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Movie notes: anti-recs
Mar. 12th, 2018 11:53 amAgora
I noped out of this one about half way through because it was dreary. Rachel Weisz as Hypatia was great, but she was apparently the only woman in all of Alexandria, if this film is to be believed. It bothered me that even her slave, who attended to her in the bath, was male. There was something very sad, almost joyless, about this film, so I turned it off and read the Wikipedia summary instead.
Mute - netflix
Not awful, but certainly not good. A disappointing showing from Duncan Jones, who previously directed Moon and Source Code. In a near-future Berlin, a mute bartender searches for his missing girlfriend. The circle these two moved in is full of seedy members of organized crime, including black-market surgeons who torture people. We eventually find out that the protagonist's girlfriend has been murdered. Oh, and she was the only woman in the film, except for some small roles for sex workers (Florence Kasumba! what are you doing in this movie?). And there is a totally unnecessary and strange sub-plot around pedophilia. A very WTF movie.
I noped out of this one about half way through because it was dreary. Rachel Weisz as Hypatia was great, but she was apparently the only woman in all of Alexandria, if this film is to be believed. It bothered me that even her slave, who attended to her in the bath, was male. There was something very sad, almost joyless, about this film, so I turned it off and read the Wikipedia summary instead.
Mute - netflix
Not awful, but certainly not good. A disappointing showing from Duncan Jones, who previously directed Moon and Source Code. In a near-future Berlin, a mute bartender searches for his missing girlfriend. The circle these two moved in is full of seedy members of organized crime, including black-market surgeons who torture people. We eventually find out that the protagonist's girlfriend has been murdered. Oh, and she was the only woman in the film, except for some small roles for sex workers (Florence Kasumba! what are you doing in this movie?). And there is a totally unnecessary and strange sub-plot around pedophilia. A very WTF movie.
