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Antares de la Luz: La secta del fin del mundo (2024)
Evading and lack of critical view
Lazy documentary that it seems to serve the only purpose of cleaning the killers image.
It has problems to find its right tone: psychological, police chronicle, or court story. It, but it fails in every one of them. Also, it evades the social, economical, political, and religious context in wich this story unfolds, presenting a generic montage of world news from those years. It never address that the murderers came from wealthy families, and such.
There's some cool TV series presentation, specially in the opening, and dialogs. They sound unnatural, rehearsed, and generally: anecdotal. The whole crime has this light tone. The only things that feels powerful and real are some archive footage from court and PDI police women.
Finally, the conclusions: "as a society, we are all guilty". It relativizes the agressors responsability, and makes the whole murder very fickle.
Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka (2023)
Miyazaki imitating Miyazaki
This film is very similar to The Beatles "last song", Now and Then. All the elements that compose a Gibhli film are there, but, the magic is gone. It's just Miyazaki imitating Miyazaki, and it feels out of place.
In the case of The Beatles, the overproduction tries to cover the lack of creativity, punch, and consistency of the original work (a late Lennon discarded track). Miyazaki keeps a low volume, a conservative pacing, but the results are almost the same.
The movie fails to create a cohesive story, and new elements are randomly presented, challenging the audience to care about them.
Lastly, disappointing. Sometimes, you have to know when to retire.
Tan inmunda y tan feliz (2022)
Fascinating record, but lackustre film
Visual records of Hija de Perra are fascinating and captivate the audience due to her great personality, and artistic experimentation.
We will be watching curated scenes from this chilean performer with a notable sexual and social segregation background. Specially, those related to her artistic career. There are some interesting bits with her family, a typical low-middle class from Chile, who accompany her in their initiatives.
Her death is pretty iconic, considering the death of marginal transexual discourse and action, due to bourgeois and academic elitization in the form of contemporary genre tensions and movements.
Sadly, the film is not well crafted, nor presented. Amateur, with a poor and incohesive narrative. It is plagued with the director voice-over with lackustre insights that harm momentum building.