Salt burn did not hold together for me and i thought the cringy moments which were extreme and frequent were gratuitous. There seemed to be no sequence or lead up to the twists and turns of the main character. It's as if the filmmaker had an idea but didn't have a deep enough understanding if human psychology to really draw me in and pull it off. Suddenly he was doing something i could barely watch.... and i just didn't believe it. It's was gorgeous, but it seemed all surface. I compared it to The Talented Mr Ripely. A far better film that leads up slowly. Giving us hints and and insight into Leonardo Di Caprio character Thus film did none of that. Frankly i really did not like this film i gave it 4 stars for the visuals and some good acting.
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5 Reviews
The Andy Warhol Diaries
(2022)
Whats not being said
13 March 2023
I moved to NYC in 1990, two years after Warhol died, but a lot of his entourage was still around, and most of them carried the air of exclusivity that surrounded the myth of Warhol, Yet, I found most of these people to be rather vacuous, And so too Warhols diaries. Though perhaps its a mistake to expect someone clearly a ground breaking genuis to have be able to express thier brilliance in every aspect of thier lives, I was shocked by how little he had t say in his diaries. There was not a hint of introspection -not of himself, or his close friends or of the world about him, and any attempts to wonder, in his meanderings., were brief and generic, as if he was just parroting something he had heard, and that sounded introspective. Instead they are filled with self pity, and vanities, and sometimes just incredibly mean. I agree with the art critic Robert Hughes, that his work is about scanning, not gazing ( think thats what he said), and yet I find Warhols early work mesmerizing. Perhaps part of it, other than his brilliant sense of style and boldness, was that he gave one permission to embrace and even adjulate the passive, easy narcissistic indulgences of consumer, voyeristic society and perhaps even still call yourself an artist- similiar to Trump giving permission to a repressed fundamentalist Christian culture to express their true selves,- to throw off their moral impositions-which and reveal thier teeth- and still call themselves Christians. But even way back then, long before I saw this documentry, I felt that Warhol, for all his early brilliance, infused the art world with something very dark and mean and antithetical to making art. Of course, we don't speak poorly of the dead, but it felt a little like the Emperor with no clothes.
The Night Manager
(2016–2025)
Really? Yikes.
30 December 2020
I agree w Hugh Laurie, that he should have played Jonathan pine, - he's too sympathetic, not psycho enough for roper. I thought Hitten sucked. Not sly not mysterious enough. There was not much intriguing about him
At all. . what was it that saw in him. Sure- I mean shore- . It had all the tricks- mb We should give Carrie for the twists and turns not sure cause I have not read the book. but really. Did he do it for. love? A spy casting long deep loving looks. It was ultimately a dime store novel in its production. Even Elizabeth could not surpass the corny lines and lame dialogue. The editing was crap. No wonder Carre died 2 years later- eeek. Obviously just my opinion.
The Trial
(2019– )
a disturbing thread
13 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
It really was engaging and the twists and turns climaxed very well in the final episodes of this first season. The acting was very good, espicially I thought Camilla Filippi ( LInda) was excellent- but I only gave it five stars for two reasons- one was because a great story keeps your attention because its believable, but I could not believe that a brilliant prosecutor would allow herself to take a case that she was so closely involved with- being the birth mother of the victim. Come on. Are we suppose to buy that she could not see that she was motivated by guilt, or at least a deep concern for a child she had abandoned, and how wrong , or just how stupid that was? That was just ridiculous from the get go. Also how could these sso called brilliant lawyers be so clueless as to not investigate the murder weapon. That was totally overlooked, till the very end. Come now. The second problem I had and what was so disturbing for me was that the prosecutor, the protagonist has made a series of terrible decisions resulting in a ruined life as an outcast. Were we suppose to feel that the ending ( I wont spoil it) was going to redeem her life? That was disturbing, and not in an interesting way. There was nothing cathartic about that- it was very depressing.
Tommaso
(2019)
nope sorry
6 June 2020
Like another reviewer said, there is no character development,. It seems rather pretentious. What do the disjointed "metaphysical" scenes have to do with anything. Are they suppose to imply that the protaganist,is experiencing some kind of divine madness? I was not convinced.
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