I went for the laughs and left the movie theater with an existential crisis. I loved it <3
How they got away with that final line, I don't know.
[PS. If you think this preached 'matriarchy', then you clearly didn't understand it.]
wtf did i just watch... 9/10
[IFFR'22] An Afro-futuristic musical with an anti-capitalist concept that adopts the unstructured form of slam to build a story about the exploitation of Africa, gender identity or technological threats. Overly ambitious in its many ideas, too many to be easily absorbed,, it is visually stunning and imaginative, and musically connects with Saul Williams' "MartyrLoserKing" (2016) album.
Honestly, it was very hard to watch this story, I can't even begin to imagine how hard it must've been to tell it.
Seeking a “friend” to cook with now after this, it’s urgent
This felt like an ode to millennials. I thought it was really sweet and hopeful overall.
This movie was better than I was expecting, a nice simple story about two people's friendship and in the process watching them learn about growing up, who they are, and dealing with being on the verge of turning 30.
Maybe they just do things differently in Romania. For a modern American audience, this weirdly terrible film - cleverly staged, smartly shot, put together with care and skill, and drowning in despicable clichés and wretched loathing - seems like a terrible miscalculation. The cast is worthy of a better project, many of the visuals are wonderful, and yet it's a cruel, dishonest, fat-shaming, gay-shaming, difference-hating, trampling mess of "No ha ha it's just a joke we don't mean it" moments that do not persuade. Are we meant to understand that we all live in the gutter, so this talk of stars is just delusion? Honestly, I don't care. I'm willing to believe that this makes a lot more sense in a different culture, but while it wanders through mine - Netflix releases it in English only - it fails hard. It's a sex comedy with no sex and a love story without sympathy, empathy, or honesty. In an early scene an earnestly-romantic kid has his love fantasy derailed by a giant turd in a public toilet. That's the whole experience of this movie, in a ... well, in a nutshell, if you know what I mean.
