gmezzanatto
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As I see it, the messages of Coralie Fargeat are quite simple: 1) Women are valued just for their bodies 2) it is difficult and frustrating for women to live up with ageing 3) the show business isw dominated by disgusting men. How to do it ? Shocking spectators with an horror movie with disgusting and sometimes breathtaking scenes. This ends up with an ending uselessly bloody and violent where everything gets messed up.
There are also useless and pretentious references to Psycho's Hitchcock, Cronemberg, Kubrick but also a lot of plot holes. To give some examples, the most fantastic drug of the world is sent apparently for free, Sue can build up by herself a secret doorway in her bathroom, the termination of Sue ends up with the two women suddenly able to fight, and many others. A good movie cannot be so full of holes and inconsistencies, even though it doesn't want to be realistic.
What is more disappointing is that a very promising subject with an awesome cast is ruined by the only objective to use horror to shock the audience.
Very surprised about the reaction of critics: Sights and Sounds even rank it as the 7th greatest movie of 2024. Incredible!
There are also useless and pretentious references to Psycho's Hitchcock, Cronemberg, Kubrick but also a lot of plot holes. To give some examples, the most fantastic drug of the world is sent apparently for free, Sue can build up by herself a secret doorway in her bathroom, the termination of Sue ends up with the two women suddenly able to fight, and many others. A good movie cannot be so full of holes and inconsistencies, even though it doesn't want to be realistic.
What is more disappointing is that a very promising subject with an awesome cast is ruined by the only objective to use horror to shock the audience.
Very surprised about the reaction of critics: Sights and Sounds even rank it as the 7th greatest movie of 2024. Incredible!
In 1901, Segundo, a Chilean mestizo; MacLennan, an English army captain; and Bill, an American mercenary; embark on an expedition on horseback to delimit and reclaim the lands that the State has granted to José Menéndez.
There are 4 things worth to highlight in this movie
1. This is a violent and brutal movie on colonisation of the Terra del Fuego where the tone is clear from the first take, where an old man is shot dead after a work accident because he lost his arm: a man without an arm is one man less, says MacLennan before shooting him.
2. The role of Segundo, who is a mestizo, not daring to rebel to the violence of the settlers, becoming complicit of their violence. His eyes express his internal struggle, but this is not preventing him to join the most horrible slaughters, the last one told to the government representative come to promote a reconciliation with Indios.
3. The Patagonia landscape, which is beautiful, but deprived of any hint of prettiness by the camera of Simone D'arcangelo, as if even the landscape were defaced by the human violence.
4. The last part of the movie, after 7 years, is showing the will of the government to reconcile with Indios by hiding the violence of the past and perpetuating the colonisation of the land at the "end of the world". And of course this didn't happen only in Chile.
There are 4 things worth to highlight in this movie
1. This is a violent and brutal movie on colonisation of the Terra del Fuego where the tone is clear from the first take, where an old man is shot dead after a work accident because he lost his arm: a man without an arm is one man less, says MacLennan before shooting him.
2. The role of Segundo, who is a mestizo, not daring to rebel to the violence of the settlers, becoming complicit of their violence. His eyes express his internal struggle, but this is not preventing him to join the most horrible slaughters, the last one told to the government representative come to promote a reconciliation with Indios.
3. The Patagonia landscape, which is beautiful, but deprived of any hint of prettiness by the camera of Simone D'arcangelo, as if even the landscape were defaced by the human violence.
4. The last part of the movie, after 7 years, is showing the will of the government to reconcile with Indios by hiding the violence of the past and perpetuating the colonisation of the land at the "end of the world". And of course this didn't happen only in Chile.