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Stric (2022)
Just not good
The plot is too thin. Nothing, literally nothing happens until a little over half of the movie (Kaja's appearance), and after those five minutes, nothing happens until the end. So, if you wanted to tell the whole story, it would take you 15 seconds in words or approximately three minutes in movie scenes. Everything else is just stealing time (which, here, is by the way extended in hours - it's so slow that not only does the movie not catch your attention, it very soon becomes unbeareably boring - half an hour into the movie, I was considering should I watch until the end or not). The photography is nice, the movie is well shot, the costumes are looking good, but what good is that if the plot doesn't make any sense whatsoever? The time connection to today (cellphones) is completely pointless. We start wondering - who is the uncle? What time does he come from? But there never are any new information to support the imagination. The actors are really good, but that's what they are - four really good actors given some really basic situations they had to play. The acting style reminds me a bit of Stoker and it's sometnihg we've already seen a long time ago. I like bizarre movies, but the whole bizarre world attempt here fails because it lacks some bizarre world solutions - it's just a thin story loop leading nowhere. I would far rather watch Lathimos - yes, it's bizarre, it's cruel, it's so over the top, but it has something to be over the top of. A story, to begin with.
Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
I hate her
I'm on the 3rd episode right now, and hopefully something will happen that will change my mind. But so far... Oh God, how I hate her character! Yes, I do understand life is not nice and people can be tough and love and marriage can be sooo messy etc. But the there is a massive disproportion between the two characters (and, yes, I do understand that sometimes, or often, that also happens in real life, but I was hoping that the TV series would actually make me understand both sides of the story, not just focus everything on selfishness of one person - I'll repeat, hopefully, something will happen further on to make me change my mind).
First of all, she's unfriendly (as seen at the beginning of the first episode, while having part in the marriage research).
Second of all, her selfishness is on level pro. Everything she cares about is her own emotions, wishes and dreams not being fulfilled.
Third of all, she has no common sense at all. He constantly tries to bring her back to Earth, even for a minute (if not for anything else, than for the time they've spent together) but she can not hide her disgust (towards him, but actually towards herself not being up to him) and acts upon her own emotions no matter what the stakes are (and, yes, I do understand she can not longer handle the empty marriage, but her attitude and behaviour towards him are so repulsive that I lost all empathy). And yes, a lot of us sometimes care only about our own emotions, but she doesn't care a tiny bit about anyone else around her, including her daughter and her recovery. I hated when she wanted Ava to move to London because 'it would be an adventure for her'. NO! It's a way for you to manipulate both of them to get her where you want her to be because YOU want to move to London. So the situation is because of YOU, and not your daughter, who you've, by the way, left once already. It's a 5 year old kid, these kind of situations are a shock and source of trauma, for crying out loud.
Fourth of all, she disregards everything her husband does (the new furniture is Ikea, and not fancy designer made; his Jewish cooking is so NO etc.). It's like: I'm the queen and everyone else are peasants with no taste! She's so obsessed with herself, it's disgusting.
Fifth of all, she has the nerve to talk about her new fancy life on front of her soon to be ex-husband while he is still in massive recovery and obviously isn't ok with it (she should know better since they've spent years being first friends, than married). That was SO disrespectful.
Sixth of all, when he brings up what he's going through and how he's been handling it (trying psychotherapy as an adult, healthy way of trying to overcome the situation) she yawns. YAWNS. I mean, come on?! Were you really trying so hard to make us dislike her?
Etc. Etc.
OK, the acting is good, but I could NOT stand seeing any more of her anxious face in the first two episodes. I started hating her so much that I'm having trouble watching this further on...