ogisevic Reviews

Kindred (2022)

Please some network pick up this show

[10/10 · 27 April 2023]

This is one of the most original and shows from the recent past. Additionally, the topics it touches upon are super current and it addresses social issues like racism, privilege, misogyny, illiteracy... It shows so well how cruel people and a society at large can be but also complicates everything by allowing the audience to understand the matter of fact mindset of people who behave terribly towards other humans.

The acting is solid. (The protagonist's looks and behavior resemble somewhat Viola Davis. It's like a younger version of her. Would be cool to see them both in the same movie as siblings, mother and daughter or same person at different ages!) The plot makes sense and is super tense and interesting... Word in the press is the makers are shopping the show to other streaming services and I really hope someone picks it up and the shops continues. In the meantime I am going to read the book. First session is supposedly only the first third of the book and I must find our hours it continues.

House of the Dragon: We Light the Way (2022) Season 1, Episode 5

GoT Soap Opera

[3/10 · 21 September 2022]

House of the Dragon is increasingly feeling like a soap opera and it's far from a literary masterpiece that GoT was.

The key plot points are naive at best and sloppy if we are being honest. The queen's reaction to her best friend's fling, Sir Christian's expectations of his lover, his quick repentance in front of the queen, his exaggerated reaction at the wedding and the fact that he could just walk away, Aegon's cousin in law's surprise at Aegon claiming his inheritance, and so many other situations I watched tonight are just so unconvincing and incredible... They seem to still be setting up the actual plot and rushing through why things will happen as they will but this should either not be this obvious or the audience should not be expected to be invested in these characters when they are painted so superficially.

I hope they manage to turn it all around because if this becomes the new standard, HoD is going to be a soap spin off of a masterpiece.

The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

An adult coming-out-of-age story

[6/10 · 11 April 2021]

My take on this movie's meaning: Coin flip sides and need for continuous re-evaluation of personal attitudes as meta topics for individual growth experience.

Challenged by circumstances, the protagonist resolves to meet them proactively and digs deep into self. He draws upon various aspects of his personality and develops skills needed to stand up for himself.

His brand new perspectives seem to serve him at first but, then, run wild and lead him astray, to another extreme from where he set off his journey.

By recalibrating his inner compass, he tames hyperaggressive aspects that turn out to not serve his (and others') best interests.

He manages to integrate his alpha-typical behavior into a larger body of personal behavior while putting his more diplomatic and compassionate traits in charge of the new self.

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Equal but wiser

[10/10 · 29 May 2020]

What I love most about this story is that it transcends victimization and turns the experience into an advantage to fool the predators. Can we focus on this in future tales about the outsider experience in the once white man's world? Why not point out the smartness, wisdom, courage and fierceness of the oppressed more frequently than the hardship they encounter?