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Constellation (2024)
The quantum world works slowly
Not sure if these really are spoilers but I've warned you anyway.
By episode 5 I really couldn't care less who's a quantum version of who and why it even matters. It's evident that the special CAL thing did something weird up in space.
There's more than one version of the main characters, and they all run about being confused most of the time, as are we the viewer.
There's a lot of snow involved at the beginning and end, and two poor young girls who had to pretend to understand what was going on, in order to act the part.
I cheated and read a spoiler on what the heck goes on in the last episode, and it appears to be characters jumping around from one universe to another, but not in a terribly interesting way.
I love the whole quantum world and made my own quantum super-computer in my garden shed - but none of this 'duplicate' stuff happened to me. Or did it?
Killing Eve: Are You Leading or Am I? (2020)
Too late to be redeemed
My daughter summed it up: she didn't even realise the last episode was the last. Confusing plot, pointless poncing around, no idea WTF was going on. Don't invest in this turkey any more.
High Life (2018)
Bodily fluids
Never have I seen so many bodily fluids in one film.
Interstellar (2014)
Corn dollies
Not sure if you can make sense of the film from this, but here goes:
In a future world people can only eat Sweetcorn and begin to look like the Simpsons. A farmer flies into space, realises he can fix things be sending messages through gravity and space-time back to his daughter, and everything is cool again. A Mr Man tries to screw it all up, but he gets his.
I'm not convinced that this film should be so highly rated. - It's too long - Matthew McMumbly hardly speaks clearly - The story is hard to follow - The maths makes no sense - The boil-in-the-bag cryogenic capsules look bad - The sudden jump from being in a 'singularity' to a hospital bed is bogus - They work out his age by counting the rings in his leg, like a tree, so he's 124 - The set piece speeches about love are silly - It's too Hollywood
Rent Sunshine instead, or Moon which is even better.
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Mulholland Drive / Memento / Donny Darko
**SPOILERS**VS is another Lynch-like effort at non-linear film making. Anyone who finds VS puzzling should watch Donny Darko and try to understand time travel, then watch Memento, firstly watch the black and white scenes, then the colour ones. Then finally, with a good grip on your sofa, watch Mulholland Drive and you'll really have a head ache!
VS is mid-way between Memento & Mulholland, it's quite easy to understand at the end so not so challenging, but the cinematography is lovely to watch, personally I didn't care for the obvious "soundtrack album" music, I'd rather have an orchestral background, but my girlfriend liked it.
If you're old enough you should decide whether the Dallas / Bobby Ewing 'dream' plot line is a fore-runner of all 'dream' plots that followed.
My girlfriend felt that the ending was a swiz and that it was too simple an explanation for the weird events in the film. Our 11 year daughter is told never to end stories with "and it was a dream".
Spoilers.
I was a little puzzled that he appeared to have actually died before they froze him, so how would he dream if already dead unless they can resurrect the dead? The 'tech support' guy says he's now 150 years in the future, so until then, surely they couldn't bring him back to life whilst cryogenically frozen. Anyway, much like Star Trek, the technology isn't important.