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Bienvenue parmi nous (2012)
Welcome to the Rileys (2010) vibes
This is a feel-good movie, giving almost the same vibes as the 2010 similarly titled Welcome to the Rileys picture. The plot is also pretty similar: depressed aging man meets runaway teen and decides to help her while she helps him finding a new purpose in life. Although the two share roughly the same plot, the action unfolds differently, and I can't really decide which one I liked better. If in Welcome to the Rileys, the depression of the main character has a solid reason (the death of their daughter), this time the protagonist seems to be depressed for no specific reason, other then aging, becoming less relevant, and, ultimately, a "painter's block". He has a loving wife, a family, fame, and a good amount of money. However, he decides to run away from it all, while also contemplating suicide. On his way, he meets a troubled young girl, that was banished by her mother and stepfather. She's not really a runaway, but she has no way to go so she jumps into the depressed man's car on heavy rain. What comes next is pretty predictable, yet not boring.
I enjoyed watching this movie, and it's a solid 7/10 from me.
The Walking Dead: The Day Will Come When You Won't Be (2016)
Where the hell were those missiles?
So, a few episodes ago, Abraham finds a full box of missiles and a missile launcher. Then, Daryl successfully uses one to blow into pieces a group of Saviours and Abraham uses one to light up the lake at Alexandria. But where the hell were the rest of them when most needed? It's just stupid how easy they could've just blow each Saviours pack when they blocked their way. Even if they didn't took them when they left, why didn't anyone say "You know what, instead of going pointlessly in circles, let's just go back, get them missiles and blow this sob's up." The end.
One more thing: where the hell were these Saviours all the time Rick and the rest spent at Alexandria? They just popped up from thin air. And why would've they just left Alexandria alone all this time, when Alexandria had large amounts of resources (including an arsenal) and the people there were basically stupid and had no idea how to defend themselves? Hard to believe they didn't know it was there.
The plot has huge holes in it and the writers just don't feel the need to explain anything.
Black Mirror: Arkangel (2017)
Major plot holes in this one
A good idea badly executed.
The story makes perfect sense in the first half of the episode: an over protective mother enroles in a beta program for child surveilance that involves a chip being implanted into her 6 y.o dauhter's brain and a tablet on wich said daughter cand be located any time (GPS tracking is implied). As extra features, the device also sports real time surveillance (live retina video feed) and parental control filters (violent or explicit images are blurred/pixelated, audio is scrambled). This feature is optional and clearly a very bad idea to begin with, but the mother ends up abusing it, pushing her daugheter into developing a very predictable deviant behaviour (stabbing herself with a pencil just to see blood). At a doctor advice, she then decides to switch off the parental controls and puts the tablet away for what should've been forever.
Fast forward to the second half:
The action resumes with a 15 y.o teenager and a suspiciously unaged mother (they really should've done a better job in the first half, making the actress look younger - but this is just a small mistake). Predictably, the girl starts shagging her childhood friend, that now grew up to be a furniture delivery guy/drug dealer. The mom finds up her daughter is lying to her so she powers on the old tablet and catches a live porn feed involving her daughter and the before mentioned boyfriend, drug abuse, etc. Instead of confronting her daughter, she decides to do some cyber helicopter parenting, blackmails the boyfriend into dumping her daughter and drugs her with an emergency second day pill so she will lose the implied pregnancy. The daughter gets sick at school from the pill and finds up this way that her mother is still using the tablet to spy on her. Goes home, finds the tablet and beats the life out of her mother with said tablet, then runs away leaving her mother in a very poor state.
What's wrong with all that?
In the first half, the doctor says to the mother that the Arkangel program is already banned in Europe and will be shut down in the US later that year.
You also don't have to be a software engineer to figure out that the Arkangel application needs to communicate with a server in order to work. It's also subscription based, but she was admitted as a trial in the beta testing.
All these considering, the audience is forced to believe that the tablet based surveillance system still works 9 years after it was banned in the US.
Further more, the daughter finds the tablet and just acceses the application without any kind of login security (when they show the mother how to use the tablet, the operator shows her that she must enter a PIN to use it).
So, basically, the whole second half action is based on a false premise that the Arkangel system still works, and anybody that can get his hands on the tablet (that's just lying around under the pillow) can access what was supposed to be a very secure app without any authentification.
The Beach (2000)
Life changing drama
I was just a kid in the year 2000 but I still remember that day like it was yesterday. It was a beautiful March morning and I skipped school to go and see a movie. I had no idea what I wanted to watch so I was wandering around on the Theaters Blvd. Than I saw the billboard for The Beach and I said to myself "no way, I can't stand DiCaprio". But as there were no other screenings I compromised and entered. I was not expecting to see life changing movie. But I was about to be stunned. The Beach is just so different from all the hocus-pocus action flick movies you see every f*****g day. Mainly a psychological mind-blowing drama, it sticks to your brain like s**t to the toilet: sure, it will clean after a few flushes, but it will always be remembered as the s**t that broke the pattern. Think of it like a theater of the absurd. It's f*****g brilliant.