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Unbroken (2021)
A little overrated
Sorry, people, but I don't share that praise.
Yes, it was quite entertaining and I really wanted to know what happened to Alex.
But six episodes were definitively too much for that story.
The main actress really did quite ok, but often totally overplayed, especially when getting insecure - why that whiny baby voice? She is a tough policewoman?
Then there are so many open threads which are not resolved:
The corruption of Alex' partner - hey, nothing happens and everything is forgotten? As well as the shooting on that Romanian guy to get information?
What happened to Alex as a child what made her so insecure?
What about the fight with her ex-boyfriend: did he just do nothing about her aggression?
Why did they film it in Cologne but pretend it was in Duisburg though the city itself played absolutely no role?
All in all it was a typical German series: a little slow, trying to be very solemn but with some plot holes and a very far fetched plot in the end.
Anne (2017)
Has nothing to do with the original (Cave! Some spoilers!!!!)
I loved Anne of Green Gables since I was a little girl. I saw and loved the 1980s version.....read the books so many times I could tell you what happened on each side....
So I very much looked forward to this netflix adaptation. OK, the makers wanted to have it a little more realistic than the original which wouldn't have been a problem. I didn't object to the scenes when Anne was harassed at the station...or how they showed how she was treated by the fellow orphans in the orphanage....we all could imagine that her life was hard before going to Green Gables and now they show it so imagination is not necessary anymore - OK.
But then they started to absolutely destroy the story!
There was absolutely no sense in Anne making sexual remarks about Prissy and Mr. Phillips. What for? To have a reason why the Avonlea people dislike her?
Why should all the children harass Anne for being an orphan? That never happened! The girl LM. Montgomery invented was a nice and friendly girl which was liked by the most and envied by some (e.g. Josie Pye, who was the only one, who disliked her). It was so charming that Anne finally found some love and respect in Avonlea - why take that away?
Marilla was a well respected member of the community - why should anybody change that? Nobody insulted her nor would she ever have accepted such behaviour as the "young mothers" showed. Why change that????? Why make her a disrespected woman? What for???
Gilbert had a wonderful family! His father was sick, yes, that's why he lost some time in school. But then he was healthy again and Gilbert was the wonderful boy he was. And for he had such a wonderful life Anne always thought he couldn't be the right for her - she thought she looked for something darker and deeper (thank God we know that she knew better later....;-. So why change that? Gilbert, the bright, intelligent boy, who wants to be a doctor - and now he is an orphan like Anne, must work at the docks and tries to get on a ship "to see the world"? Why??????
Marilla and Matthew were hard workers who were proud of what they have reached: a wonderful successful farm. Why make such a whimsy loser of Matthew, who cannot hold the farm? Who doesn't trust his sister? And why add a (dead) brother who never existed? Just what for?
If this was a series about any adopted girl even in Canada I would have accepted it and maybe had gone on watching. Good acting, kind of interesting stories. But to borrow well established characters to make my own story simply is not OK.
I really don't understand that they didn't just invent their own characters. But surely it is easier to attract an audience who loves the characters already, right? But the risk is they will be so badly disappointed - like me. And I have stopped after half of episode 5 and don't think I will go on watching again.
This horrible new story lines so got on my nerves I stopped watching and have put the DVDs of the 80s version into my player. And now I can recover again.
3 stars though for the good acting and the quite interesting story.