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Movies the giraffe watched in 2020: April (33 movies items)

4 years, 7 months ago

VierasTalo rated Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

 Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist 10/10

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Episodes: 12 Seasons: 1 Fuck me fucking ugly crying for fucking 20 minutes at the end of this show god damn

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VierasTalo rated Barry

 Barry 8/10

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Episodes: 16 Seasons: 2

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4 years, 9 months ago

VierasTalo rated Feel Good

 Feel Good 10/10

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Episodes: 6 Seasons: 1

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VierasTalo rated I Am Not Okay with This

 I Am Not Okay with This 4/10

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Watched in 2020 (66 movies items)

4 years, 10 months ago

VierasTalo rated Jojo Rabbit

 Jojo Rabbit 4/10

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As a condemnation of fascism, though it is quite correct and obviously well-intentioned, I really feel like the approach of making this a tidy, clean studio picture takes away a fair amount of the edge of that condemnation. It's sort of like holding a sophisticated tea party as a form of protest. As a showcase of the evil of fascism it falls on the same sword so many have before it, sanitizing the evils of war by portraying all of it in a clean, sterile fashion. It works when we're talking small, intimate moments (a certain hanging corpse comes to mind), but absolutely does not function when the turmoil of all-out war is going on. It just never hits an emotional note despite clearly trying to do exactly that. This could be very good if it was made with a less of a polish someone like Waititi has brought to all his projects since Wilderpeople.

4 years, 10 months ago

VierasTalo rated Kids Return

 Kids Return 8/10

4 years, 10 months ago

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OK maybe I did give this like an extra star just because that Joe Hisaishi score slaps so damn hard But it's a good movie by all accounts. Kind of taking this somewhat Buddhist cyclical approach to some lovable goofballs turning into flawed adults successfully highlights the tragic nature of the ordeal. Everyone is at the top of their respective games from Kitano's smooth-as-butter flow from shot to shot, scene to scene, and even bit parts like Moro Morooka's Hayashi being played to a T (that hunch is too real!). Interestingly, though it kind of ends on the vaguest notion of hope (or at least a statement on how this isn't really a loss of innocence -story as that innocence still exists to an extent), this feels like a movie built to make you feel hope while showing quite little of it. It does such a good job building up these people that you have to have some hope for them to turn out good in the end even if all facts the movie presents you point to the opposite. As such, it's cynical nature never feels overt or insurmountable. It gives it a very real flavor that's rare in film, especially ones that cover not only the youth of the characters but also the growing up of them. It's hard to get that playfulness and that progress towards mundanity under one roof and Kitano does it.

4 years, 10 months ago

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Movies the giraffe watched in 2020: January (29 movies items)

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4 years, 10 months ago

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The first dud in my attempts to fill out that map on my Letterboxd stats page, this folk tale from Niger tells of a fisherman who sells a fish to a king for way too much money so the king tries to have him killed in an elaborate scheme that backfires to the point where he has to give the guy the whole "you married the princess" thing of getting half the kingdom. The most interesting part of this film is the etnographic perspective, as it was shot in a small village and most of the actors are probably people director/writer/narrator Moustapha Alassane knew. The result of that is a lot of people just doing whatever they please from ignoring stage direction to just straight staring at the camera. Alas, the film never really receives much potency, being a fairly straight telling of the tale, but the closing shots of our leads in extreme close-ups, covered in extreme shadows, are rather striking. As is the closing line of forgiveness. I guess I mostly hope this took a bit less a leisurely pace about itself as even with just 23 minutes of runtime this occasionally feels a bit much.

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