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Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
Stuck in the past
This film is about being stuck in the past. First Nicolas Cage (Hero) commits a big crime with his friend (aka Psycho) and gets sent to prison. When he finally gets out of jail, he learns that he has to complete a certain mission before a certain amount of time has passed in order to be fully redeemed, and so the film begins. Along the way he meets Psycho and some other people who are stuck in the past. At the end of the film he saves everyone from their past and everyone starts to live freely in the present.
I think Hero was meant to portray a criminal who, even after spending time in prison, still needs some kind of redemption to be able to return to society once he is inside, people thought this was impossible and he is indefinitely labelled as "guilty" in people's eyes, but this changed as he helped people he met along the way.
Bernice is helped by a powerful man (the governor) but is also abused by him. In the end she kills the governor and this symbolises that even if people have been good to us, if they abuse us, we should not think about that past and continue to act as if it was no abuse at all.
The overall idea and theme was good, but the characters and dialogue were too simple. I suppose Sion wanted to make fun of Hollywood action movies, and while that's a good idea, it was done far too aggressively.
PS: Hats off to cinematographer Sohei Tanikawa, this was one of the most visually appealing films I have ever seen.
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Growing up in the "lonely media" culture
First of all, it's very obvious that this film has some ideas about LGBT culture and the process of coming out as these people get older. Now I can understand that this is one of the main themes that the film wants to show, but it is still barely present in the film.
I think the film focuses more on growing up in a lonely media culture, and that is really the main aspect of the film. I call it a solitary media because you don't really have a place to share your ideas and the things that you experience, but you might have some people that you know that are experiencing them. As a result of similar childhoods, I think that when people grow up, they simply think that they are not well understood by others and mostly feel melancholic. Some of them are brave enough to fight against this, even if it is not visible (Maddy), and some of them just leave their lives in the hands of fate (Owen).
Overall, the art direction is perfectly done, the music is great and the film is tense and full of emotion for every minute. The only thing that could have been improved for me is the pacing, which unfortunately prevents this from being a perfect film.
Crossing (2024)
Culturally Representative, Realistic Movie
I think this movie would be highly acclaimed by watchers that are not familiar to life in Turkey, since it introduces the life in Istanbul, which is quite different from the life in Europe overall. I watched this with a friend and while he enjoyed and surprised by the things presented, I was already familiar to most of these problems or events that occurs during the movie.
As a culturally representative movie, I think it is a great one but in terms of overall story development, acting and filmography I feel like it lacks and can be improved on these aspects. The story only improves at the beginning and the end of the film, which results with watching those culture inducing scenes which the Turkish population is already very aware of.
Overall I recommend this movie to people who did not visit or lived in Turkey at least for a month.
Blackpink: The Movie (2021)
Not like a movie, even if the title says so.
Before I went for this in local cinema, i watched netflix documentary of black pink and I was expecting similar kind of an experience but it was no where near that. This movie contains clips from older blackpink concerts, and nothing more really. It is totally made for people who are die hard fan of black pink (blinks) and if you enjoy music and documentary genre movies but if you are not a fan, better dont watch this one.
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
A Good Movie About Life
Tokyo Sonata. The main fuel of this movie is hard times that people encounter. This movie is not something abstract in my opinion, its very concrete in the way of telling the story. I believe that, characters in this movie designed in a way that even if the story is concrete and its something that people can come across every day, you can feel characters feelings and this adds a little bit of abstractness to it as well.
To sum this up Tokyo Sonata has succeeded in showing sides of life that we all know in a striking way that does not bore the watchers.