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Reviews
Heart of a Dog (2015)
Nothing to do with dogs
The movie started with nothing but still grey sky for the first five minutes, and then still blue sky for the next five, with a slightly pretentious voice talking about a dream. Ten minutes of nothing on the screen, but I decided to carry on since I'm also eating dinner. Maybe it's just artsy and me, a mortal, can't understand it. But I ended up fast forward for many times. The director of this movie(I reluctantly call it so) tried her best to make something deep, thought provoking, political and philosophical. Wittgenstein was quoted at a point,911 was mentioned a lot. But what she really did was to weave a superficial, self-satisfying monologue about life and death, dogs, and whatever else there is along with bad, amateur camera work. She forgot about her audience. This is not for others, it's for herself. She turned the movie into a bad abstract art that has a weak conveying power. Not impressed.
Session 9 (2001)
Twisted minds and sick joy
I watched this movie without any prior knowledge of it, and I felt really sick after watching it. There is no interesting story line or character, and it's not catching in a puzzling way as some other good horror films do. All it sells is mystic atmosphere and bloody/violent scenes. There is a reason it lost money, it's just not interesting enough, but full of bad manipulation that sometimes failed. The only thing that's worth mentioning is it did start off like a ghost/spirit movie, but surprisingly turned into a murder case. However, that point alone does not earn it many points, because it's not entirely new in horror films.