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We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)
A movie about childhood lost
And teenage angst dealing with mortality and self awerness.
The protagonist deals with the feeling most of of us go through during our teenage years; the angst of one self, the angst of how other view us and facing the fact we all die at a point in our lives.
I have re-watched this movie now 3 times, and every time coming to a better understanding of it (I hope).
For me, ,it deals with a teenager facing the void of the world, facing, that they are nothign special but just a human among other living humans. Also the longing to be something more than that, to be special, in this case making videos, uploading and accepting a challange in the hopes of someone noticing them.
It is a hardfelt truth for many of us, who try to make a name for themselves in a niche amist of thousands of people that try to do the same thing.
Her wish came through though, she eanted to dissapear. In the end she did, and it was sad and left the remainers with the question, why?
It was for me a sad movie with the topic of teenage angst, multiplied with today's multimedia.
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The Empty Man (2020)
Good and bad
A bit of an odd one, not a very bad one at all, but with a lot of plotholes.
The intro does make sense in the end, it's a good and scary one and makes you go into Lovecraftian vibes.
When the main stpry starts, it's engaging from the get go. The main actor is really good at playing a former cop which starts to investigate a disappearance.
The atmosphere is solid and mysterious, with no jump scares or the usual overused tropes in horror (although I would place this as a lovecraftian movie in the end).
My problem was with the youth that offed themselves, why would the empty man kill them? Was is just a hallucination from the main character? It made absolutely no sense. And making no sense, is that the people that had some history/memory of the tulpa (main character) all of a sudden forgot about him ,like pulling a switch. Who did that? Collective thought?
The movie in the end reminded me a lot of Hereditary- a cult which controlled the main character with every turn so in the end it would be to the benefit of that sait cult. The main character had no say in his future what so ever.
This movie had some very good and bad parts (mainly polot holes). It's ok but a tad long.
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
I never thought I'd write this...
But here is an Ari Aster movie I absolutely cannot stand.
Where to start? Way too long, way too convoluted Like it was trying to be smarter than it was. If it tried to make fun of mental trauma or illness others have done it better. If it was trying to portray mental illness or trauma, other has done it better and in less time. It was predictable (which I would never thought I would say about an Ari Aster movie...).
It was like some acid trip (never taken one but imagine that how it would be), and a bad one at that.
I understand the movie, I understand what the director was going for, but it just flopped.
The only star I give is to Joaquin Phoenix's preformance.
Smile (2022)
Better than many but still very predictable
When I say many I mean most of the mainstream horror these days.
It was still very predictable and I felt like watching It follows/Hereditary/truth or dare. I also saw more elements from other well established movies, but I am not in the mood to dissect the details If you know, you know.
I knew in advance every turn this movie had but hoped it would end differently than I thought. It did not. If you are in for the usual run of the mill horror with borrowed awesome elements from other more original horror movies then go for it, but know all the good stuff in this movie was taken from others..