A beautiful, moody, mysterious short! The loss of a friend as a silent, hallucinatory mourning. A constant memory that transforms pain in a state of suspended, dreamlike reality. The bond between the young man and the deceased is never explained, and even the intimate, physical contact with his ghost reads like hugging on the past, the necessity to not let him go. Friends? Boyfriends? The ghost is neither the inseparable best pal, or a sexually charged, romantic lover. Re-watching the short the apparitions of the ghost (and what he does) become clear to explain the unexpected end. Not literal, not sentimental, but highly evocative. The necessity of love, at all costs. The eternal theme of Romeo & Romeo.
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6 Reviews
A Wake
(I) (2019)
GOOD, BUT UNFOCUSED
3 February 2022
Too many characters in this story, distracting from the main drama: the death of a twin, which seems almost an afterthought. Instead of concentrating on that and the relationship of the 2 siblings (and the one's love interest) their family become the relevant focus, which might make sense....but! The problem is that for no particular reason a large amount of time is spent around the little annoying sister; she's not fun, nice, key to the story or the narrative; so is the grandma, a conservative religious woman dressed -why?- for a kinky party. The main characters, the living twin, and the dead-twin-boyfriend, have a limited, fragmented time, where we understand little and wish for much more, to no avail. Even the last scene, at the cemetery, where we expect something to happen, is interrupted after 1 minute by: the grandma, the little horrible sister, the other sister fresh of an intercourse in a car, and her uber-boyfriend. A movie with a great potential, but a poor direction. BRAVO to Noah Urrea for his portrait of Mason, but unfortunately, he cannot alone save the movie. A suggestion: do not use smart kids in films, they are often unbearable. That little girl is the perfect example of what one should never do in a movie. Over the top, and incredibly ANTIPATICO.
Game Over, Man!
(2018)
Deliciously bad!
13 April 2020
Don't listen to the negative reviews, the movie is a lot of fun. It's vulgar, obscene, full of crude and almost surreal situations. It is what it should be. FUN, FUN, and FUN. But since there a scene where they kill a dog, everybody is condemning the movie. "Disgusting". AS IF! As if thousand of Hollywood movies containing millions of murders and atrocities of any kinds, video games based exclusively on killing people, are perfectly OK but the fictional death of a chihuahua is just to much to accept. Somebody in the reviews called it INHUMANE CRUELTY, nothing less.
That's the level of movie critique we find here. Thank you very much.
Hate Crime
(2017)
Claudio Sgaravizzi
17 February 2020
A beautiful movie that doesn't deserve that low vote. Why? Is that because a lot of religious people blindly voted against a gay themed movie? is that because gays refuse to see both sides of a crime, however horrible it might be? Why exactly this movie did to make people reaction so negative? The movie is well directed, the actors are great, the script and lines are beautifully balanced; If there is a weakness in the movie, is the finale, that cannot avoid a certain sentimentality typical of American movies, but I guess this is far for being the culprit.
I suspect in fact that the movie goes deeper that most people would like to go, that its meditation around a crime is more complex than what a lot of people would like to resolve in their mind. Also, the movie goes even further than its main theme, the hate crime; it points the finger to one of the most inhumane paths the America has chosen to embrace, the death penalty.
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