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You've Been Trumped (2011)
This is a must see!
This film is a documentary about how predatory capitalism stile, with the help of the government, effects people, environment and science.
The best thing you can do to the wonderful profession of film making is: watch this film and give human decency, integrity, bravery, skill and modesty a chance to catch you.
It's a great film. Every minute watching worth while. But don't keep the experience and your thoughts about it to yourself.
We need to stop to give our attention and listening to people like Trump and this film made me realize that it is very important to shift what we have: attention, time, money and action to what we want more of.
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Nice cinematography, interesting images, that isn't enough for me
Most of this review was written after I had watched about half of the movie.
Nice cinematography, interesting images don't make a real good movie for me. That is not enough.
In the first about 45 minutes I had some interesting moments watching the film. I am sorry, but it was at times comical to me, which I enjoyed. And there were moments of understanding, the dispute: first the body, than the soul or the other way round. A discussion and dispute you can take as a blueprint of disputes of mankind in general. Which concept is the right one, and nobody wants to admit, that you can't really know, you can only decide for yourself which concept you follow.
But then more and more the film becomes telling the good old bible story, and than it was no more good to me, more and more boring...
What the film made very clear to me, how ridiculous the story is, our whole western culture and civilization is build upon. The dialog and the "events" make it so much clear, if you don't believe in the truth in or behind it.
I think the film should be part of the content of a time capsule, so that hopefully there will be a time in which people watch it and can't find the clue why this story became such a success and frightened the hell out of millions and millions of people, so they believed it and built everything upon it....
The film didn't convey any convincing emotions to me. The involved characters and Jesus just felt not really emotionally involved enough in their convictions, which seem to have come out of the blue - : "God told me so, I didn't understand it myself at first". But you can't really feel or are convinced that: "now, I finally understand". ...
A quite interesting casting of Americans and Arabs(?) for the characters, guess who is who. Maybe Scorsese should have transfered the whole set of the story to New York. That would have been more convincing, I guess, but would have been a very different kind of project.
I finally made it through the film, but not without skipping scenes. If you are not a believer of the story, it is unlikely to be interested enough to watch this interpretation.
To sum it up. Without believing the words they are saying, the film was not able to convince me through the images or the emotional involvement/portrayal of the characters (the acting is not persuasive enough).
The film failed to does to me what it was set out to do. In my opinion you need to believe the story in advance, otherwise it is tiresome to watch it. I could only watch it with the spectator's thought, that it is really impressive how much people who want to believe something, seem to be able to believe almost anything. IMHO it was a waste of money and time to make and watch this movie, not to mention the waste of the tantrums at the time of it's release. I can think of thousands of better projects to invest in.
English is not my first language and I don't have to use it often enough, that's why I hope I was able to say in some degree what I really wanted to.
Melancholia (2011)
Awful and in a strange way helpful
This was the best anti-depressant I have ever experienced.
If you want to see, feel and experience how much depression can be energy consuming and destructive, especially when it is a depression at the edge of insanity - than watch this movie. (Energy consuming: E.g. during the second part it was extremely difficult for me not to fall asleep.)
I have problems with depression myself from time to time. And this film showed me in an incomparably impressive way how much depression is my enemy and not my friend, because it destroys.
I had a very bad night after watching this film - and the really good it did me was, that I decided, NO: I won't worship a person who is very much narcissistic, egocentric and it seems to me more insane than sane. I am sad about a society that worships people like Lars von Trier (don't get me wrong, I don't despise him). And I understand maybe in a deeper way as before, that depression can be extremely destructive and that I want to fight it or help myself out of it and don't want to worship or romanticise the destructive side of it (I think I romanticised it sometimes too). Lars von Trier himself explained in an interview, that this film is also romantic - he chose a romantic piece of music to give it the romantic touch.
I can understand why Lars von Trier understands Hitler, because I think he understands how much Hitler was insane and egomaniac. And to give insane people power is the most destructive thing you can do.
In my opinion people like Lars von Trier should get treatment as much as possible and better not get the opportunity to earn a lot of attention and money out of the insane side of his personality.
I would very much have appreciated that all the money and time that is lost for this film was invested in finding more ways out of depression or anything that is destructive in this world. You can call me idealistic - but you can also call me pragmatic.
I like that Lars von Trier said in an interview, that he feels guilty doing melancholia. Guilt seems to be in place: as a viewer I felt kind of used - he wanted to treat himself with this film and the film gave me a bad feeling and a very bad night after watching it. Maybe I felt a little bit like with my mother, she want's me to "worship" her narcissistic and destructive behaviour too (the difference is that she doesn't realise it and doesn't feel guilty).
I am giving this film 2 stars: one for awful and the other for the fact that this film made me realise in a very strange but intensive way that I myself will do what I can to find positive ways to overcome the destructive and that I don't approve of giving a narcissistic and insane mind your attention and call it's product a masterpiece.
The fact, that I have learned my lesson, would never make me recommend to watch this film, although there are some minutes worth while watching. I suppose you can find these scenes at youtube (the worth while watching prologue is on - but please don't jump at conclusions if you like it, the movie is much different).