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Se7en (1995)
Pseudo
Brad Pitt is not likable, completely uninteresting. Want him to die as quickly as possible so Morgan Freeman can get more screen time. Saw the ending coming miles away. And then the film just dragged along at 10 mph wanting to involve me in a drama about Pitts characters final decision regarding whet ever to kill in anger or control himself. Oh-ho! Guess what happens!
This movie should have been done from the serial killers pov - with him as the hero and Freeman as the real anti-hero. And a different actor than Pitt- Has he ever played something that goes beyond 2D?
It is a pseudo-artsy film with no real depth. A postulate. A mental exercise without any real drama. Bad script and bad script directing. Fincher don't know how to tell his story. He only got it right in Fight Club.
Sult (1966)
Existential Comedy
Most people see this film as a sort of tragedy, but in my eyes it is a beautiful comedy comparable to Beckett's "Waiting for Godot". It narrows in on the fundamentals of the human condition, and the main character - like Beckett's - is a 'clown'-figure, a man who can't help himself, who has a fatal dent in his character, which always make him 'trip' and fall. It's like watching an existential, intellectual version of Chaplin's famous vagabond. And the ending, Pontus sailing away from the city in the fog, on an unknown ship, headed God knows where, is a classical fool-comedy-ending - there's no place in society for a man like him, so he leaves on the fools ship. One of the best Danish films ever.