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Black Mirror: Metalhead (2017)
Wasted time
I honestly find it difficult to understand why Black Mirror came up with such a boring and lazy installment. I understand that it is more about the atmosphere (which was decently unsettling, I agree), but the absolute lack of any plot simply ruined it for me. What are the robots? Who created them? What exactly are the characters trying to do? I have no idea, and neither did the director(s) of this episode imho. The black&white aesthetics and the soundless slow motion scenes tried to create something niche (probably), but they just ended up being annoying and exaggerated. Too bad, I was expecting something more from it.
Taximetristi (2023)
Excellent thought-provoking movie!
I really don't understand the hate comments. The way I see it, "Taximetristi" behaves like an impressionist novel: we only experience a brief, raw sequence in the complex lives of the characters. Details about their lives are gradually unraveled to the viewers and we have to assemble the puzzle ourselves while only being given one small piece at a time (like learning about the hardships and the broken relationships of the characters). It captures perfectly the "hood" life in Bucharest and the way in which different characters adapt to it (with raw, unfiltered words and intentionally obnoxious behaviours). The film is intense, with moments of laughter and deep sadness, and manages to make us, the viewers, feel like passengers in a taxi: we get into the car not knowing anything about the driver, then find out a series of diverse and intriguing pieces of information about the driver's personal life, with joys and sorrows, and after we reach the destination and exit the car, we move on towards our homes and our own lives. But even so, we can't stop wondering about how the driver's life will turn out to be, and most probably we will never know (such as Liviu's relationship with Veronica). There is also an overall irony concerning Lica's life: he goes from bragging about seducing a policewoman to deeply regretting the end of his former relationship, and he goes from making fun of a gay person to begging another gay person to have a beer with him so that he could stop thinking about his misery and loneliness, even for a moment. This is "Taximetristi".
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Wasted potential
I honestly expected a way better movie. The story itself is interesting, and the idea of trying to show a situation through the eyes of a mentally ill person is, in theory, very good. But this film is an epic fail in that regard.
I didn't think it was possible for a 2021 movie to have such terrible CGI. It's absolutely laughable and it totally breaks the little bit of immersion that the movie manages to create.
The film is slow and boring, with bits of "better" plot sequences. The plot twist that was supposed to be a turning point is also an epic fail, since it makes no sense at all and is terribly acted.
A waste of time, honestly. There are so many better movies.