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Los renglones torcidos de Dios (2022)
An ok movie with an hard-to-believe plot
Overall it's not a bad movie, but neither a very good one. Keeps you entertained at times, bored at others but never really satisfied.
The main issues I have with it are:
- it's unnecessary long and unnecessary slow, maybe under the pretense that "slow = artistic", but unfortunately the equation only works when you slow down what matters
- plot twists are ok, unless they make the story more and more fragile. In this case the plot is complex, and in a few occasions a quite fragile one; for instance: patients of the hospital can access keys to anywhere, there are matchers available, windows can be shattered easily, the nursing team seems quite dumb overall and can be easily fooled. How does such a context helps the creation of a believable plot?
- as many Spanish movies, most interpreters overact, so dramatic becomes too dramatic. This was especially true in my opinion with the hospital's director.
Monster (2003)
Chapeau to Theron
Theron does a wonderful job portraying a prostitute whose personal story has been shredded into pieces by the toughness of life. After losing faith and hope in the goodness of men, she develops an increasing affection for a young, insecure lesbian: together they start an adventure where dreams of "normality" fight with everyday reality. Short in money, trying to unsuccessfully getting out of prostitution, the character of Theron enters a spiral of hate and revenge against those men who use her body for their own pleasure without any kindness. When the situation goes out of hand, Aileen/Theron parts the way with her beloved, and the separation will become definitive as police is behind them. Still, as others say, it's hard not to empathize with her even though she's a killer, as the world surrounding her is cruel, unkind, wild and what's unimaginable in a "normal" life becomes everyday reality in a broken one.
Élite (2018)
Moving toward absurd
Few series can keep up the quality of early seasons, but surely Elite seems a winner in losing it at a fast rate: season 6, which I just finished, it's almost complete nonsense, with a plot kept together with stitches: love stories that run for 3 minutes, friendships that last one episode, plenty of bizarre situations that defy common sense, all glued together by sex, alcohol, parties. The depth and intensity of most conversations is comparable to primary school dialogues (between pupils) and the overall objective of including complicated and possibly controversial themes like abortion, transsexuality, social acceptance, poverty and so on is diluted into unsavory flashes that are unable to develop an overall mature discourse.
But it's full of pretty faces, what's to dislike about that! 😜
Update: season 7 slides into the unbereable. The plot is not only absurd, but also boring and Instagram-like. Nothing lasts for more than 30 seconds, emotions are created and disintegrated at a nuclear reactor pace, and the acting has become seriously flawed. It's basically just sex, alcohol and parties for 8 episodes: there must be a physical limit to that, and this season went beyond.
Yara (2021)
An Instagram movie
This is an Instagram movie, in the sense that it seems very hard for the director to focus on the emotions of characters and the development of the story.
In such a heartbreaking case, there's probably a lot of details and happenings before the resolution, and of course some trimming to keep the story running is mandatory. But my impression is that many parts that would have contributed to the epic of the story were skipped or reduced to a couple of minutes, and the result is a washed out movie that resolves everything too quickly and without.
Lupin (2021)
The plot doesn't really hold up
Just watched the first episode and I don't think I'll go ahead with the others. The plot is too weak to make it enjoyable, there's no real smarts in investigations, it's just another millennials' nice-visuals-poor-plot kinda series
The Good Place (2016)
Not that good
I watched season 1 because a work mate suggested it as good comedy. To me, that definition should provide at least an engaging kind of humour, or a good, strong plot.
Being used to traditionally witty comedy (take Frasier as a baseline) I was expecting a much more interesting sense of humour, but I get stuck in some predictable, naive and superficial jokes (really, should we be praising the writers for something like "what the fork?").
Regarding the plot, what was a potentially good idea tries here to stay alive for the thirteen episodes without really going nowhere. Each character is stuck in a superficial portrait that makes it just a caricature, with exaggerated features and no real inner development. The twist at the end of Season 1 is on the same line: a trick that keeps some trite television alive for some more time. An (exaggeratedly) indecisive person is a bad person that deserves hell (or: "a Bad Place")? A serial fund-raiser should be sent to "a Bad Place" only for not being fully involved with each one of the persons she's helping? An (exaggeratedly) bad person in real life should try to become good after death just because is confronting the menace of eternal suffering? These kind of questions are so unnecessary that all of them are not worth any time from anyone.
Giving a 3 because I feel bad giving a 1. But I doubt it to be an ethical development after watching this!