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Teströl és lélekröl (2017)
What is the nature of human connections?
Can anyone truly feel what you feel (no matter if you are autistic or not)? The lengths we go to in hope of finding that special connection with someone who 'gets us'... The film makes such a connection a mystical act, inexplicable by rational thinking: the dreams, the "I feel like I'm going to die" phone call just at the right time... And it feels right... And then the song comes...
This film twists your soul and makes you rethink the nature of human connections. A masterpiece.
Black Mirror: Hang the DJ (2017)
Alternative ending in the spirit of Black Mirror
This is a very humane episode with deep emotional connection between the characters, in the same vein as "San Junipero"... But I am conflicted about the ending: the two people in real life feel a spark of deep emotional connection, while one thousand of their sentient AI replicas get discarded. Is that humane?.. Should I feel OK about it, since these personalities fell in love, and were tricked into catharsis of 'beating the system', and not forced to do deplorable things as in "White Christmas" or "USS Callister" (never mind a few awful relationships they were forced into along the way)? Is it OK to discard an artificial personality with real feelings if it was humanely treated before?
I think that highlighting these issues in the end of the episode would've been closer to the overall spirit of "Black Mirror", and I would suggest a sightly different shot sequence in the end of the episode:
- simulated couples find themselves among 998 couples like them.
- the app in real life flashes 99.8% match, followed by the spark of human connection.
- simulated couples get discarded by fading away into in the app's statistic.
- cut to black.
Black Mirror: USS Callister (2017)
Would've been a great episode... if I hadn't seen "White Christmas"
This would've been a great episode...The story and the visuals are great, but... the "punch in the gut" feeling of unfairness, hopelessness, and fear was captured much more poignantly in "White Christmas" in the situation that is conceptually the same. "White Christmas" delivered stronger emotional impact with just a blank white background... despite all the fancy imagery and the more advanced story line of "USS Callister".
Y tu mamá también (2001)
A movie about lessons in life
'Y tu mama tambien' (And Your Mother Too) is about two best friends who just graduated from high school, and went on a trip to an imaginary beach (they made up a name) with a beautiful woman (who is married to one of the boys' cousin) in hopes of having sex with her.
The style of this movie, and especially narration reminds me of 'Amelie', which was also a nice and very beautiful movie, but I feel that it did not have the depth of 'Y tu mama tambien'.
Below the surface of this road movie, there is a film about universal things in life. It is about a moment when you realize for the first time that you are not the invincible king of the world, and all the tough rules of life fully apply to you; this is the time when you get to mature. It is about a moment when you realize that your whole life crashes into ruins, and there is nothing you can do about it, but accept it as it is - this is the time when you look back, and realize that only now you start to understand what life is all about.
At the end 'Y tu mama tambien' makes you think about life and the lessons we all learnt (or should have learnt) along the way, which is always not a bad thing. I wish there were more movies like this one.