I will not even go into detail but it sure made me feel like I am watching a very cheap remake of A Beautiful Mind with an addition of reincarnation; not that the plot has anything to do with A Beautiful Mind. Hopefully, this will be the last movie that I have watched where white markers save lives.
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Skam
(2015–2017)
Fresh & Sincere Look at Teenagers
28 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Skam does a wonderful job in portraying the world of teenagers with a very fresh perspective. Each season focuses on one of the main characters and takes us into a sincere journey with them with 360 perspective; their emotions, ideas, and interactions with people around them which makes you feel like you are a teenager again and even though you are from a completely different culture, you feel like one of them. It shares the essence of being a teenager in today's world thanks to Julie Andem's prior research with teenagers.
The strongest aspect of Skam is the openness of characters to different cultures, ideologies, and sexual orientations. We see them doing all the mistakes that we have thought once to be the end of our lives. However, with a little help from their friends and a realistically depicted maturation, they find the strength to go on and discover some more.
Skam touches upon the most important subjects in an interesting and intelligent way; religion, homosexuality, sexual abuse, discovering sexuality, building one's identity. These teenagers build the most interesting dialogues that go far beyond being politically correct. They get stronger together and stand for their rights and freedom against the most unfortunate experiences. There is no victimization but only an emphasis on strength. Each episode, there is a valuable insight you get from the main characters. They are not always right or they don't always do the right thing but they are also open to change and learn from others.
It is the first time that I have seen a Muslim woman portrayed as a random human with ideas, passions, objectivity, and open-mindedness. The misunderstandings based on religious and cultural differences are also handled in a great way. Changing the lenses each season, taking a new character's perspective makes you understand the value of open interaction and accepting everybody as their selves. Unlike the American high school series, there is no vengeance and master plans, nothing is told in an unrealistic way, nothing is overly romantic; it is about the complicated, messy but purposeful process we have all been through.
It's been a delight to join these teenagers' journey for four seasons and I am excited to learn more about Sana this season. After a very long time, I am happy that I found a 10 out of 10 show that takes me back to my high school years and takes me through a roller coaster of emotions.
The strongest aspect of Skam is the openness of characters to different cultures, ideologies, and sexual orientations. We see them doing all the mistakes that we have thought once to be the end of our lives. However, with a little help from their friends and a realistically depicted maturation, they find the strength to go on and discover some more.
Skam touches upon the most important subjects in an interesting and intelligent way; religion, homosexuality, sexual abuse, discovering sexuality, building one's identity. These teenagers build the most interesting dialogues that go far beyond being politically correct. They get stronger together and stand for their rights and freedom against the most unfortunate experiences. There is no victimization but only an emphasis on strength. Each episode, there is a valuable insight you get from the main characters. They are not always right or they don't always do the right thing but they are also open to change and learn from others.
It is the first time that I have seen a Muslim woman portrayed as a random human with ideas, passions, objectivity, and open-mindedness. The misunderstandings based on religious and cultural differences are also handled in a great way. Changing the lenses each season, taking a new character's perspective makes you understand the value of open interaction and accepting everybody as their selves. Unlike the American high school series, there is no vengeance and master plans, nothing is told in an unrealistic way, nothing is overly romantic; it is about the complicated, messy but purposeful process we have all been through.
It's been a delight to join these teenagers' journey for four seasons and I am excited to learn more about Sana this season. After a very long time, I am happy that I found a 10 out of 10 show that takes me back to my high school years and takes me through a roller coaster of emotions.
Outlander
(2014– )
Falling in and out of love in one season
8 March 2016
Warning: Spoilers
When I first started watching the Outlander, it captured me with its characters, interesting plot, and of course the lovely Scotland. Until the last episodes, I was considering reading the books and even an immediate visit to the Highlands, and then Outlander destroyed everything it created.
First of all, the main thing I liked about it was the strong emphasis on judging an era solely based on the values, conditions, and ideologies of that era. The process of Claire to see things under a different light was partially interesting. Though lacking the true power of the mentality of a society, it wasn't that strong.
When three rape scenes per episode became the Outlander's main topic, it started to repulse me and bore me. First of all, "the hardships" are so degraded, and so concentrated onto sexual violence. Like there's nothing else to be told, or everything else is a sub-plot, it goes on from one rape to another, totally meaningless, aimless, and lost in itself.
I prefer the Haneke style in reflecting the violence of any kind. He is a master of affecting you deeply without making the movie unnecessarily graphic. He helps the audience to leave its voyeurism and create a more meaningful connection with the events taking place in the story being told.
Unfortunately, Outlander does not only fail in a successful reflection of the darkest remarks of the human kind, it also disgusts, and repulses its audience. I was watching the last episodes as if I was watching "Srpski Film".
Season finale assured that I will not continue watching the series or read the books, since it is not -despite all the other successful aspects of it- in the quality story telling level, or has any comprehension of "the disturbance" as many other successful directors' and writers' works have. Since it is solely based on using graphic images, that anybody could come up with and create the similar level of disgust regardless of the acting, writing, and directing.
In only one season, the Outlander destroys its image that's been created in your mind. You fall in love with it and then it does anything in its power to make you fall out of love. At the end I even questioned the time I spared for 16 episodes.
First of all, the main thing I liked about it was the strong emphasis on judging an era solely based on the values, conditions, and ideologies of that era. The process of Claire to see things under a different light was partially interesting. Though lacking the true power of the mentality of a society, it wasn't that strong.
When three rape scenes per episode became the Outlander's main topic, it started to repulse me and bore me. First of all, "the hardships" are so degraded, and so concentrated onto sexual violence. Like there's nothing else to be told, or everything else is a sub-plot, it goes on from one rape to another, totally meaningless, aimless, and lost in itself.
I prefer the Haneke style in reflecting the violence of any kind. He is a master of affecting you deeply without making the movie unnecessarily graphic. He helps the audience to leave its voyeurism and create a more meaningful connection with the events taking place in the story being told.
Unfortunately, Outlander does not only fail in a successful reflection of the darkest remarks of the human kind, it also disgusts, and repulses its audience. I was watching the last episodes as if I was watching "Srpski Film".
Season finale assured that I will not continue watching the series or read the books, since it is not -despite all the other successful aspects of it- in the quality story telling level, or has any comprehension of "the disturbance" as many other successful directors' and writers' works have. Since it is solely based on using graphic images, that anybody could come up with and create the similar level of disgust regardless of the acting, writing, and directing.
In only one season, the Outlander destroys its image that's been created in your mind. You fall in love with it and then it does anything in its power to make you fall out of love. At the end I even questioned the time I spared for 16 episodes.
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