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Reviews
Screen Two: Northanger Abbey (1987)
I love it!
I've read all but one publication of Jane Austin's past being able to count how many times, her books are excellent at capturing people as they are, and I love them. The last book she wrote, I read, but only once. Northanger Abbey is based on Catherine's love of reading gothic novels, and how she has imagined the circumstances of her life away from home. Sure, this adaptation is not verbatim to the book, and in places is "based on the novel" only, it maintains the feel of the book and its characters. Some based on book movies are 100% of the novel, but they lack the feeling you have while actually reading the novel. This adaptation is my favorite.
Hipersomnia (2016)
A surreal trip into human trafficking
This is my take on it as a non-bi-lingual person,and I couldn't Netflix it with subtitles. It was creepy, surreal, suspenseful, and managed to throw in a seemingly sympathetic bad guy that ends up wearing a leather mask and wielding a knife and jars of creepy bugs and worms.
I don't speak The language, so I may have bits squed, but what it looked like it starts with is a woman not wanting sex with her boyfriend because the play that she is rehearsing for has her playing a woman who's being an abused held captive sex worker. When she sleeps she dreams the part she is acting is real, and that she is the character that she is playing. Her dreaming becomes visions while she is awake, and it's hard to tell if she is the actress dreaming the "prostitute" or the "prostitute" dreaming the actress.
There is a lot going on in the movie, and I would love to watch it with subtitles. If you love watching creepy movies with some suspense, violence, and a guy in a creepy leather face mask thrown in near the end, don't let the synopsis of just being a human trafficking movie, or lack of subtitles and no understanding of Argintinian throw you off from watching it.
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Well done story
I absolutely loved this movie, it's not the average, you know what to expect in a vampire movie. Adam and Eve are intelligent without being snobbish and boring, and have a believable relationship with each other. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton have got a laid back groove, and make this movie work. Mia Wasikowska, whom I have loved in every part I've seen her in, plays the annoying sister of Eve. She nailed the part big time.
400 Days (2015)
Interesting watch!
This is an interesting movie with an amazing cast. A lot of reviews on here indicate that the movie lacked a real ending. I recommend watching it for yourself, and getting your own take on it. What I personally got out of it is that the whole thing was, unknown by the four astronauts, "reality TV" for 400 days, an extreme, psychological Big Brother. Cameras recording them 24/7, even night vision cameras on the "planet surface". At the end, the congratulating video with the applause, then the hatch opening, with bright light shining down at the end after all of that primitive darkness.
This movie will make you think, I highly recommend watching it!