sotirkouloukakos Reviews

Elif (2014–2019)

I'm sorry?

[1/10 · 19 January 2022]

This series has been playing on TV for years, and my mother keeps watching it (For God knows why to be honest). The plot? Well, there doesn't seem to be any plot. It's just a six-year-old girl's life. She's being kidnapped every now and then by different people (Which, as a matter of fact, is impossible for a mother to have so many enemies who happen to kidnap her child).

The characters aren't that special - it's just either people so ordinary you don't even give a damn or unrealistically dumb and evil. The first season seems to be fine for most people, but the rest of the seasons are just pretty bad. The whole series has over a thousand episodes (I have no idea how), despite it receiving generally negative reviews here on IMDB and probably from critics.

Anyways, this series is over-exaggerated, dull/boring and too long. Just do yourself a favor and watch something less wasteful.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

There's literally no reason for anyone to watch this film.

[1/10 · 11 January 2022]

Salo does a great job at showing us what humans are truly capable of. It shows it some of the most disgusting, stomach-turning imagery ever put in the cinematic screen. I get the message that it's trying to deliver, but I still don't find any reason for anyone to watch this film.

Anyone, and I mean absolutely anyone who watches this feels physically sick. There's no hero's story, no character development, no happiness and almost no plot. It's just some people gathered up during WWII and sent into a secluded castle, where they will be tortured in the worst imaginable ways. It's one of the most depressing and disgusting pieces of cinema that I've ever seen to the point where I just couldn't finish it. It ends, however, in a very weird way. This film has torture, violence, it has everything to make anyone's stomach turn. The only way you can feel any happiness is when they actually kill someone, because that "someone" will get the chance not to be tortured like the others do.

I would not recommend this film to anyone, not even those who believe they can handle shocking imagery. There is nothing to gain from watching a film where all that happens is sexual, mental and physical torture. Just do yourself a favor and watch something else.