i watched two films last night and loved one while hating the other
Loved...
The Lobster
written and directed by the amazing Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth)...
this follows a man named David who leaves The City and goes to The Hotel where he has 40 days to find a mate and fall in love with her or he will be turned into a lobster and released into the woods. This is the first 10 minutes and what unravels throughout the film is amazingly witty.....
this film works on so many levels....it's an amazing laugh out loud dark comedy....it's a surrealistic view into society and it's "rules" of what love is.....it's a dark and despondent drama....it's a social commentary on the concept of relationships as well as being alone
above all it's a fun little weird film that is ion no way pretentious....just strange.
you all should see this....it would bring up some great conversation.....Exo, WWWP, Roxy i'm looking right at you.
HATE!
Martyrs (2015)
the original French Martyrs is in my opinion the greatest horror film of the new century...i know that's saying a lot for a film that does not exactly warrant viewers to jump up and re-watch it
simply put...
it is an amazing story with several genre twists, the violence is shocking, there is gore but not just for gores sake, it is well shot and the main players are wonderful in it (specifically the young woman who plays Lucie), and it ends on a bleak note with a very ambiguous ending
in my opinion this horror film in a nutshell outlines perfectly the rudimentary concepts of existential nihilism and should be seen by everyone at least once
so obviously i had to watch the watered down american remake....just because i need more things in my life to hate
they stick to the basic premise but everything that i loved about the original is gone....i kept asking myself if i would actually like this had i not seen the original....and in all honesty the answer is no
the acting is sub par, the entire film feels rushed in every way, everything i described about the underlying subtext of the original is simply thrown out, the entire film feels low budget in a bad way and the plot changes from the original are as unnecessary as they are simply stupid
avoid this and re-watch the original