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La vita bugiarda degli adulti (2023)
Beautiful, haunting, thought provoking, inspiring
This series provides a rare opportunity to experience something real while watching Netflix.
You will find complex characters that develop, rather than resolve; moral dilemmas that are not black and white; a study on hypocrisy; theme of forgiveness/moving on/acceptance of humanity in all its flawed glory.. and all of it is set against the backdrop of grimy, sketchy Naples in the 90s - which looks pretty much opposite to the "eat-pray-love" kind of Italy.
Each episode was thought provoking for multiple reasons, and I devoured the series the way I devour cold coconut water on a hot summer day.
I docked a star for the horrendous musical score.
30 Rock (2006)
Just not that funny
Look closely at the high ratings on this title. There are four identical reviews from supposedly different people (just Ctrl + F for "even the normally unwatchable Tracy Morgan" phrase).
One of the few poor reviews states that the reviewer just doesn't like "sophisticated comedy".. and this is about the show that's full of jokes about farts, eating boogies, "dietary failings", etc.?
Baldwin certainly brings sophistication, wit, and superb execution to his role, but that's about all the good about the show.
Tina Fey is bland. Neither the content of her jokes, nor her delivery, are particularly good, and I have to agree with a previous reviewer who questioned why someone like her would go into comedy at all. Tracy Morgan sounds like a 5th grader yelling a script off a page without any inflection in his voice or pauses to honour punctuation. I kept wondering if most of the jokes are inside SNL jokes, because I just didn't think most of it was funny. Jane K is stuck on repeat as a self absorbed sociopath, a one-personality-trait woman whose presence adds nothing and gets more and more tiring throughout the series.
I made it my goal to finish the show, but the only way I could accomplish it was to play it in the background while I was cooking or prepping walls for painting.
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Beautiful and thought-provoking
All the 1-star reviews on this movie which claimed that it was horrible were left by the same person, it seems. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a religious Meetup group who decided to underrate this movie and leave bad reviews because they were convinced it was a film out of Soddom & Gomorrah. It's pathetic. Finding this movie arousing is akin to watching "Candy" and feeling the desire to do some drugs after.
The second volume retains that raw beauty which can be found in the first volume, but is definitely darker and grittier. The two movies are shockingly honest in depicting a very heavy subject, yet refreshing and - in a strange way - inspiring.