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Mother! (2017)
Way too obvious. Starts well and it becomes bad really early.
This movie starts well and I enjoyed the first third of the movie. I got the message and emotion of the movie by then... great... we all got it. But then the director could not stop himself and goes completely overboard. The movie goes on and on with numerous unnecessary metaphors that do not serve any purpose except being smart. The storytelling becomes patronizing and stops making sense. It killed most of the emotion I could feel in the first third of the movie. I found the second half of the movie sad, not because of the story of which I was detached from by then, but because I could feel the director's obvious thoughts in every scene that served nothing.
American Son (2019)
Good movie that feels like a play. Emotional rollercoaster.
I had no expectations about this movie and was happily surprised. There is absolutely no action yet I couldn't stop watching it even if I wanted to stop. I was really invested in it. Constant tense and suspense mood.
Its a movie that feels like a play (it is adapted after a play) and it is mostly dialogue.
All actors are really good in it. Kerry Washington comes off as a bit annoying but it is a realistic portrait of a sleepless mother in distress.
Not an action movie, more of an emotional journey.