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Die Friseuse (2010)
God-awful
Hairdresser Kathi is fat but good-spirited. This is the plot. There is nothing else going on. Instead this movie tries to tell you very hard and very unconvincing that you're a winner if you're in a good mood and you smile everything away. Really. There's nothing going on there. Except a subplot about illegal vietnamese immigrants. Kathi helps them, they leave, nothing really happens between them, end of subplot. Oh yeah, and a subplot about her daughter who hates her mother. Suddenly, without apparent motive, she loves her. Then the little one leaves her mom behind for America - beside the fact that Kathi becomes seriously ill. At the end, Kathi is TOTALLY alone. Kathi doesn't seem to care, she stays optimistic. We don't know why. We do not care, either. Nothing works in this movie. Nothing - not even Kathi's business plan for her own hairdresser salon - makes ANY sense at all. And before you ask: All this is god-awful UNFUNNY!
The Green Mile (1999)
Insulting
This movie very subtly hides it's ideology: sadism is not okay, but death penalty and the system that supports it are okay. Criminals are criminals, the death penalty is shown as the most natural consequence on earth. Like fate. Eye for an eye. The criminals are shown as kids. It's a perverted sitcom situation in a death row, with Tom Hanks as the father figure. Disgusting. And there's racism, too: John Coffee is Uncle Tom, has the mind of a 3 years old. A white man must reflect what's happening with Coffee, a white must command him.
The "spiritual" events are only superficial. They distract from the basic questions this movie cowardly avoids. About crime, punishment, remorse, duty. And why a Christian society thinks that it is okay to kill criminals.
Highly overrated and self-important movie