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Reviews
Sedmikrásky (1966)
Silly Film
Some people call this film a feminist statement. I see no feminist statement in a film about a pair of rotten young people who steal from the men who love them, vandalize what ever comes their way, and laugh at the men who cry over them. They think it's fun to break men's hearts. This isn't feminist. It's sadism and it's cruel. There are several moments with special visual effects, some of which are interesting and some of which are annoying. The soundtrack is bad. Some portions of the film have no music and those work better. Naturally, the characters they encounter are mostly caricatures and not realistic people, and so are easy targets for ridicule. This wasted 75 minutes of my time. Skip this and do something better with your 75 minutes.
Killing Eve (2018)
Terrible Second Half Ruins the Series
This show had a very promising beginning. The first four episodes were interesting and actually made sense, in terms of character motivation and action. Starting with episode five, however, things went rapidly downhill. The behavior of the main character, Eve, became ridiculous. Was she out to stop a killer or out to have an affair with her? Why would she want to have an affair with her? She supposedly cares about her husband, but then, not so much, it seems. The killer killed her partner, so she supposedly wants to avenge his death, but then, not so much, after all. Besides, her husband and her partner were only men, so they don't matter so much to her. The killer likes to mutilate her male victims, so Eve jumps to the conclusion that some man must have done something to her. In modern times, they love to blame men for everything that happens. Sometimes, some women are just plain sadistic. It doesn't mean that any man did anything to her. You can't blame men for women's behavior. Can't women think for themselves? Of course they can. Eve get plenty of opportunities to stop the killer and even opportunities to killer her. She lets her go every time. How stupid can you get? This woman is killing innocent people, but that doesn't matter any more to Eve, because now Eve is obsessed with her. Why would Eve change like that? There is no motivation for her behavior in the last four episodes, leading up to one of the worst endings of any TV series I've ever seen. It's like a good set of writers wrote episodes 1 - 4, and a lousy set of writers wrote episodes 5 - 8. I wasted eight hours watching this. I want those eight hours back.