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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Too much selfrightousness
There's certainly a case to bring against the companies that pushed opioiids as first line pain treatments and I recall, being a medical trainee in the nineties, how the storyline was, that "opioids don't cause addiction so long as you use them for pain".
As a European anesthesiologist I find the US tendency of apparently using opioids as first line treatment after routine surgery also at fault.
Doctors have to have been massively complicit in this.
Then again as the film freely reports Nan Goldin was very much into drugs the entire time before, so it's not surprising that she should develop an opioid addiction given the chance to do so.
What really became too much for me was when the film goes into the AIDS epidemic in the 80ies. The utter selfrightousness of victims/Activists blaming the goverment of being responsible for their deaths I found disingenious.
A recent Nature or Science article reported that AIIDS has been in humans in central Africa for probably 100 years but on such a small scale that no one took notice.
It was only when it reached mainly gay men using sex like any other drug in the west that it blew up the way it did. I'm not passing judgement on what drugs people take, but please, don't blame others.
Äkta människor (2012)
Interesting premise, bad execution
We're in Scandinavia, but every second character, and all the good guys, has to have an immigrant background. This wokism invalidates the art.
After a bit of reading I decided to quit in episode two.
We're in Scandinavia, but every second character, and all the good guys, has to have an immigrant background. This wokism invalidates the art.
After a bit of reading I decided to quit in episode two.
We're in Scandinavia, but every second character, and all the good guys, has to have an immigrant background. This wokism invalidates the art.
After a bit of reading I decided to quit in episode two.
Russkiy kovcheg (2002)
Very boring to me and my co-viewer
It's happened before and it will undoubtedly happen again, that I go and watch a movie with raving reviews, only to find myself very bored and wondering why am I not getting it? I usually find I agree with the direction the reviews go in, not this time and I knew the film would be somewhat experimental. I didn't understand what the movie was trying to say. To me there didn't seem to be a point. If the aim was to make a kind of documentary about the Hermitage I could think of ways in which that could have been done in a much more interesting fashion. The big costumed ball scene didn't do anything for me either.
As an aside, watching the credits, I couldn't help but wonder why it is that at least three German authorities had financially supported the making of this Russian film?
Halbe Treppe (2002)
comical and powerful
A film I almost didn't go to watch, because the theme didn't seem appealing enough. In the end I was very glad, I had gone, since while perhaps not perfect, I found it to be very realistic and close up which at least for me made it very touching. As an aside you get a good look at some aspects of the former East Germany 10 years on, as the story is situated there.
Mies vailla menneisyyttä (2002)
that "great film" was lost on me
I somehow didn't get it. I found the film plainly boring, almost to the point of wanting to leave. Also, couldn't one try and be a bit more realistic about the medical side of it? The protagonist gets a beating that is incompatible with standing up again. The hospitalscene is badly enacted. But I suppose I'm missing it again: realism wasn't the point. Now I know why I always half consciously avoided Kaurismaki films: it must have been instinct... (assuming the others are similar).