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Kiseijû: Sei no kakuritsu (2014)
The best anime I've seen in years perhaps in my life
This one started a bit like most anime, teenagers that find they are "the hero" by accident.
But it evolved so fast to something much bigger than that. Most of the protagonists grow, mature they gain dimension an profundity.
This anime doesn't pull any punches it plucks your heart's strings and it hits them HARD.
Shinichi is an amazing protagonist as is Murano, the support cast the antagonists the detectives also play an important and relevant part in all of this but by far, beyond her small part in the story, my favourite character was Kana.
Basilisk, afrosamurai, Shigurui, attack on titan, akame ga kill and berserk are amongst my all time favourites... but Parasyte is head and shoulders above the rest.
The Killing (2011)
I do not recall being so invested since... ever
Just finished watching season 1, I do not know how to feel, how to process how to accept everything that happened.
That is probably the highest praise I can give the series. Linden and Holder are my favorite on screen duo since X-Files and even if the two series can't be compared I think these two are my all time favorite leads.
Production, script, acting... amazing, investing, and so unsatisfying at the end.
I am on the fence whether I can withstand the rest of the seasons as this one was almost too much for me.
Kudos to the original danish series and kudos to the adaptation this is, at least for me, TV at its finest.
Devoured (2012)
Out of left field! The more I ponder the more I like it.
I have just finished viewing this movie, saw the tailer in youtube and it seemed like a standard scary movie for a Friday night, you know just to pass time.
You see this nice movie start the grind of someone that is reliving everyday the grind, like her on very own in-life purgatory trying to achieve her goal.
But days come in and go by and you start to see the toll on the character, so close and so far away from her goal.
The movie borders on slow and repetitive but aided by an amazing lead and intelligent script and nice cinematography and score one decides to soldier on and keep on watching.
A few minutes before the ending you feel it is just a regular zombie, haunted house movie with a predictable end... but just as we come full circle at the end the movie, all the questions you had, all the inconsistencies you thought to have picked through the movie just explain themselves out in an absolutely amazing way.
The grind, the repetitiveness of every day, the sympathy for the lead they are answered and in the end it comes up as a reward to the viewer.
20 minutes before the movie closed I was just thinking to myself, nice little art movie but pretty doesn't make for substance... 4/10... at the end... 8/10... how many movies do you know that not only do not drop the ball at the end much less raise the bar of the movie to a whole other level?
Recommended without a doubt... and if I use JeremyJahns' ratings this is "Definitely worth buying on bluray"