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Une fille facile (2019)
It's like The Room, but not funny
And I don't have much more to say. Yet another Net-flix find to fit the shallow stream. The formula seems to work fine, surprisingly! I'm worried about the humanity a bit.
Green Book (2018)
Would you not feel good if I lied to you? Of course not, cause you're smart and beautiful.
This is a feel-good film which sadly happens to be (oh surprise) factually inaccurate, resting on shaky foundations, things made-up or bluntly 'lies'. In a well-to-proven formula, Hollywood took a character, thisted some facts, some added, some removed, and there's such an uplifting story that even the greatest cynics feel good. It's a gold standard fell-good film. Don't ya like a f...lickin' KFC? Never mind the content...
Eyforiya (2006)
Till human voices wake us and we drown.
Maybe it is flawed at the core as someone mentioned - perhaps too erotic, too reckless when it comes to human relations (one would like to see a caring mother, a loyal husband etc.). But then there is the extensive imaginary of steppes, the ever-still nature indifferent to any human affairs. The force far greater than the convention. The long scenes are poetic, the music, the scarcity of dialogue - all together make an unforgettable experience. It's an astonishing spectacle of human passions.
I see all the striving of the main characters as a way to break free from the slow death served by these idyllic landscapes. A way to show that human passions conquer everything: including nature, customs or any terrestrial rationality. Just like in the scene where Vera escapes her husband to the lover, escapes rooting away with the person she doesn't love to something uncertain, yet powerful enough to abandon what is certain. I think this film never really wanted to deal with morality and doesn't claim that infidelity is accepted, it rather shows two antagonistic powers: one of the stillness, and one of the passion. In the place where stillness reigns, passions burn one's soul, to burst when the time comes. For Vera and for Pavel the time has come. Once they break the flow of stillness, they are lost - lying on the grass completely aghast, muttering words that no longer have meanings, nor sound. Finally they are punished for breaking the flow, for their rebellion and courage. And that is what seems to beyond Vera's understanding, as if life didn't want to grant permission for that extraordinary happiness, as if it opposed their love. Or maybe it's not any metaphysical force but "merely" human passions - conflicting human passions in the flow of life that is beyond comprehension, just like a ride on a motorbike, arranged by someone else for you.
The Tree of Life (2011)
Unless you love.
I remember seeing that film for the very first time. I confirmed myself in the belief that it's love-it-or-fall-asleep film, just like Tarkovsky's "Stalker" or pretty much anything by Bergman. The film seemed like a never-ending bore and clearly something was missing. Or rather, I have missed something. I've watched with great appreciation dozens of "artistic-deep-never-ending" films, and I felt cheated, since this one had promised so much.
That was before. Then I lost someone I loved, someone my life depended on. For the first two months or so I wasn't ready to watch any film. Yet, this one was the first I watched. Then I knew that one needs certain experience to comprehend it's two-hour long beauty. Suddenly nearly every moment of this previously unattractive film became important. Every whisper, every sound and every scene meaningful. It's pure beauty: the birds flocking and dispersing on a dead silent sky, galactic imaginary, creation of the world accompanied by Mozart's Lacrimosa (by maestro Preisner)...and a multitude of previously unnoticed details. And the main theme is just like T.S.Eliot wrote: "We die with the dying: See, they depart, and we go with them.". The characters - father, mother, son - all are departed. Staring into emptiness, stunned, for they can't deal with the loss, for they have also lost part of themselves. For me "The Tree of Life" is a picture of spiritual desolation, of our fall, of our doubt, ultimate loneliness in our existential condition, and of our struggle. "World has gone to the dogs" and buzzing silence - that's how one feels dealing with a dead-blow loss - resignated and stunned. Later comes the great search for meaning, just like in Frankl's book about Auschwitz survivors, one has to build, fill the gap somehow. Malick chose God.
Malick's "The Tree of Life" is a difficult picture and not readily available for everyone (bless you the fortunate ones). It's also beautiful and deep, especially for those who experienced the bitter taste of life, or rather – of death. And there is one more human theme - love. Love and death always march together. That's our greatest tragedy - we have to love what is mortal, depend on it, and one day let it depart (just like Mary Oliver wrote). That's the price to pay for meaning and happiness on this planet, it's a pact with the devil - unfair and inhuman, yet seems to be our only choice. Otherwise, it's a life-time of doubt and emptiness..."unless you love".