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Corner Office (2022)
Schizoid personality disorder, The movie.
As someone who suffers from Depersonalization and Schizoid disorder, this movie hit me in the most unexpected way possible.
Whoever wrote it, knows how it feels to live trapped inside your own mind, where it becomes your only safe space in which you can finally be your real self (emotionally and intellectually), where it becomes "The Corner Office".
The style of the direction, the color-grade and the cinematography follow the overly-methodical and overly-analytical personality of the main character (that's how HE sees the world). Everything is grey, spaced-out, bland, cold and static with a cloud of dread circulating around everything and everyone: that's how the outside world and the real life feels like. But not in his Corner Office.
It's a solid and simple movie, very original in it's idea because it's not simply a "inside the mind of a mad man" script. It's not pretentious in how it deals with questions and with it's message.
Don't go expecting a big budget oscar winning drama; it doesn't try to be that.
Also: his monologues made me think of Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864).
The Shield: Postpartum (2006)
"Shane? Shane!"
Yeah. I don't need to say nothing more.
He was my favorite since the first season. He didn't deserve none of it. He was the best.
Props to Kenny Johnson for giving life to Lem, what an amazing and underrated actor.
Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
It's about more than just computers froms the 80's and 90's. Be warned.
I gave a chance to this TV show because of the concept: I love technology and the history of it.
Then I kept watching it because of the actors: Lee Pace, Mackenzie Davis and one of my new favorite actors, Scoot McNairy. They were amazing together, a perfect mix!
And then I kept watching because of the characters.
The concept became just a background setting and the actors merged into the characters. I was there for them.
Thank God I decided to give a chance to this show. Thank God!
Halt and Catch Fire: Goodwill (2017)
I wasn't ready for this.
I gave a chance to this TV show because of the concept: I love technology and the history of it.
Then I kept watching it because of the actors: Lee Pace, Mackenzie Davis and one of my new favorite actors, Scoot McNairy. They were amazing together, a perfect mix!
And then I kept watching because of the characters.
The concept became just a background setting and the actors merged into the characters. I was there for them.
Yeah, I cried during this whole episode. It never happened to me before.
Thank God I decided to give a chance to this show. Thank God!
Halt and Catch Fire: Who Needs a Guy (2017)
Indeed, the most beautiful episode.
I'm not the type to cry, especially watching movies or TV shows, but god damn, I cried on this episode and during whole next one.
This is the power of a good tv show.
I cared so much for these characters; it's been years since I felt that.
And suddenly one of them, in the most poetic way, just goes away. The signs were there, but I just could believe it...
Thank God I decided to give a chance to this show. Thank God!
Downton Abbey: Episode #5.7 (2014)
"Poooooor Edith"
We need to see Lady Edith's capabilities. We know she has good ones, but they are rarely shown. The Marigold Issue would have more substance if it was tied with it.
Lady Mary is in a quest to find a marriage bounded with love, and the more she "researches", the more she refuses. And in this episode she finally tosses the latter try out. I hope Blake's departure isn't one like Gregson's. It's a bad time to be in Poland, you know. Kinda... Ship them, to be sincere.
Violet Crawley sees herself losing grip with the before-unlikely-friendship with Lady Isobel Crawley, I mean, Isobel bloody Merton. Dr. Clarkson seemed the obvious choice, Isobel had the practice of nursing, a very exciting direction, and it's sad too see her incline for a generic Lord. Yeah, I'm fond of him too, but wouldn't you prefer the understanding Dr. Clarkson? "Harsh reality is always better than false hope."
And in the kitchens a star shines: go, Daisy, go! She grew such a potential in this season, going from a kitchen maid that only blushed with romantics aspirations from a avid thinker. "Education is power". People around her will never let her give up. Mr. Mosley deserves more good things in his life; he is pure in his doings, ingenuous, almost in a child-like manner. I'm already missing Mrs. Bunting, for both Daisy's party and from Tom's love-sh-arc.
Oh, Spratt. Is more than expected from DA to give life and sub-plots simple butlers- and other servants- , keeping things rich and dynamic.
Isis and Edith, the first getting more attention the the latter. With real problems and a destroyed heart, "poooooor Edith" - as Cora would say - consumes herself with the only thing that matters: Love.
Everybody's problems are being crossed; by accidents or by will. I love this kind of development because forces the characters to interact in other levels. But the episode goes everywhere and at the same time nowhere. Was a good one, some emotion spikes here and there, but no conclusions of sorts. Each little sub-plot is dragging, waiting to some big event to make them explode. But I don't care. I can watch them having dinner all day and I would still be pleased.
R.I.P Isis.