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Murder on the Cape (2017)
Please make it stop
Like a cross between a z grade soap opera (complete with elevator muzac forced over every 'scene' and ridiculous close ups) and a community TV production where nobody has any professional training...
Seriously, this must have been a project for the socially awkward and possibly the mentally challenged.
Nobody knows what they are doing.
The acting is embarrassing. I have literally never felt embarrassed for an actor while watching a movie before. This must be some sort of joke? Like a bet - who can make the worst movie ever?
The hyperthermia scene... WTF?
Happily digging for clams on a mild afternoon, upon on being spotted by the new sheriff (recently anointed by way of being handed a jacket with SHERIFF printed on it),
"where's your licence?"
"My hands are frozen, you'll have to take my wallet out." the beret clad nutjob whines.
'Sheriff' then reaches into nutjob's back pocket while music swells ominously and pointlessly.
And who knew hypothermia could be cured by the pretty girl saying "no no, you'll be fine"
Then-
"Let me walk you to the door" to the sheriff.
"Excuse me" to the rapidly recovered nutjob who is now fawning over her and singing inanely.
The 'door' is literally 2 steps away.
I had to stop.
Okja (2017)
A brave and beautiful delight.
Breathtakingly original. THIS is what I want in a movie. Takes you by the scruff of the neck and drags you non-stop, from lush Korean forests to dark and grimy torture chambers.
It snuck up on me. Lulled me into an understated, Disneyfied stupor. But there is so much more to this move. (I may even renew my Netflix subscription based on it).
I see many complaining about the ham acting of Tida and Jake... but their caricatures serve to emphasize the understated Mija. It is a cultural contrast as well as a social commentary on the all American way of greed is good and the truth is whatever the men with the deepest pockets say it is. Maybe these lampoons ARE how quieter cultures see Americans?
And there are no pretty platitudes to tie it up. We are left feeling helpless, hopeless and not at all happily ever after. Can we in good conscience, rejoice in the freedom of one giant pig (and piglet), while the rest are tragically left behind to be slaughtered?
Opens up many more questions than it answers. A conversation starter. A meat-lovers emetic. A brave and beautiful delight.