Harvey Weinstein's Oscar Bait movie of the year is a good-feel movie about a young dark skinned Indian boy who gets separated from his family and ends up living on the streets of Calcutta for many years, is adopted by an Australian family but after 20 years becomes obsessed with trying to find his family. The first part of the movie, about the dark skinned boy Saroo getting lost and walking around aimlessly through Calcutta is very powerful, and the early parts of him adjusting to adopted life in another country is good, but then the movie goes "20 years later" and five shades lighter so Hollywood's go-to Indian Dev Patel can play him, but once he becomes obsessed with the family he "left behind", the movie becomes a slow-paced bore, featuring a good fifteen minutes of scenes of the guy walking aimlessly through the streets with flashbacks to his youth, and nearly endless scenes of him waking up in the afternoon after falling asleep on his couch in front of Google Maps. The end again, sorta brings the movie to the solid level the movie was on, but it needed a good 10 to 15 minutes of him being all depressed to be cut and thrown out. And I mentioned it in the Roads to the Oscars thread but Nicole Kidman delivers one helluva perfomance, all the botox in the world can't hold that woman back from harnessing some of the greatest acting talent ever.
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If ya'll ain't seen this yet, go see it ASAP. I almost wanted to make a separate thread for this movie, it's just so awesome. It's from Taika Waititi (What We Do In The Shadows) and is just a wildly entertaining movie about a "troublemaker" fat kid being adopted by a nice farmer lady and her bitter old husband (Sam Neill). She dies soon after and child protection wants to take him away again, so he runs off, the old man goes after him and they end up stuck in the woods, but local authorities are convinced that he has kidnapped the boy, so now they both go on the run and have a big bonding experience as they ensue on hijinks in the New Zealand outland. Or as they say in the movie, it's the Skux Life!
A very poetic war movie in the most literal sense. It tells the story of a doctor serving in the Portugese army during the Angolan war through real life letters written between him and his wife, which are narrated by the person the letter is sent to. Since most letters are written to the wife, she narrates almost the entire movie with passion, detailing the doctor's love for her but also the pointlessness of the desolate war. With only sporadic scenes of actual dialogue in the movie and the entire movie being in stark black & white, it's far from a typical movie and not easy to sit through, but also manages to be very engrossing.