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Shadow in the Cloud (2020)
It's always been the same old song...
Some ( or most?) guys have heavy problems with action movies done by female actors and even more by female directors. Know this since the days of Geena Davis, Charlize Theron and here Mrs. Liang and Mrs. Moritz. Guys this flic is not for you, it is for femals. Which means around 50% of the worlds population. Got it? And yes women feed babys with their breasts. They can do it. Maybe some are angry because they can't... OK, the movie. It is about wartime but not a reality-near masterpiece as "The Outpost" (not one woman around, you like it). And it is not a lesson in physical realism. This is comic, bizarre and wild. Reminds me to a very special female joke, a short one: Two hunters meets... Uuups... The set inside the B-17C ist well done. Special the claustrophobia inside the machine gun cabin. That cabins were deathtraps for the gunners. Cloe is acting like hell in this scenes. Also her artistic action is very impressing (forget the physics).She plays a woman with all female emotions to offer in her strongest way: protecting her baby. Hell, get out of my way... Like the cat monster too. It is horror, but not to much. All the action and cgi is well done. For the budget impressive. To have in mind this is not an US production it is from New Zealand. A small country, population is around 3,5M not more. For movie industry less important. Culture is deeply british what gives a special sense. The men in the plot are portrait in a way like women were in old movies from that time the movie plays. Just objects and staffage. This production is other more interesting then the typical streaming offered today, sorry for that.. But for me nowadays streaming is what they called dime novels in the old days.. Read it, watch it and forget it.. cheap in all ways and mostly done in the same concept. To deliver thrills, get the intention of the audience. Not to switch off. This little peace of art i think is more. OK done. One last remark to the trivia. The british RAF in WW2 had female flight staff in combat missions too. Special with the B-17.
Nitro (2007)
very very hard stuff
Well sometimes people miss understand a piece of art completely. For commercial reasons this is if a product is labeled not exactly what it is really containing. Call it action and it gives you a market for example. Other example, "The Wrestler". For some folks, younger folks maybe it is an action movie defined by the fighting components. For me as an elder man this components are part of the story but not the story itself. Just decoration and necessary to tell the real story. I watched "Nitro" by coincidence. Some of this funny Canadian variations of US mentality. I thought. Let's waste some time and watch it. Tarantino is named here. I as European will never understand this director and his art as an US American understand it. For me his kind of art is not really necessary. For me "Nitro" has nothing to do with this. Like "The Pet" has nothing to do with sex, bondage, S/M or anything porn. The film smashed my easy watching attempt completely. It is a very very hard story told in a surprising way. But i could stand it, was not forced to switch off. Cause also for me it's a story about love. And it's limitations. The limitations of our human existence. Whom do we really love, other persons or ourself? What is our struggle for, to help beloved persons or to cover our needs and pain? It's a film about the absolutely tragedy of some people linked by love or what they believe love is. Without any terms of religion. A story of loosen souls shifting around in a world they can't stand. A story of how to accept what you can not accept, death. And a very sad story, stays there anything left of their love? A movie that ask questions and leave them open. A very unusually movie.