ROSSZ VERSEK (BAD POEMS)
Watchable. Not bad. The few actual verses recited in the movie aren't inspiring. But the film's truly poetic because of its lyrics and rhythm and that's what constitutes poetry. Fascinating camerawork, zany set piecies, e.g. a chamber orchestra with passengers turning out to be musicians one by one is a delight. The lead actor tripled as additionally the scriptwriter and also the director which explains the personal feel permeating the movie. The subject of lost love is nothing new but his search for it, in younger years mistaken for sex, is compelling.
JUST MERCY
Recommended. Harrowing and shattering. I needed several hours to pull myself together after the screening. When Johnny D fells a tree in the opening scene he doesn't know yet next it will be him going to be felled. The movie's released hard on the heels of African Americans' riots which spread across the US like wildfire. It may seem swift marketing but the importance of such a project made while so many white people don't get how inherently racist they are cannot be underestimated. What real life hasn't changed, such blockbusters can. Especially the US deep-fried South gets to see itself in a black mirror. The movie's set in Alabama, "the home of "To Kill a Mockingbird"" as the welcome road sign boasts and which is sarcastically used in the picture. But it's only the more chilling since the portrayed white locals find pride in a work of fiction blind to the horrors of reality. Plot-wise, it's a character-driven story from the director of Christian movie "Shack". No wonder the title carries religious connotations. But the topic's versatile and a church is only mentioned a couple of times as a social activity of the part of population which is offered help only in their final hours on the death row. Unlike "Shack", "Just Mercy" is heavy and loaded. "The opposite of poverty is justice."
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