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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021)
Complete experience about the case
In my honest opinion, people really didn't get the point of the movie. The Elisa Lam case surely summoned lots of topics to be discussed.
The first one, and the one we should stay attached to, is the criminal version of the case. Elisa had mental issues, and due to her denial of taking her pills she had some sort of panic attack, tried to run from her own mind and ended up drowning in the water tank in order to hide herself, so it wasn't a suicide neither a murder. That's the veredict.
Bur the film also explores the conspiracy theories about the case, which were a fundamental part of the story, basically the reason why it got so famous.
So no, the movie doesn't add any theory about the case, it only explores all the things that made the case so famous and it's true veredict.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Genuine, but people REALLY missed the point
I herad and saw people camplaining about how Bandersnatch just keeps looping, leading you to a chosen path. But that's the exact point of the whole movie.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is a genuine movie, because it shows how we think that we are controling our lives, now more than ever due to technology access, but we are not. Not only the plot of the movie says that, but the whole idea of making your decisions end in a loop (if you're not taking the ones that you was suppost to) also does it, because you keep thinking that you control the storyline of the movie, but you don't, settling a brilliant conexion between real life and the movie.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Simply an imortal piece of cinematographic art.
When i first watched this movie, all that i could think was "how they did this in 1968?". The movie was realised 9 years before Star Wars, and the space scenes are even more fantastic. The whole scenario of the movie is fantastic, from the beginning to the end. For example, the monkeys scene was shot in front of a white screen, and the background is actually a projection that had to be done by using a glass at a certain angle, so that the image could be directioned to the screen with no shadow from the actors and the scenario on it. A genuine masterpiece that show us that Kubrick really wanted to produce awesome movies.
Puting classic music to play along with the movement of the spaceships is just amazing, as if it was like ballet movements. Also when those songs were composed people didn't even have access to electricity, settling a conexion between this obsolet past with a high-tech future.
The film also introduces us to a man x robot plot, once that Hal, in order to not be turned off and to have the control of the ship, locks the astronauts outside. It's also increadable that, at the edge of the Cold War, Kubrick showed us U.S.A. and USSR working together, showing that we could advance more if we start working together.
The final scene is just the most perfect ending i have ever seen, my jaw was reaching the other side of the planet.
Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929)
An absolute piece of art.
I took a course in my college that was about "Cinema and History". When i first entered the room, i saw "Soviet Cinema" on the screen and i thought "Oh boy, here we go". So my teacher started talking about it and showed us this movie. I haver never seen a mute movie before, but i was just mesmerized by it. No words were being spoken, and i just couldn't get my eyes off the screen. The soundtrack is genuine, the pictures sequences are just poetic, showing us that cinema is not about explositions, crazy stories and this kinf of thing, but it's about how much smart the whole movie is, from the audio-visual content to the story.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
A good comedy show, but i don't think it's that good.
Almost everyone that i know talked about how Brooklyn Nine-Nine was awesome, better than Friends, the best comedy show ever. It also was the most watched show on Netflix here in Brazil for several weeks. So i got excited and started watching it.
The show is good, the characters are very unique and remarkable, but the jokes are way too forced, unatural, like when Doug Judy and Jake sing together, and almost always predictable, like someone says "this won't happen" and that exactly thing happens right after.
I guess i can't ignore the social side of the show. We are introduced to characters that compose various social groups, with episodes that summon social plots that involve the characters of the show, which i think it's great.
I would give a 7,8.
Je ne suis pas un homme facile (2018)
Funny and it makes you think
Most of comedy movies are just movies whose plots aim nothing but people's laughs. But "Je ne suis pas un homme facile" is a funny movie, excellent for making you laugh, have fun, chill and to make you "wear the woman's shoes" by making men to play their social roles and "vice versa".