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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Watermelon (2021)
Weak Season? I don't think so.
It is true that the first 2 episodes were just normal, but for me still funny. The 3rd episode was a little numb, like "The Puerto Rican Day" in the last season of Seinfeld. With funny things, but the overall was lacking.
In this episode, I laughed so much I was almost disturbed. Great comedy bits that just explode while juxtaposed. Very good.
My only critique comes from someone that understands that these problems, stated on this episode, are somewhat not new, and the show takes advantage from that, of course. But it makes me wonder, when will Larry attack the anti-vaxxers and the hypocrites that hide behind such blunt conformity (that clearly comes from fear), when ?
Maybe it is too soon, not even for this season. Maybe the world wants to use Larry David's persona to promote things that most people are afraid to talk about and Larry David himself is self-conscious about this.
I just keep finding thoughts that support this man. His work does have a place in nowadays society.
For me, this season is going well. Keep it coming.
Gangbyeon hotel (2018)
Every Human Being Wants to be Loved
I saw 90% of Hong Sang-Soo's films. I love them all, some more than others, but the overall is pretty up there to me. Honest film-making and unmistakable.
This film is somewhat different from the others on his filmography. In many ways, the camera is closer, and for some reason I felt the Hong Sang-Soo I found on his first film, "The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well" (1996), in many ways the style is similar, but of course, with more experience and awareness. Grass (2017) seemed like the zenith of a certain period, major work on synthesis, if we can compare films, Grass was the sum of 20 years of film-making in a certain style.
But like I said, this film is different, it looks like he restarted in a certain way, like every brave artist does from time to time.
The story takes place in a Hotel near river where a father (a famous) writer receives his sons and then there is another story about a woman, who was left by her partner for another woman, that spends time in another apartment with her friend.
I don't want to spoil anything, but the major theme seemed to be about love, the necessity, to be love, to be loved and how people strive so much to cope with their notion of love, how it affects them, what makes them do, etc...
Every human being wants to be loved, this is what I felt in the end. A very good film, a necessary film. Thank you Hong Sang-Soo.