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O Lado Bom de ser Traída (2023)
I LOVED IT!
This movie is so underrated. It is very intense, fun, relatable, has mystery, good music, a GREAT plot twist, and... I am usually bored by sex scenes, but in this movie, they are done so well in such a great style!
I liked it so much that I am thinking about it days after watching it. I wish I could see more movies like this one.
That "nice guy"... what a surprise! I would never dream he would be a villain! A-M-A-Z-I-N-G plot twist again!
The action and the plan of killing were so intense! The accident too!
I am surprised that many people did not like the movie. The movie has everything it takes to be considered one of the best!
And she got over the cheating and got another lover, it was somewhat fast - not complaining - but so intense!
La usurpadora (1998)
Clichés, unrealism, forced drama and sale of bad "morals"
I started watching this show like 8 years ago, expecting a nice story, the concept looked interest. It's the old cliché of identical twins who were separated at birth and are completely different in personality, but I wanted to give it a try.
While Paola is the rich, elegant, arrogant woman who does bad things and gets away with them, Paulina is the poor version of a Mary-Sue, living a humble life, working and trying to save her ill mother. She meets Paola, who immediately points to how similar they look and Paulina denies - was it just an attempt to get rid of her? They were identical and their only difference was the hair!
Paola promises money as long as Paulina takes her place, and has a boyfriend who she seems to be very emotionally invested on, he disappears, and not much later on, their mother passes away, which can be sad but as it seems, these two events are convenient for the plot. And of course: their mother writes a letter revealing the truth before that.
Paulina, now having nothing keeping her at her town, agrees to live Paola's life and instantly falls in love with Carlos Daniel, forgetting her previous boyfriend. Very soon she's crying and saying "my God, how much I love him" and she cries in literally every scene, that's exaggerated and forced.
And of course, as I said, she's a Mary-Sue. She's supposed to know things that no one knows, be the mother of two children she doesn't even know, treat Stephanie well and support her even though she's completely obnoxious, heal her husband's grandmother, work in her husband's factory - and the series presents it as the ultimate novelty, as if no women worked in 1998! - give life advice to her work colleagues, talk to people who makes protests and convince them, and even say she forced her sister to do what she did after realizing she's gone through an accident and that they are sisters. And only to add some drama, she gets in petty arguments with Carlos Daniel all the time and refuses to start a relationship with him even after they could without any moral implications.
Later on, she meets her previous boyfriend who abandoned her and is now with a middle-aged woman (with an old mother who has dementia) and spends her money. Ok, what he did was no good and he is an opportunistic person, the detail is that she says "someone who does this or that isn't worth anything" some three times and that's not creative and even lazy. The third thing is "a man who lives at a woman's expense isn't worth anything". Wow, huge double standards here!
Another thing that's awful in this series is the child abuse and neglect and their normalization. Carlos Daniel's son is in a school in which other kids bully him and scare him, he always wants to sleep with the door open and the lights on, and his aunt doesn't let him, it's clear that it's just because she's evil but it doesn't change the fact that no one does anything to make him feel safe. Later on, they try to wake him up to go to school, and he pretends to be sleeping because he doesn't want to go through that, so Paulina hits him. The only ones who don't condone this are the maid - who doesn't say or do anything - and Stephanie, but of course the latter only opposed it because she hated Paulina (Stephanie made her niece and nephew turn to the wall, threatening to beat them once). The whole family and even Carlos Daniel take Paulina's side. The son even said he deserved that. This made me lose all my respect for Paulina, this family and this show. I don't care how much angelic they try to make her, this is despicable. Later on, Piedade also threatens to hit the same child after he disappeared and her grandson says "when we find him, you can do whatever you want with him".
Speaking of that event... totally unrealistic. The boy falls and loses all his memory, bonds with another family who gets in trouble only to add more drama.
I don't recommend it, really.
Alle reden übers Wetter (2022)
A lot of plots that don't connect with each other
When I watched the ending and saw her back to her apartment, I saw her boyfriend and friend and thought "oh yeah, these guys were in the beginning of the movie, I forgot them, it felt like a lifetime ago!" and it is not the first movie that did that, but the detail is that this movie consists of many random plots that, as I said, aren't connected or even resolved. Not even the main theme is resolved: she says at some point that she wish she could talk to her mother about more than the weather, the answer she received was "damned if I do, damned if I don't" and their communication didn't improve.
First she is teaching at the university, to a party from work, then she's discussing with her work colleagues, then she's home talking to her boyfriend (who says the relationship is cold despite she says she loves him), then she goes to see her daughter (who demonstrates not to be too close to her), who lives with her father, they travel, meet the main character's mother, a friend (who she's attracted to, maybe he's a former boyfriend), then there's a party, she and the friend mentioned above dance and almost cheat on their partners, but then she stops the dance and leaves, then she goes to the market with her mother and daughter, then she says goodbye and goes back to her home and meet her boyfriend and friend. Maybe I put some stuff in the wrong order, but the point stands: you cannot make a connection or see a resolution.
Also, when she says goodbye to her mother, she kisses her on the lips and that felt so inappropriate and out of place. A goodbye hug would have been better, warmer and more sensitive.
The scenes that I liked the most:
- when the main character and her daughter witness a child being hit by his mother and they express disgust towards it, and later she complains about it to her mother. I literally said "thank you, I love you" because I hate violence against children and like it when people stand against it. I wish it was done more often in fiction and in real life.
- when she teaches her students that they need to know whether someone (a woman, in the subject) wants to be saved before they offer their help.
- when the main character discusses with some guys who are not arguing with good faith (the subject was related to female representation if I remember well), and when they get dismissive she says "if you don't want to know what I think, don't ask my opinion". I liked that!
I like many of the ideas presented in this film. However, their execution leaves something to be desired.
The Dreamers (2003)
Weird, and not in a cool way
I'm surprised people like this movie so much and call it a masterpiece. The movie is just an American guy meeting two French colleagues that are children of an English mother and know the main character is American and doesn't speak French from the beginning, and the three become close friends right away. They take Matthew to their house, the siblings' parents are very nice people (while Matthew's are not) and still Theo doesn't like them (at least his father). The parents invite Matthew to stay over, even though they barely know him, and leave.
At the first night, Matthew figures that Theo and Isabelle have an incestuous relationship and Isabelle kisses Matthew even though they barely know each other, on the next day he wakes up with her licking him, which is very intrusive and not nice at all.
And oof, Matthew has the **unforgivable** habit of urinating in the sink. Once he does it on Theo's toothbrush and he doesn't even have the decency of throwing it off. Why? It's disgusting!
They are cinephiles, but it seems to be only a detail to fit in the overly sexual plot. The sister asks her brother what's the name of the movie and when he doesn't, she makes him masturbate to a woman in a picture in front of her and Matthew and even licks the fluid. It's gross, honestly.
Theo later on decides to do the same. He gives Isabelle - and Matthew - the task of identifying a movie and Matthew is close to, maybe even did guess, but Theo deliberately makes the time short enough not to let them guess, and then make Isabelle and Matthew do you know what in front of him. Matthew is reluctant and even hides but even then they force/pressure him into it. That's literally sexual abuse. And after it, Isabelle bleeds and cries, Theo puts his hand on the blood and then Matthew rubs the blood on her face and they kiss. What an awful scene.
Matthew and Isabelle starts dating and Theo ironically doesn't like it. Theo and Matthew later on do the homoerotic shotgunning, which makes one think they later will have a threesome or a relationship, whatever, there's more nudity, they eat from the trash can after spending all their money, keep talking about films... I don't know much about the rest. I stopped watching at some point.
This movie is basically shock value with hardly any substance. Maybe what makes it appealing is that the actors look good, the siblings' parents are nice, there's art, there's Paris (which many people are in love with), and also some people have certain kinks and/or like shocking movies.
Anyway, not for me.
Tausend Ozeane (2008)
Very emotional movie
It is a rollercoaster. The beginning is very sweet and the entire movie has cute moments, it shows the friendship between Meikel and Björk, them enjoying the travel and meeting people, and when Meikel comes back home his family is acting strange, and then we realize that a tragical accident happens that affected Meikel seriously and it even took Björk's life. I cried a lot watching the movie, especially when I saw Meikel crying - I adore Max Riemelt, he's great but I have never seen him cry like that. Meikel's father in the beginning of the movie sounded insensitive but I felt bad for him through the movie. Meikel and his brother also were very close and I felt bad for the latter as well. Some of the scenes made me feel angry, and like, the entire movie felt so real and it's so unusual, at least for me. Thankfully it's just fiction, but very well made! Congratulations to everyone!
Svartur á leik (2012)
Heartbreaking
It was entertaining to see gangs and crime and how they act, this subject is interesting. Maybe too much hanky panky that don't add to the plot. However, that scene with the villain and Stebbi made me hope that Stebbi could get rid of him... he didn't and that scene is so heartbreaking. I wanted to hug him and I hoped for justice, that didn't happen either. He didn't tell anyone, he at least followed his friend's advice to fight in the craziest moment. But it isn't even clear what happened - at least for me because I didn't pay attention to the details.
So the movie manages to be entertaining and emotionally touching but has its flaws.
Dohee-ya (2014)
This movie perpetuates child abuse
When I decided to watch the movie, I was aware there would be child abuse. I expected it to be criticized and actually fought against, but it wasn't.
Everyone is aware the girl suffers abuse that goes from name-calling to severe beatings from her "father" and "grandmother" - which are not even biological or adoptive - but even after RELUCTANTLY helping the girl, the officer agrees to give the child back to her father when he stops drinking - and he doesn't! - as if the girl were a car. Later, when the chief is being interrogated, the detective even asks why the chief kept the girl in her house permanently and not temporarily. Seriously?
Later on, the "father" accuses the chief of leaving the girl for another woman, the girl goes to the officer's house barefoot and hurt and confronts her, the chief responds by slapping the girl and kicking the girl out of her home, leaving her to receive more abuse by her "father". And the chief never apologizes for that.
Later, the girl realizes that no one will really do anything in order to protect unless something even more extreme happens, and that she needs to make some sort of sacrifice in order to get rid of her "father". The girl records her "father" abusing her in a call to another police officer - and it's later made clear it's not even the first time he did that, and the bastard finally goes to jail and loses the ownership of her. Even then, the male police officer - and a reviewer here - accuses THE GIRL of being a monster because she incriminated her "father" and maybe caused the death of her "grandmother" in order to survive. That is depressingly messed up. What was the girl supposed to do? Suffer more abuse and maybe die in their hands?
Unfortunately, a lot of people have zero empathy for children. I'm disappointed that no one in the reviews criticized the abuse, the neglect and the victim-blaming. They preferred to focus on the chief's orientation, breakup and alcohol problem rather than in that awful situation.
And one review even says that the original plan of the author was not even to focus on child abuse. In my opinion, if he made a movie about an LGBT police officer dealing with a breakup and there was a solution, the movie would be much more likeable.