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American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders (2024)
Look at me, I'm just like Danny Casolaro
There were alot of speculations, but no real evidence, also it began to dawn on me that it wasn't the main focus of the documentary. It was more all about the murder on Casolaro, great if you like true crime, but I was hoping to see some convincing evidence based documentary about a conspiracy that would explain some of the decisions made in the last 50 years in American goverment. Instead I got a family portrait of Danny Casolaro, some fanatic "insider" that's supposed to be "highly intellegent" and off course the main focus a filmmaker and so-called journalist who think they are revealing anything but making this an ego piece that somewhat shifted from "we're going to reveal something" from "hey look i'm just like Danny Casolaro, maybe i get clipped too", let's repeat the things we said the first episode and "does my hair look like danny's hair ? Wow so cool..." This was actually a pile of incoherent ego-stuff. Nothing was really explained. There weren't any high profile talking heads confirming or arguing the so-called "evidence" wich made it looked biased and dumb. And I'm sometimes very biased. I'm far from a right-wing republican. It was all 4 episodes of repeating that Casolaro was murderded and it was a waist of time. And why wouldn't he killed himself ? It looked like the lovable charismatic guy his career wasn't going anywhere and he was deep in some kind of unexplained typical American conspiracy to initially make a work of fiction, because he was a fiction writer, not an investigating journalist! There were actually no real journalists in this documentary. It was made for the easily misled conspiracy people by the same kind of people. It should be called "Look at me, I'm just like Danny" 3 stars for production values and for the little information that I got that didn't prove anything but made me think (as a non-american).
The Devil All the Time (2020)
A Dark comedy ?
From the narration, the performances by an excellent cast and the overall theme of the story I was under the impression this was a dark comedy. But after reading some reviews for "The Devil All the Time" I ain't sure anymore. Off course it looks like some kind of pshycohological thriller or a twisted drama, but than the narrator comes in I'm already laughing out loud. If this wasn't a dark comedy or some kind of satire on religion than I lost my faith in my own judgement of watching films. There were scenes that I found twistedley (is that a word?) funny , especially the scenes with Michael Pattinson and Jason Clarke.
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021)
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make me... Human ?
A very straight-forward endless parade of compliments by everybody from Elton John to Bill Clinton. Not that she deserves anything less. Mrs. Warwick is one of the all time greats. What really anoyed me from the start was me thinking there was something wrong with my TV. Everything was so digitally polished that the people looked like computer-animated cartoons or filtered profile pictures on tinder. It was at some point terrible to watch at. Maybe it was just the lightning (wich I doubt) People in their 70's/80's looking younger (weirder) than ever. Wich is very ironic because all and all it's all about soul. Yet everybody looked soulles. I hope this doesn't become a trend in biographical documentary's. I like my humans to look like, I don't know, humans...