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The English (2022)
Firm over content for sure
Looks pretty, creates a real tense atmospheres but that's about all. This stylish drivel is almost un-watchably bad.
What a wasted opportunity, this could have been so much better. One can only suspend so much realism and even if drunk I would struggle to do that here.
I simply could not empathise with the characters in this film, I did not believe in them or their actions.
This feels so much like a film written by committee, like a randomly assembled jigsaw of largely disconnected ideas.
Whan it opened I hoped for something along the lines of The Ballard of Buster Scruggs, what I got was so very far short of that.
Brave use of silence though, one of the key things about those American plains.
Nomadland (2020)
An astonishing film, powerfully quiet and gentle
I was very over by this film, to some extent it tells the other side of the story, the tragic human side to 'The Big Short'. The people are shown making the best of limited choices and retaining their decency and humanity. It is humbling.
Waiting for Godot (2001)
Becket's seminal work well performed
The paired down landscape perfectly matches Becket's strange, funny and disquietingly surreal play.