusted by the misogyny and violence of ISIS. Unless she had been living in a cave, she would have known precisely what she was signing up for.
Trying to paint these characters as 'victims' for whom we should feel sorry, is evidently a more 'nuanced' approach. If, that is, you are willing to ignore the plain facts about their behaviour. Coming to terms with the fact that such recruits are wilfully complicit in ISIS' crimes is evidently more than some people can cope with.
Sátántangó (1994)
Sick film.
No film is a 'masterpiece' if it involved physically torturing an obviously distressed cat for 10 minutes,throwing it around like an object, before wrapping it in a net bag and hanging up, then returning with a saucer of milk which is 'supposed' to have rat poison in it, physically forcing it to drink by pressing it's head down then - in the very same shot - standing by while the cat succumbs to unconsciousness, only for the character to be seen walking around with the corpse of the same cat in the next shot.
And - get this - this is not just animal cruelty. A child actor of approximately 12-13 years old performs all these acts for the camera. Christ knows what mental effect it had on her.
If this film had been made by a western director, critics would be excoriating it and its director. The only thing this 'masterpiece' reveals is that hypocrisy.