Tirador (Slingshot)
Sukiyaki Western Django
Postcards from Leningrad
Donkey Punch
Caregiver
The Hulk
Paris Je t’aime
No End in Sight
I found this drafted entry of movies I was going to review earlier this year on June 24th. As best I can recall, I’ll still interview them in one sentence as best as I can. And I might unintentionally make them spoilers so I’m placing them after a jump.
Tirador (Slingshot): In the slums of Quiapo, multiple stories intertwine about the harsh reality of poverty and corruption in the Philippines beautifully shot but with less dialogue than I would have liked which suppresses the overall unifying factor this film could have projected. But I guess the concept (read: real life problems) was something too big to cover in such a general way, right?
Sukiyaki Western Django: Asian stereotypes, action and culture all balled up and fused with old Western films and supposed to be laughed at – but I just cringed instead because people were laughing at old Western lines in a Japanese accent. It’s funny ’cause it’s racist.
Postcards from Leningrad: Beautifully displayed like an animated collage of a young girl who shares her story about her childhood without romanticizing the idea of resistance.
Donkey Punch: Brutally hilarious (pun intended) but I still don’t understand why films never caption white (i.e. british, irish, australian) accents when they are barely understandable but will caption the shit out of people of color (i.e. kenyan, chinese, hispanic) accents when they are speaking perfectly comprehensible English.
Caregiver: “I care you about my job. I care. About you!” Classic kakaase film about an OFW who OAs a little but I wish the concept went deeper into OFWs and not just a dedicated, obedient Filipina.
The Hulk: Turned into a love story and I hate when movies do that. Is there a parallel in this and domestic violence?
Paris Je t’aime: I love Paris Je t’aime. A bunch of short films in about Paris something about being shot the quickness for a film festival – and it came out whimsical, funny, sad and awesome.
No End in Sight: Kind of hazy when I watched this – but really fuckin good. Basically everything that Bush’s admin could have done wrong with the “War against Terrorism” did wrong.
So, there you have it. My embarrassing, old, horribly thought-out and written movie reviews from June. Now with that over with, you can learn to appreciate www.prometheusbrown.com for his well-written and critical analyses and reviews on films. Good day!
More posts to come via the waiting room (aka all of our unposted drafts waiting to be published) soon!
