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Gornyi luk (2022)
Flawlessly put together
This movie pulls off a miracle of sorts by hitting every single element (acting, photography, casting, above all the *writing* & directing). If this is what Kazakh cinema looks like, it is gorgeous.
The vast geography of the nearly barren landscape dominates the simple simple lives occupying a tiny place in it, subsisting.
It's western movie 'style' of sorts, the visuals, without the shooting, near the kazakh - china border. The horse travels are here the modern "motorized trailer" shuttling across the big landscape. Beautiful.
It unfolds so deliberately, and slowly, it's just right. Hilarious without "going for the joke". This art is so welcome, and rare to see.
Onions are healthy for the body, they stink, they taste good. Like the Wild (Mountain) onions, metaphorically and literally experienced by the inhabiters of this work.
Exquisite.
Braveheart (1995)
Waste of everything
First and foremost, lousy amateurish screenplay. From action to scenes, to plot to dialogue, oh my god. Gibson's acting is so-so at best. King Edward's acting is awesome! But the freaking lines across the board suck (actor's spoken lines.) If you're into slash, dash, slash some more dash even more, that really does not 'evolve' in any way, then see it. The photography is beautiful, but is photography enough to justify spending nearly 3 hours on this thing? Whether William Wallace was a great person / warrior you're left to infer that he 'should have been' but that is not on the screen though intended as outcome of the flick - yuck. His character is badly drawn across the conflicts. I haven't read the book (novel on which it is based), hopefully it is much more interesting than the slam bam surface only flick.