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What Is a Woman? (2022)
A must see dodumentary
It is a marvelous documentary and it is NOT anti Trans hatred.
It is a very fair documentary in its approach. Matt Walsh walks around and asks very basic questions about gender - totally fair questions including the "what is a woman" question. The answers he gets, the way people conduct themselves is very important knowledge. I will never forget the interview with the university professor, the healtcare provider and one person that transitioned.
The documentary unfolds its strength in Matt Walsh's questioning style he let's people speak but throws in here and there a basic question. No Gotcha questions just basic questions. By this the topic really unfolds sometimes funny and often sad or horrific.
I can not remember a documentary i found so well made and important to watch.
If you haven't watched this you can simply not debate the topic of trans and sex change really a must see.
PS: After reading a lot of the 1 star reviews, i must say they are quite dishonest in what they say about the documentary. For example that the documentary would cut interviews to make People look stupid. NO I HATE documentaries like that, the people can absolutely speak freely in this documentary, he lets them answer that is the beauty of it...
It is a very fair documentary in its approach. Matt Walsh walks around and asks very basic questions about gender - totally fair questions including the "what is a woman" question. The answers he gets, the way people conduct themselves is very important knowledge. I will never forget the interview with the university professor, the healtcare provider and one person that transitioned.
The documentary unfolds its strength in Matt Walsh's questioning style he let's people speak but throws in here and there a basic question. No Gotcha questions just basic questions. By this the topic really unfolds sometimes funny and often sad or horrific.
I can not remember a documentary i found so well made and important to watch.
If you haven't watched this you can simply not debate the topic of trans and sex change really a must see.
PS: After reading a lot of the 1 star reviews, i must say they are quite dishonest in what they say about the documentary. For example that the documentary would cut interviews to make People look stupid. NO I HATE documentaries like that, the people can absolutely speak freely in this documentary, he lets them answer that is the beauty of it...
Behind the Curve (2018)
This documentation made me mad
I have a very very different take on this doumentation. It made me mad watching the scientists of doing such a bad job (OR the filming crew of this documentation to not give one 2min to do so) to not be able to deliver a concise convincing 2min elevator pitch of why the world is round.
With scientists like that only smuggishly grining no one will be won over. A scientist that just arrogantly smiles implying how "stupid these people are" is actually very hard to take for me.
A person that is an expert in a field with studying it for a decade and is not able to present in TV short very convincing elevator pitch is an complete F for me. With weak scientists as this we will be in a world of trouble in the next 20 years and i would completely put the fault on the scientists!! (yes your that read right).
A scientist that refers to "eryone knows that" is such a loser to me its hard to express in words, since it expresses the same unscientific dogmatic thinking they wanted to criticize in the first place.. You need to be able to "earn your pay" and if you can't convince a person after studying a field for 10 Years, maybe your knowledge is not worth a penny in the real world.
With scientists like that only smuggishly grining no one will be won over. A scientist that just arrogantly smiles implying how "stupid these people are" is actually very hard to take for me.
A person that is an expert in a field with studying it for a decade and is not able to present in TV short very convincing elevator pitch is an complete F for me. With weak scientists as this we will be in a world of trouble in the next 20 years and i would completely put the fault on the scientists!! (yes your that read right).
A scientist that refers to "eryone knows that" is such a loser to me its hard to express in words, since it expresses the same unscientific dogmatic thinking they wanted to criticize in the first place.. You need to be able to "earn your pay" and if you can't convince a person after studying a field for 10 Years, maybe your knowledge is not worth a penny in the real world.
Unacknowledged (2017)
A new world record for unsubstantiated claims per hour
After 3min i thought i had to stop watching this. So much exaggeration boasting and souping up stuff.
I then kept watching this and it feels like reading a book from scientology, the motto is: If there aren't 200 unsubstantiated claims per hour its not a real documentary right?
For me as a more scientific person the answer is: no. I mean i would even be the audience for this. I could totally believe that there has been contact from outer space, that the government wants to keep it secret. I even believe that mainstream media news is manipulated and biased.
But this "documentary" is just complete bs. To keep up the speed of 200 unsubstantiated claims/h it is a total "throw and go" attitude. They throw 1 sentence with an outrageous claim from the person they interview, then they immediatley cut and bring either some quote from 30-60 years ago from a competely different person that seems to back it up or some unrelated video clip from a UFO sighting. Then 20seconds later they throw the next wild claim and Dr. Greer tells always: Obviously, important, the future of human kind, what could be more important....
It would be like a person walking around in the house throwing a handgranade into the kitchen: booom. Cut. New handgranade. They never dig into one thing a person says deeper for an extended period of time (And what the people tell would be REALLY worth diggin into). But most of the time it is literally 1 Sentence (!) hectic cut new one outrageous one liner, and go.
The same goes with Dr. Greer and the classified documents he presents: Always 1 (!) Sentence from the document and cut. One example of this would be from a supposedly classified document some canadian government agency from 40-60 years ago: "The matter is more important to them then the nuclear bomb". Cut. It's is nowhere specified what "the matter" is, who the person is that claims that, what the title and purpose of this document is and so on. Dr Greer would then say something like "wow imagine to keep the contacts from outer space a secret was of of higher importance then developing the nuclear bomb. It is obvious what an importance this has.
I more and more had the feeling of "I doubt that i would come to the same conclusion as him if i read this document". I more and more had the feeling i am watching psychological fantasies of a troubled soul.
As with every conspiracy documentary "them" becomes a huge problem. But this documentary tops them all on this too. In the first half of the documentary it is NOT the government since the president is not allowed to know this. It is not the military generals since they don't have the clearance to get the information on the UFO conspiracy. But its not really the corporations since they are dependent on the money they get from gorvernment. The explanation the offer is of course 1 Sentence: "A group of individuals that at one point of time was related to the government."
Wow. How precise. With real revelations like from Edward Snowden it is always super clear who them is: the PRISM Program run by NSA together with Booz Allen and other companies, there address is sunset blvd....
With real revelations the big story is beeing told with a "little one" like the PRISM program, but in great detail and explanation. Not so in this docu, detail and preciseness is the enemy..
Speaking of Edward Snowden: This is the one thing in the docu that i could judge for myself. And they completely misrepresented this. To back up the claim that it was possible for the US government to keep something secret for so long, they claimed that till the revelations of Ed Snowden no one knew the NSA even existed (!) Not the scope of the programs, the mere existence. LOL. Roughly 20 years ago one of the first things i looked for in the internet was NSA after i had seen the movie with Will Smith.
The good thing about this movie is, if you believe Dr. Greer you get in 100min a complete explanation of everything from the last 60 years. Why Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe died, why economy is tanking what's wrong with democracy (i partly even agree here), the state of technology, free energy source, why it is beeing surpressed, the role of the church and so much more!
The bad part of the movie is that it really reminds me of this Kevin Spacey movie K-PAX only in real, Dr. Greer is even a "traumatologist"...
I then kept watching this and it feels like reading a book from scientology, the motto is: If there aren't 200 unsubstantiated claims per hour its not a real documentary right?
For me as a more scientific person the answer is: no. I mean i would even be the audience for this. I could totally believe that there has been contact from outer space, that the government wants to keep it secret. I even believe that mainstream media news is manipulated and biased.
But this "documentary" is just complete bs. To keep up the speed of 200 unsubstantiated claims/h it is a total "throw and go" attitude. They throw 1 sentence with an outrageous claim from the person they interview, then they immediatley cut and bring either some quote from 30-60 years ago from a competely different person that seems to back it up or some unrelated video clip from a UFO sighting. Then 20seconds later they throw the next wild claim and Dr. Greer tells always: Obviously, important, the future of human kind, what could be more important....
It would be like a person walking around in the house throwing a handgranade into the kitchen: booom. Cut. New handgranade. They never dig into one thing a person says deeper for an extended period of time (And what the people tell would be REALLY worth diggin into). But most of the time it is literally 1 Sentence (!) hectic cut new one outrageous one liner, and go.
The same goes with Dr. Greer and the classified documents he presents: Always 1 (!) Sentence from the document and cut. One example of this would be from a supposedly classified document some canadian government agency from 40-60 years ago: "The matter is more important to them then the nuclear bomb". Cut. It's is nowhere specified what "the matter" is, who the person is that claims that, what the title and purpose of this document is and so on. Dr Greer would then say something like "wow imagine to keep the contacts from outer space a secret was of of higher importance then developing the nuclear bomb. It is obvious what an importance this has.
I more and more had the feeling of "I doubt that i would come to the same conclusion as him if i read this document". I more and more had the feeling i am watching psychological fantasies of a troubled soul.
As with every conspiracy documentary "them" becomes a huge problem. But this documentary tops them all on this too. In the first half of the documentary it is NOT the government since the president is not allowed to know this. It is not the military generals since they don't have the clearance to get the information on the UFO conspiracy. But its not really the corporations since they are dependent on the money they get from gorvernment. The explanation the offer is of course 1 Sentence: "A group of individuals that at one point of time was related to the government."
Wow. How precise. With real revelations like from Edward Snowden it is always super clear who them is: the PRISM Program run by NSA together with Booz Allen and other companies, there address is sunset blvd....
With real revelations the big story is beeing told with a "little one" like the PRISM program, but in great detail and explanation. Not so in this docu, detail and preciseness is the enemy..
Speaking of Edward Snowden: This is the one thing in the docu that i could judge for myself. And they completely misrepresented this. To back up the claim that it was possible for the US government to keep something secret for so long, they claimed that till the revelations of Ed Snowden no one knew the NSA even existed (!) Not the scope of the programs, the mere existence. LOL. Roughly 20 years ago one of the first things i looked for in the internet was NSA after i had seen the movie with Will Smith.
The good thing about this movie is, if you believe Dr. Greer you get in 100min a complete explanation of everything from the last 60 years. Why Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe died, why economy is tanking what's wrong with democracy (i partly even agree here), the state of technology, free energy source, why it is beeing surpressed, the role of the church and so much more!
The bad part of the movie is that it really reminds me of this Kevin Spacey movie K-PAX only in real, Dr. Greer is even a "traumatologist"...
Shame (2011)
Fantastic psychological case study of addiction
When I see the other reviews with 1-3 Stars with reasonings in it like: The main characters are not likable... The movie is dull, trite... No character development, no happy ending, not enough dialogue... It just makes me mad.
THIS IS NOT A FEELGOOD MOVIE WITH A HAPPY ENDING, NEITHER WILL IT ENTERTAIN YOU WITH OVER THE TOP 'ROCK BOTTOM ACTION' - DON'T WATCH IT IF YOU SECRETLY WANT ONE OF THESE. It is a harsh, sad and sometimes emotional brutal movie and it will make you feel awkward while watching it. THAT'S what happens when you just let the canera run to watch how an addict goes about his daily business. . The movie is not offering a solution leading to a happy end it is more watching a a functional addict with an office job how he at first copes seemingly well with his life. When his also damaged sister arrives, everything starts getting more and more cracks.
It is a masterpiece of a movie about the rooot causes of addiction: surpression of feelings/trauma acted out brilliantly. The study of the main character and the chraracter of his sister Sissy is pure gold and 100% spot on. The dynamic of their relationship is perfectly captured, which makes it hard to watch.
But let me clear one thing: I never felt that the movie is beeing hopeless for the sake of beeing hopeless. Development is happening between brother and sister. Just more realistically how change between two people from a dysfunctional family would happen. And not this "booom we won the lottery all our problems are gone let's party all night on an caribbean island" way.
What the movie plays with brilliantly is the interconnections of the main ingredients of sex addiction: shame, rage, loneliness, Trauma and deep emotional pain, beeing the cool guy on the surface but having huge walls, avoiding intimacy, mechanical and dull repetitions combined with some form of discipline to create a function al mask.
I think If you like intense psychological case studies right out of the clinic you will love the movie. Or if you come from a rough childhood, have a case in your family or have a professional or some other connection to the topic of childhood trauma/dysfunctional family it is for you too.
Only thing i would change is the title, it is about shame but even more about a Mask and Pain.
THIS IS NOT A FEELGOOD MOVIE WITH A HAPPY ENDING, NEITHER WILL IT ENTERTAIN YOU WITH OVER THE TOP 'ROCK BOTTOM ACTION' - DON'T WATCH IT IF YOU SECRETLY WANT ONE OF THESE. It is a harsh, sad and sometimes emotional brutal movie and it will make you feel awkward while watching it. THAT'S what happens when you just let the canera run to watch how an addict goes about his daily business. . The movie is not offering a solution leading to a happy end it is more watching a a functional addict with an office job how he at first copes seemingly well with his life. When his also damaged sister arrives, everything starts getting more and more cracks.
It is a masterpiece of a movie about the rooot causes of addiction: surpression of feelings/trauma acted out brilliantly. The study of the main character and the chraracter of his sister Sissy is pure gold and 100% spot on. The dynamic of their relationship is perfectly captured, which makes it hard to watch.
But let me clear one thing: I never felt that the movie is beeing hopeless for the sake of beeing hopeless. Development is happening between brother and sister. Just more realistically how change between two people from a dysfunctional family would happen. And not this "booom we won the lottery all our problems are gone let's party all night on an caribbean island" way.
What the movie plays with brilliantly is the interconnections of the main ingredients of sex addiction: shame, rage, loneliness, Trauma and deep emotional pain, beeing the cool guy on the surface but having huge walls, avoiding intimacy, mechanical and dull repetitions combined with some form of discipline to create a function al mask.
I think If you like intense psychological case studies right out of the clinic you will love the movie. Or if you come from a rough childhood, have a case in your family or have a professional or some other connection to the topic of childhood trauma/dysfunctional family it is for you too.
Only thing i would change is the title, it is about shame but even more about a Mask and Pain.
Die dunkle Seite des Mondes (2015)
Pointless and disappointing in the End
I must say i really enjoyed the first 2/3 of the movie: its atmospheric and the story-line advances fast and the movie really captivates you. But then it all went wrong, that in the end i would not recommend to watch this movie. What happened? For me a story-driven movie like this one needs to have a somewhat plausible end. The story advances to more and more to unrealistic heights, which makes one ask oneself "i am really curious with what "magical trick" at the end everything will make sense". The movie builds up tension and more tension for the end and then the movie more or less just stops. Its like really good sex that builds up more and more and then it just stops without an orgasm: leaving you unsatisfied and frustrated...