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Världens vackraste pojke (2021)
Exploitative?
Did anyone else feel really uncomfortable with the way the filmmakers handled Bjorn reading the details surrounding his mother's death?
It's clearly a very traumatic experience for him, and quite right too, but the film makers refuse to cut away, keeping the camera rolling as it edges closer and closer to Bjorn's face.
Now maybe Bjorn requested that they don't shy away from capturing that moment, but it just didn't sit well with me. Particularly from a film whose key angle is the exploration of Bjorn's potential exploitation as a child. Can you really cry "exploitation" whilst being exploitative?
Koko-di koko-da (2019)
Dull. Lifeless. Boring. Coma Inducing. Annoying. Waste of time.
I woke up after a long nights sleep, put this on.... by the end of it, I was so numbed by the chore of sitting through it that I had to go back to sleep. It sucked the life out of me. Do not waste your time. AVOID.
Break the Silence: The Movie (2020)
Shine, Dream, Smile with BTS.
I was late to the party with BTS... i came across them about 6 months on youtube. I was watching lots of unrelated conspiracy videos, a rabbit hole that led me to a video about the fans of BTS. and from there to BTS themselves. Before i knew it, i was consuming BTS content like there was no tomorrow. I was hooked. I was in love. I was a fan.
The whole package of BTS just brings pure joy. The songs, the message, the costumes, the make up, the stage shows, the dance routines, and the individual members themselves.... all of it has been a light of glory in these dark times.
This is the 4th BTS movie, and the first one i have seen. I saw it in a huge cinema in london on a superscreen. Prior to the film the 'Dynamite' music video was shown - that in of itself is worth the price of admission alone! The song is a huge cultural moment and to see it on such a big screen was like being injected with happiness - under my compulsory face mask, I was smiling from ear to ear.
Unfortunately due to this darn pandemic, cinemas are still extremely quiet. So in a screening room with a capacity of about 400+ people, there was just me, a 34 year old man, and two teenage girls. The girls were having a whale of a time, they were bopping about and cheering, it was wonderful to see. But at the same time, it was kinda sad that the coronavirus means I couldn't experience that sense of enthusiasm with a bigger audience.
And this is the crux of this review, the word enthusiasm. Because if you are a BTS fan, that's what they make you feel - just being in their presence makes you feel good inside, makes you feel hopeful, inspires you. I'm a huge movie fan, but alas it's almost impossible to look at a film like this critically. I mean, it's BTS... the film could be 4 hours of them just sitting in a room chatting and i'd feel like it was the best night of my life.
As a documentary? If I was to step back from my personal love of BTS, I guess I would say that as a film it's very unsurprising. And I get why that is. BTS is a massive machine, and part of that machine is the movies about them - the films are made by the people who manage them and so we will never truly get a deeper insight into the members as individuals - we will always see them through the filter their management/record label impose. I got the impression the film was trying to coax out a deeper look at the whole phenomenon which at times didn't really feel organic...
One day, maybe in 15/20 years time, someone will make an epic documentary about the whole BTS experience that will really get under the finger nails of what it must have felt like for these young guys to become the biggest thing on the planet. But that can only come with reflection, when time has passed, when it is all finally over... but that's not today, and that's not what this film can offer. What it can do is give just a little glimpse into the roller coaster that this band is still riding. It'll make you shine, it'll make you dream, it'll make you smile, but more importantly it'll make you feel connected and in this locked down world of 2020, that's all we can hope for.
Tenet (2020)
Feeling, NOTHING.
Exists in that middle ground between good and bad, that place where you feel... Nothing. Having not been to the the cinema in 6 months, feeling nothing for 2 and a half hours is an antic-climactic state of being. It's one of those films where you need to watch an 'explanation' video of it on youtube afterwards, except... well, you just don't care.
Spree (2020)
I'd FOLLOW Kurt any day!
Joe Keery is great in this. Perfect casting. It may seem simple but what he pulls off here is really impressive and takes genuine talent - he doesn't let up once making his Kurt both believable and a joy to watch. I had tons of fun watching this, Hell of a ride!
Color Out of Space (2019)
Annoying.
When you do "weird" you have to start from a place that ISN'T weird, using constrast to sell the weirdness. This starts with the weirdness levels at 11 and just continues to rise. When it's ALL weird, when there's zero grounding, then NONE of it is weird and therefore nothing is interesting. Ultimately i found this an annoying experience and couldn't wait for it to be over.
Benjamin (2018)
I've been a big fan of Simon Amstells for a long, but if this drivel is the best he's got, i hope he sticks to stand up and leaves movies alone
I'm sat here trying to think of anything i liked about this movie. I guess the cat was cute? Cliched on so many levels and littered with unlikable hipster knobs. One or two belly laughs, and one or two really uncomfortable moments. The whole thing is laced with self-obsessed millennial misery. You wouldn't want to spend any time with any of these people. It wants to be tender and deep, but it's just empty cliche after cliche scored with a grating soft melancholic piano. If you want to see a movie about someone struggling to be open to love, watch 'Gods Own Country'. I've been a big fan of Simon Amstells for a long, but if this drivel is the best he's got, i hope he sticks to stand up and leaves movies alone.