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The Crowded Room (2023)
It's ok, but nothing mind blowing or real new
It was quite obvious where it's going and there was a lot of movies about it before. I hoped for something new in the subject, but it didn't bring it.
Good acting, Tom Holland surprised me positively. But there is nothing there to watch it again.
Maybe if someone never watched anything about MPD, it will be a good one.
Also, no idea why it's set in the 70s. Yeah, cool clothes and set design but why does it matter? Because of this I kept expecting some information about the real events that it's based on, but nothing like that was said or suggested.
Overall it was ok but nothing really good or surprising.
Sala samobójców. Hejter (2020)
Obvious. No drama. Not really interesting.
It's obvious with its story. I was constantly looking for something that will surprise me. It didn't.
The motivations of characters are stretched and not really set in their lives. I am guessing the director "knows more" than he shows. And it comes across like he doesn't actually have a better idea for why would they act the way they act.
There is no real drama. I don't care about anyone. So the events happening don't move me at all.
Also the way the main character moves through life and jumps from one amazing place to another, ace-ing in all of them - how the hell he is not some amazing genius from the beginning? Why he is introduced as some lame old-timer with no brain? Why the family hates him and laughs their asses when he leaves the room? Seriously, he is portrayed as some incel, and then not only we learn that he is social media marketing genius, destroying politicians after 3 months in his first job, but also having sex with his boss. So what happened with the incel?
And more like that, I don't want to give too much spoilers away.
The changes in the family and how they treat Tomek, constantly switching from laughing to accepting him to removing him from their lives and then again one small event and bam - he is back in. Really? Constant roller coaster and I have no idea why. Are they that awful that shallow? Maybe they are. But then this is why I don't care about a single person there.
I am disappointed, I expected much more from this director.
Tell Me Who I Am (2019)
Heartbreaking and fascinating story. But not great documentary
The story is fascinating. Both - just losing memory by Alex, and that his brother basically gave him all the memories, builded his past for him. And then - the fact that he actually removed all those bad things from the memories and created the good life, even if the reality was so different.
It's fascinating on so many different levels. Yet the movie does not explore any of those. It just touches on a surface, without really going deeper into what it meant, for both of them.
And then - when you have already learned that abuse happened in their childhood and that Marcus have covered it all up, feeling it will be better for Alex to never know - then you learn that until this day, the day of filming, Alex didn't have a chance to learn what this abuse actually meant. His brother gave him only one line: yes, mother abused us sexually- and that's it.
Ok, so will we hear more now?
And how the story goes now, it actually turns me into some sort of vulture. I am now waiting to hear all the details.
They put the brothers together in front of the camera to finally talk.
I feel weird. Will they share it now? In the 15 mins that's left? How? If this was so deep and bad, where is the space for the movie to walk me through those awful events, walk the brothers through this intense conversation, and still have time to shake those emotions away after?
And then I am sort of relieved: oh, it seems that they prerecorded this testimony and only Alex will hear it, will watch it on his laptop and I will not actually witness it. Ok.
But then - no. They actually show me Marcuses testimony. I am not sure if I should be listening.
Ok, let's get ready, it will be heartbreaking, for him, and for me...
And then - two sentences. And we are done. It's awfully short. But not because the director actually decided to respect their privacy. No, he already have exploited the scandalous story, and hey, 5 mins left till the movie has to end.
Then the brothers hug. I very much see how the one who knew the truth all these years - was actually relieved that he finally told his brother everything. I see it. I am not sure if the director sees it. He doesn't give him time. Doesn't give me time. And the main character of this story - Alex, who has now learned that whole awful story - is left to the short "ok, ok, I needed it, ok, bye", movie ends.
I felt like they were both exploited to share something so private, awful and scary that they couldn't share with each other for 30 years - and it was made to look almost trivial.
There is so much in their story to explore. So many layers and levels. Yet the filmmaker had no idea what he really had. Seems like he cared about this "sex scandal to be revealed", without seeing people he was supposed to portray here.