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Ripley (2024)
Sometimes style works to enhance substance
A slower more nuanced take of movie version featuring Matt Damon with older characters approaching middle years yet aimlessly drifting through life.
Actors are appropriately cast but 2 leads could easily switch roles and it would still work as both demonstrate subtlety of interpersonal dynamics, human fragility, and how we're all products of our environment.
The androgynous looking actor playing Freddie lends an interesting twist as to why he's friends with Dickie when theyre clearly very different and seemingly have nothing in common aside from wealth.
Shot in black/white the absence of color can be viewed as stylistic, but in this case it removes distraction of surrounding beauty forcing viewers to focus entirely on character interaction.
San Guo ji mi zhi qian long zai yuan (2018)
Humorous at times but rather repetitive
After watching Story of Yanxi Palace, Secret of the Three Kingdoms seems to plod along while the acting is competent but suffers from the youthfulness of the main characters.
The Mandalorian: Chapter 9: The Marshal (2020)
9.1...seriously?
This had to be one of the dumbest episodes so far and that's not saying much considering the highly overrated episodes of the previous season.
One thing the show has going for it is maintaining the 70s low tech grittiness of the original Star Wars series. Without that nostalgic quality, the storyline doesnt have much going for it.
Succession (2018)
Glorification of wealth and sociopathic behavior
That so many find this show entertaining reveals how sociopathic behavior has become rewarded and glorified in western society especially the US.
Anyone can add their own spin on the psychological complexity and motivations behind each character, but the reality is, they are all driven by selfishness, narcissism, and greed.
A society that glorifies such behavior essentially prioritizes individual desires above all else and at the expense of others hence the social decay that is occurring in US and other western countries amid the coronavirus pandemic.