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This is cinema. Still holds today. The longevity. If the new generation finds it today they will love it so much. My first film from Robert Bresson and it didnot dissapoint. Isee it as the metaphor to the societal fallout even though we seem to be going on and about just fine, but our society is woven on so small threads that it doesnot take a person to collapse. And collapse of one person is collapse of society. We find lot of temporary solutions and trying to find the thing we want, but when the disgust leaves, the fall is imminent. Loved the film. Perhaps the darker ending makes it better. He finally gets liberated at the end. That is something many people will not consider. While each and every character is still chained to the politics, religion and everything in between. Loved it. Only recommend this to my film mutuals.

Wow. Loved it. This film is so so good. You remember it for a lot of things. You will like the character in the film. Who doesnot know why we are here, and slowly and slowly it creeps up and catches up to you. But then the strung if twists happen. And each leads you to the unexpected. Which makes this film so much better. It takes a dark-comedic take on mistakes, redemption, loyalty, honor, principles. The chemistry between the main leads is so wonderful which makes it a good film. In the backdrop it is like a father-son relation while on the face value it is the story of two hitmen. These things remain in popular culture for a long time and it has still proven to remain in conversation. Loved every dark twisting moment of this film. It keeps you on your toes.

After watching this, I know why people relate to this film a lot. It is like every person trying to find their own path in the life. The pitfalls, the broke life, and not knowing where we are headed. The moment when we are figuring ourselves out. It can make us or break us. But there is hope, just keep persisting. It is that sweet-sour point in our life that is where the film is based on. The dumb things we do, the friendships we torn apart, the stepbacks we take, bad decisions and ruining the best things in our life (temporarily)... to getting to the point where actually you are a grown-up, behaving responsibly, taking care of yourself, loving the people around you, making rational decisions and mending the torn relations. This is life. It will be good to you. Just be kind.

This is to all the freindships/relations we tore and couldnot mend up and to all that we did mend up. Thus is to growing up.

Through ages and ages, women have been without power, even though it may seem she is an important figure but outside of her circle, she is to be used just for the apperance. Vicky Krieps is a delight. The women forced to oblige to the unrealistic standards of weight and beauty, not accepting the normal women. The things one woman has to do to get to this societal image and the toll on the mental health, even true today. You can feel the pain of all this in this film even though they had given her a bit of freedom of escaping (which I think is far from truth). Also, the hair styling was top notch, and I dont know why it reminded me of Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky. Beautiful set design and dresses. Loved the use of lights and everything. But it is not only patriarchy that has engulfed the women throughtout this time. But all the things which benifit from them. I often wonder, what it would be like living in a eutopian world with no fallable systems created by humans.

It is as good as you have been told. You will love every part of it. It has everything a film needs to be. Animation is a stepping stone for any director, it gives the way how to shoot the film. Wonderful choreography, good shots, nice story and 9 lives of a cat. Some shots were so beautifully created - poetry. Loved the first half more with wonderful cinematic effects with death and puss retiring to a cathome. The side stories are stepping stones to this film. Very rarely does a film have a good bunch of characters. Lovely everything about this. The redemption happens, but for some it is too late. Death does come for us all. Are we ready for meeting the death. Loved it. Highly recommend it to everyone.

One of the few films in the MCU, that has so many interesting characters and Ryan is doing the justice to them. Queen, M'Baku, Shuri, Nakia, Ross, dora milaje, and each character is so powerful to the story. Not some background characters. This is not seen in other MCU films. The first half of this film was so powerful, it really means what Chadwick means to all of the cast and crew. Loved that. Good story but was disappointed with Namor and the ending fight in ocean. Marvel visual studios need to do better. You are earning a ton load of money, invest them on people who do the work. Visuals could have been far better. The acting and also the emotional connection with that... so strong. You wouldn't believe. She shows why she is the queen mother. Angella Bassett nails this performance as an actor, mother and queen. Loved the emotions portrayed in this film. Maybe the ending should have been kept open without the last fight and continue this in next part. This should have been a superhero film about grief, with no actions fights. They serve no purpose to what they were trying to achieve. But nonetheless a wonderful goodbye to Chadwick.

Rarely you will see films like this. So strong, poetic and emotional. The stories told through two ways. One from the futuristic place who is narrating and one happening in front of ypur eyes. Very few words are spoken in the latter but with very high impact. The music, the acying, expressions, story are so bold and real. It is equivalent of stabbing yourself in the heart repeatedly. We all see the progress as betterment but if it goes against the nature then is it really progress? It takes courage to standup to things and for some it maybe burial but it leaves people with belief they can standup against the colonialism and other things which are suppressing them, hence the resurrection. The colonialism destroyed everywhere they go and even change the names to rewrite the history. But that wont be last. Because we carry our ancestors with the stories. They will live till we have these stories.

This film is like poetry. Good visuals, strong dialogues, slow and consistent pacing, a good story. The letters are spears to your hearts. The film about not selling your own conscience, no matter the cost. Too sad. I dont like the cut scenes, in most of the cases when characters are talking in continous shot, there is a cut to different angle. Apart from that, too much unsaid words spoken via visual imagery. This story tells us a lot about the people as a crowd. And the same hair style even in jail, is something that bothered me. You could have shown him, thinner. Lots of missed chances. If it is visually good make it realistic too. Everyone thinks of this film as what happened to Franz but more of the evil befalls her partner, Fani. It is always same with the war, the stories of women gets unacknowledged. She plays even a stronger character. Justifies her emotions and everything. Wonderful.

It should be illegal for films to be this sad. It hits you and then keeps you punching. We all have some quirk of ourselves which makes us different from others. But what happens after we die? What happens to all the love that has no place to go? What happens of our loved ones? Do they know we are waiting for them? This is a ghost story. The spritual dimension, who just keeps on waiting. A ghost is real and gets out of this dimension when he realises they are not coming back. A sad part. But there is another way too. The ghost transcend space and time. The grief eating of pie by Rooney Mara was a spare to the heart. So few words in this film but the weight of the lingering silence. Wow.

Left so much to be achieved. Could have been far more better. I dont think it was delivered the justice it promised. But great female cast, strong characters, both physically and mentally. Nice cultural vibes. The dances, rituals and beliefs were so beautiful. The story lacks the thrust. The focus shifts from slave trade to personal past redemption. This should have been the side plot but instead was pushed to main plot, which I think led to its downfall as a film. We always require strong leaders to lead who have the vision to see things. Fight scenes were not that good. Lots of things which were let down. I think white colonialism was shown not as cruel, evil, wicked as it was/is. This was the biggest let down of all. Women warriors are shown strong but not smart, except few. And most of them were shown weaker compared to men. I felt that was insulting to the women warriors. Good acting and visuals though. Some scenes were too emotional and personal.

Beautiful beautiful film. Wonderful acting. Florence pugh is brilliant once again. The sound in the background just complements the story. Good story, hooks you up. I do know few people who would just staft and close it midway because they dont have the patience anymore. They want everything ready to be served. But for this film, the wait and stretching the story works and then it hits you in the face with the reveal. Happy ending to the story. Superstition and the things we dont understand. A lot about grief and how it strengthens you. She is not ready to lose another child. What constitutes a family, a mother, a father? I dont think so. Blood is not the only reason to be a family. It takes more. Naivety of people and not having an open mind to the things they dont understand. Look closer you will see everything. The set design seems a bit wierd to me. The long dresses covered in mud was cherry on top. Highly recommend...

Horrifying. I would not recommend it to someone who doesnt like horror. I dont. But still I gave it a chance. Not my cup of tea. Bad lighting. This is so wrong on many fronts. Tells a lot about a place like detroit and the bad neighbourhood places. Some people are inherently evil and some develop the evil nature in themselves. Everything wrong that can happen at an airbnb, happens in this film. Strectched it a lot. Could have been a lot better if the film was edited better, less run time. The people behaving naively. Story could have been better. We get the background and the story, but that wasnt the way to put it forward. Ending was too dramatic. Feels like the writer is living in a happy place and writing this worse of an ending.

The perfect anti-war film. What does war do, nothing but fill the egoes of the some old men while millions of young people die and suffer. You will be too emotional, the brutalities of war and how it changes the people involved in it. Fully focussed on the war front. It is not what young people expect from war but soon they linger in it. The decisions and the paths they have to take. We never know what is going on inside a person but kindness matters. It is the only thing that matters. The inhumane behaviour and lost of all moral senses which war inflicts on the people. Beautiful visuals, some harrowing deaths and music bangs, repititive. I would have chose the eerie quiet music, that would have been more appropriate. But never the less a wonderful film, which will take years from your life as does the war.

Wow. The performance in this film by all the actors in phenomenal. Wonderful beautiful visuals. The landscapes of the island are too beautiful and it hands a hold on you, like the way water has on an island. The story and its parallels with the war. The fight on nothing and it costs both sides a great deal of pain and misery. Additionally, someone totaly innocent gets in the crossfire. This is the same what happens with the fight of two best friends. It doesnt matter, who wins, or not. It is the friendship, honesty, trust, niceness we lost. Sometimes I think it is streched a bit but then so are the wars. So it is a perfect metaphor for that. The dread of not becoming known, successful or someone who will remember you after death. It is real. But to have a frightening thing to guide you to reach the goal. We forget, it is the journey that matters not the destination. The sisters story is having a great arc. Knowing you want better for your life. But to leave the homeland you have to left somethung behind. Even if it is something you love. Highly recommend this to my film mutuals. Not for everyone though.

The typical textbook story of arrogant but good a heart, always getting his way til trouble catches onto him. Gets humiliated and turns everything around. This is the same pattern which we still see going again and again. Personally, I found it too misogynstic, even at the end. Only one strong woman was shown and still making fun of woman legends. Good action choreography and too many fights. It disrespects a lot of trained fighters and that is something just to fill the character arc. This could have been so much better. Even with so many good locations in the background, pretty basic sets and production design. Maybe budget issues. Left a lot to be achieved.

Crime is real. If you want to know a person, you can know him by the comoany he keeps. Production design. I like it. Harvey Keitel is great in this. All of the things that are happening just piles up like the interest in a loan. We complicate things which are not even worth. And then we womder why does the things get out of hands. It is the small things piling up. Simple effective and to the point. Some may say it is not possible but it is. And remember, "Honorable men go with honorable men." The different way each character behaves adds to the multitude of this film. Good acting and well though set design can make a good film better. Martin Sorcese and his love for this genre after escaping almost being shot in the car. I am thankful for that.

Mind blown. Satoshi kon is brilliant. Wow. The way this film is the ridicule of the society among all other things. So dark yet so fulfilling, just hits all the spots. This is one of those films that doesnt let you wander off, if you do, you will be lost. Good use of reflections, love those. Was it all the script or was it the real life? It is for you to decide. The ridicule of society, we ridicule people who do things which are not deemed respectable and yet we are the ones who consume the same media. The creeps men are and things they do just to make situations worse for women. The creepy obsessed stalker every women has to deal with. Always remember the ones you are working with are not your friends. Keep your work and friends separated. Be professional, everyone has an illusion, dont trust these illusions. For the film, it will leave you shocked to the core. Wonderful. Highly recommend.

Why are the majority of the famous people; pathetic, megalomaniac, sociopathic and always having a worse personal life. Is it the way to achieve the greatness in ones field, or is this the way they gatekeep it. If so, is it worth sacrificing your conscience. The acting in this film is so good. The reflection shots were great and the dream-like sequences of screams and sound just adds to the beauty. Cate Blanchett fills it with her charm and charisma. Very few actors can be in the scene with her and deliver a head to head performance, Noémie Merlant does that so gracefully. Strong female characters in this film and the way they capture this male dominated industry. Hooks you up with the film from the get go. Lies burn the bridges until you are caught in your own web with no way out, just one, burn everythung down you achieved with the lies. The toxic behavior in the workplace, be it the sexual favors for rising the ranks or the emotional manipulation. Women have always been abused in work for gains in ranks (mostly by men) now if the women in power are also doing that to other women, have we really achieved anything. Maybe the only way out is to burn the system to ground and rebuilt it. One point to end. Kindness will set you free.

My first Godard film. Wow. I am impressed. The things he does. The thing I like about old directors is when the just stick to one frame and dont go to and fro for the conversation. For me personally, it gets more meaning out of the conversation. Lots of things are happening in this one. Thus is about french youth and their views on love, jobs, abortion, relationships, friends, crushes, wars, world, and everything in between. As the title states, we see a lot of things for male as well as female perspective. How intrinsically we are different from each other. The things men dont care about and vice versa. As someone said, the new wave french films shows how the young people has assignment due on mondah and revolution on the weekends. This perfectly fits the description. The apple eating sequence was just pure cinema. I was not listening anything. I just fell in love at that moment. Maybe on rewatch I will notice the things I missed the first time. It will surely get better.

This film has better visuals, shots than most of the films now. Beautifully shot. I like it a lot. I thought the audio delay was due to some error until I found this whole film is as listened by the ears of locke. So always nice to put these things in films and then notice these things. The penultimate shot was absolutely beautiful, and achieving that was no less marvel. We all get modified by the experiences we live, we are not the same person. Beliefs can change but can the biases change? But it all leaves the question. Who is the passenger? Was it locke or the girl. Maybe I think it is all of us, who experience this film as a travellor. Whatever a narrator narrates, is it biased through his own views or is it unbiased. When the reporter narrates his version of the story, he believes that to be the truth and then he lives the same narration and finds it is not same. There is more to it than what we see. Do we really know people? For some people even the lifetime is not enough and for some even a day is more than enough.

We often question what we donot understand. Some things have strong foundations and deep rooted answers while others are based on changes all over the generations. This film focusses on such an event which they want to capture, but fate has something else decided. Idle mind is a workshop of the devil... as they remain there, they find things there which they are not used to. They need business to withhold their demons, they have occupied their minds with day today things and dont focus on themselves. While the other person tries to fit it with the culture, he also finds the difficult. This contrasting response to the same situation shows how much we sre invested in a thing. We want everything fast and easy, but things require time. Although I found the man creepy at times but maybe it is due to the fact the people there are too simple. He didnot got what he wanted but he got something different. The character development was kinda ok from when he first arrived. If only you look and interact, you will see beauty all around. And the poetry spread all over the film, was just perfect. Although I do believe in the afterlife, but everyone has their own perspective and making a film is about all those things. Give the audiencr a different perspective through the eyes of different people. Good simple visuals, characteristic of Abbas Kiarostami.

Comfort. Visuals. Lighting. Perfect. I checked this was shot on a soundstage, only if this was shot in a real location, then it would have been even better. The visuals are mesmerising. Every thing is well lit. Beautiful sound of insects continously in the background. If this is not the comfort film I dont know what is. In asia, it is the woman who ties the family together, keeps the house from falling apart, and men are often scroundrels. Yet no blame falls on men. Kindness matters. Every moment of the servants could have been hell but she showed empathy. Wonderful. The most I liked from this film was the shots of comparisons, one in frame and other in background. It wa srecyrrent throughout the film. Same children but different lives due to the class. Every scene is enjoyment in itself. The piano scene was the most pivotal scene in the film, with her fiance it was tense while with the servant it was calm. This carries a lot of weight. The only problem I saw is that papaya is considered for anti-pregnancy, but when she put the papaya seed in the food, next scene shows her pregnant. Maybe some other seed would have worked here. The last sequence was too romantic.

Why does it always leads to achieve great things in other fields, people abandon many things like families, kids, morals, conscience and many other important things. If this takes this much sacrifice, is it worth it. Does fame allow that kind of relief that it is worth it. Maybe or maybe not. It always sadden us to know that the people you love and look upto are not morally good. But who decides these morals. Maybe we should never meet our idols or learn about them. Well who knows? The first half deals with this. It is always the beauty and silence that maybe makes us sane or turns us into our absolute demons which we cannot handle. The boundries between the stories and reality dwindle. We can talk a lot about the conversations they have. The morals they question; Infidelity, cheating, relations, love, sensuality and others. Good visuals. Vicky narrating things, is so soothing for me personally. I can listen to her for hours and hours. Beautiful visuals.

Brilliant. The best episode of the series has to be the final one. Not a dull moment. The game of who is sauron, all of them are sauron was really wild in this episode. The reveal was well played. It was one of the important things to keep the conversation flowing outside of the episodes. Galadriel is his only and biggest opposition. Harfoots show a braver heart. The stranger reveal was well played. The reverse reveal was fantastic. Always believed in him to be on the good side. The scene with galadriel and halbrand was the best one, both with respect to visuals, dialogues, and its importance to the series. The characters they play and the implications on the middle earth, this trope is what I live for. More of this please. Now, towards Elrond, he is wiser and important, he says more with less. The sacrifice has to be there for the greater good. No matter the cost. Also, it is really evil and intelligent for them to show us that last scene of mount doom with sauron, leaving us wait for another season. The song of rings at the end was the cherry on cake. Also like it the way it was played, reminded me of the song, The house of rising sun from the film the endless. Perfect ending to the show and leaving on the cliffhanger. Wonderful.

Bold. Strong. Efficient. Beautiful. Harrowing. Wonderful. And all the other good adjectives out there. Words wont do any justice to the experience and journey taken by this film. Frances is brilliant as always. The portrayal of emotions is just outright beautiful yet you can feel the pain. Good acting overall by the cast. The development of story, the pacing, the hurdles, music, everything gets along. There is hope afterall. Whenever the film is about the process of grief. It brings me back to the question. How to actually process it. Yes the grief was not our mistake/own doing, but how we deal with the process of grief is. It doesnt solve anything for the process. Different people grieve differently. How is one better than the other. The regrets people have, not listening, not talking last time, saying things they dont mean, not seeing and everything that happened, it doesnt help but further adds to the griever. But can we forget. Maybe time helps dwindle some of the memories, but things like these, we cannot. Hope is there afterall. Maybe in a better world these things wont happen ( the justice system and the police system needs to be burned to the ground then raising it back from the ashes, because the current system doesnt work it favours evil). It does matter how we raise our kids. Kids donot know evil, racism, bigotry, but they learn from us. Worth every bit of time.