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Next (2020)
How outside knowledge of the world in advance for Next?
Looked a promising series. But then: how could NeXt know about the programmer's financial circumstances before a wifi modem was connected? Is a weak point. I will look at the second episode anyway.
Devs (2020)
Nice as an as if story.
Even with the calculation speeds te be expected with quantum computers I think
it will impossible to handle all the data needed to be able to project images of
the past. Everything is connected. To compartmentalize space and time to project the events you want to see seems impossible to me. 10 to the power 80 atooms in the universe! Besides, Katie taking peeks into the past of Lily, how would she know the time-space coordinates of these places. So nice as an as if story.
Henk321
Another Earth (2011)
This is a allegorical movie about human kind.
Another earth to help us see ourselves. A serious accident to show our human drama. So with the movie we are encouraged to see our own human drama on our own planet. The people on the other earth are us! We have already forgotten the impact of the picture of Earth taken out of the Apollo capsule. We live in a world where wars and conflicts are raging. Where millions suffered and are suffering. Where a financial crisis is going on. Where we are unable to solve our problems. In the movie our world is suffering, the other world is how it can be. The composer's family is alive. Rhoda finished her study. Rhoda sees her better self in the end of the movie. The other world population is how we could be. The other world is a jewel in the sky. The other world is the jewel we should keep in mind. The movie helps us to change our perspective, from having to accept grim reality as it is on this world to a dream for a better world. Only a jewel in the sky of our mind, our dream, keeps us wanting to change the world for the better. As Rhoda gives her journey to the other world to John, so we should give to the other in a more urgent need. I think this was meant with the movie.
Black Swan (2010)
Weird movie
This is a weird movie. Apparently their is something terribly wrong with the main character. First she is chosen to do the leading role in the ballet Swann Lake. Not much of the structure of this ballet is shown in the movie. No build up of essential moments in the performance of the ballet. No artistic theme to develop which would have made a nice ballet movie. No, the emphasis is laid upon the weird experiences of the girl who is to dance the leading role of Swann Lake. During the announcement that she will be dancing the leading role you can see her delicacy and understand why she was chosen. You seen inner beauty, a maturity, which couldn't in any possible way go together with a derangement and madness of the girl, which will later develop. Do her feelings of guilt of pushing the older ballerina out of her job make her see her fingertips bleeding and peeling the skin of them? OK she is dominated by her mother, but then the discrepancy of having to dance a mature role and possessing a lot of young girls doll's. She is certainly not a crazy adolescent. Is she getting crazier because her college put some drug in her drink? What are we made to believe? So is her delicacy and maturity which came with practicing ballet for years only a thin veneer? Not something she built up her own? This is the discrepancy in this movie. The movie could have a nice ballet movie, where difficulties were to overcome, with maybe an accompanying love story and all would end in a beautiful, artistic performance. Now we're made to believe that sticking a piece a glass in herself makes her perform excellently. "Made it perfect" as she said herself at the end heavily bleeding. We don't see so much of this perfection because there are only Incoherent fragments of the performance. Do you think she will perform again? I don't think so. She won't be asked again. A pity that a movie about weirdness and madness couldn't have been one about artistry and beauty.
Sex Is Comedy (2002)
A disillusion at the end of the movie!
I don't recommend watching this movie. It's a movie in which a movie is being filmed, with no attraction between actress and actor being played. The sex scene at the end of the movie which is to explain the reluctance of the actress (being played in the movie) to cooperate with the actor (being played in the movie)in it is a blunt repetition of the same scene in the Breillat movie Fat Girl. Everything there was played with more delicacy, if you can attach delicacy to a sex act like that. A typical French expression for the the thing happening in Sex is comedy is Oh la la! In Breillat's film Brief Crossing there also is sensitivity. In Sex is comedy I don't see real sensitivity and also a clear plot for the movie is not being developed so that there is a rather loose story with the disillusion of the end.