Sunday 10 December 2017

THE SHAPE OF WATER

Recommended. Soooo stylish. A modern SF story set in or after 1949, judging by Marilyn Monroe's song "How Wrong Can I Be" on a black and white telly in the movie recreating all details of the time meticulously, with all the Cold War classics and with overt sex and race discrimination treated naturally. With a subtext of the US destroying the environment overseas and disdaining what's sacred for other nations. Masterfully acted, including my favourite Octavia Spencer. Due to the plot you may develop a taste for eggs. I felt like having one immediately afterwards.


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SYRIA'S DISAPPEARED: THE CASE AGAINST ASSAD

Recommended. Absolutely harrowing. ISIS crimes fade in comparison. Pictures like from concentration camps and torture descriptions like from Guantanamo.

Sadly Polish TV stations prey on internal political animosities in result of which I only heard about the current Syrian peace talks in Geneva from the British film director.

PLAYING GOD

Recommended. About probably the world's most powerful lawyer. Earning 500$ an hour and settling mass scale compensation cases. The film was more engaging than I expected. The portrayed man is incredible. Brings back faith in justice and lawyers' integrity.

EL PACTO DE ADRANA (ADRIANA'S PACT)

Watchable. Quite long, with some irrelevant scenes but shows how psychological repression works and how manipulative the torturer was. Should be more scientific in my opinion. For a long time I thought the truth would never transpire in the film.

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