Essential Coli-members what's the last thing you watched?
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TheGodling
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Although you should rewatch, there's no definite answer to find, breh. The entire point is you interpret all the events and characters in your own way.
Cartier Murphy
Apathy’s a Tragedy & Boredom is a Crime
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Kenyan movie about a tomboy girl who falls in love with another girl from her town, but their love becomes a problem not only because their fathers are opposing politicians, but because the lives of homosexuals and lesbians are not safe. The film is a bit basic and amateurish, but it does shine a light on how much of a thing homophobia still is in Africa, further evidenced by the fact the Kenyan government originally banned the movie for promoting homosexuality which is against the law.
If there's one film this IFFR that I absolutely believe the entire Coli should see, it's this one right here.
Because what used to be the biggest surprise at IFFR for me every year is really no longer a surprise, and that's the representation of glorious Philipinne cinema. And Dog Days may very well be the Philippine version of Killa Season, the ultimate pan-Asian hood movie. The plot? To prevent her new-born son, the half-black and aptly named Michael Jordan Ulili, from growing up poor, a mother sacrifices herself in a blood ritual to give him unparraleled basketball skills so he can become a professional basketball player in America. But MJ Ulili suffers from a bad knee and is held back by his coach because the coach's son is the desired star of the team. The coach and son are also entitled racists and the situation escalates in a one-on-one basketball match (not even 30 minutes in the movie), witnessed by an American NBA scouting coach (or the only old white man they could put in a suit considering the prison tattoos on his knuckles).
The one-on-one match is full of the most insane shyt-talking you'll ever see and at some point while the coach is telling his son to target MJ's bad leg, MJ throws the ball and it bounces of the son's face into the coach's face. I have no idea how they shot that but it's fukking hilarious, especially because the supposed NBA scout is deeply impressed by this highly unprofessional game of basketball! It's just fukking incredible how little fukks the movie gives, and again, that's one quarter into the movie. It should also be noted that the guy playing MJ Ulili in no way looks in shape enough to last even five minutes in an intense basketball game, but it might be intentional because he's supposed to be supernaturally good. Either way it's impossible to describe seeing him shyt on everyone with B-cup titties while they throw racist slurs at him because they can't handle his greatness.
After winning the match his knee injury gets worse and his girl gets pregnant, and to pay for the surgery and them living together before he can go to the US, he starts dealing meth. And of course, starts using it too, causing a downwards spiral where one is left to wonder if (super)natural talent can be enough to overcome the adversities of life. Along the way tons of fukkery and absurdist shyt happen (I didn't even mention the crazy-ass aunt who is absolutely fukking hilarious) and you're left wondering what the fukk you just watched, but one thing is for certain, it is fukking entertainment and below trailer should say it all.
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South Korean spy thriller loosely based on a real spy who infiltrated North Korea in the 90s to find out how advanced NK's nuclear program was. It's a bit on the long side, especially with how deep they go into explaining every bit of the infiltration plan, but it has some good suspense and some very nice character moments as he becomes caught up in the political games between SK and NK's leading parties who both use the "cold war" between both Korea's to manipulate each other.
dvdjamm
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5 episodes to go...I'll finish by the Super Bowl
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Rosamund Pike was really good in this, and I thought the movie did an excellent job about capturing stuff like PTSD and the need to report on war atrocities, but some narrative decisions were very "iffy". About halfway into the movie they cover the Iraq war and Colvin has an argument about not getting involved in the politics and just focusing on the people. Which I understand from a journalistic decision, but the further the movie progresses, the more you realize (and I don't know if this was the case with Colvin herself or this is the filmmakers) that they do constant bring up the war crimes and atrocities committed by the local groups while ignoring the role of foreign intervention. In the start of the movie it's the Tamil Tigers who Colvin accuses of blocking and stealing from aid transports, in Iraq we get Saddam's mass graves, in Libya we get the story of Gaddafi ordering thousands of women to be raped and in Syria the constant bombardments of cities. All of which I'm sure are true facts about the crimes of the leaderships in place, but one is left to wonder about the role of the US and allies in almost all of these conflicts. Mysteriously, they are never mentioned or seen outside of being faceless bodyguards in a few scenes, the hundreds upon thousands of citizens wounded and killed as collateral damage of military strikes and drone attacks ignored. Colvin and her righteous band of journalists seemingly only exist to expose how horrid these dreadful regimes are to western citizens so we can stand firmly behind our governments blowing these countries to hell in effort to take these wicked, wicked men down. And that right there, is some utter warhawk bullshyt.
Rosamund Pike was really good in this, and I thought the movie did an excellent job about capturing stuff like PTSD and the need to report on war atrocities, but some narrative decisions were very "iffy". About halfway into the movie they cover the Iraq war and Colvin has an argument about not getting involved in the politics and just focusing on the people. Which I understand from a journalistic decision, but the further the movie progresses, the more you realize (and I don't know if this was the case with Colvin herself or this is the filmmakers) that they do constant bring up the war crimes and atrocities committed by the local groups while ignoring the role of foreign intervention. In the start of the movie it's the Tamil Tigers who Colvin accuses of blocking and stealing from aid transports, in Iraq we get Saddam's mass graves, in Libya we get the story of Gaddafi ordering thousands of women to be raped and in Syria the constant bombardments of cities. All of which I'm sure are true facts about the crimes of the leaderships in place, but one is left to wonder about the role of the US and allies in almost all of these conflicts. Mysteriously, they are never mentioned or seen outside of being faceless bodyguards in a few scenes, the hundreds upon thousands of citizens wounded and killed as collateral damage of military strikes and drone attacks ignored. Colvin and her righteous band of journalists seemingly only exist to expose how horrid these dreadful regimes are to western citizens so we can stand firmly behind our governments blowing these countries to hell in effort to take these wicked, wicked men down. And that right there, is some utter warhawk bullshyt.
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Rosamund Pike was really good in this, and I thought the movie did an excellent job about capturing stuff like PTSD and the need to report on war atrocities, but some narrative decisions were very "iffy". About halfway into the movie they cover the Iraq war and Colvin has an argument about not getting involved in the politics and just focusing on the people. Which I understand from a journalistic decision, but the further the movie progresses, the more you realize (and I don't know if this was the case with Colvin herself or this is the filmmakers) that they do constant bring up the war crimes and atrocities committed by the local groups while ignoring the role of foreign intervention. In the start of the movie it's the Tamil Tigers who Colvin accuses of blocking and stealing from aid transports, in Iraq we get Saddam's mass graves, in Libya we get the story of Gaddafi ordering thousands of women to be raped and in Syria the constant bombardments of cities. All of which I'm sure are true facts about the crimes of the leaderships in place, but one is left to wonder about the role of the US and allies in almost all of these conflicts. Mysteriously, they are never mentioned or seen outside of being faceless bodyguards in a few scenes, the hundreds upon thousands of citizens wounded and killed as collateral damage of military strikes and drone attacks ignored. Colvin and her righteous band of journalists seemingly only exist to expose how horrid these dreadful regimes are to western citizens so we can stand firmly behind our governments blowing these countries to hell in effort to take these wicked, wicked men down. And that right there, is some utter warhawk bullshyt.
I see that, and that would've been an interesting movie...but that's not what Colvin herself covered. And I think there film made it clear she was going where her military attache didn't want her to. That was enough for me so as not to totally absolve the US of it's role.
I didn't get the feeling of the film being pro-intervention at all. I don't think it took a stance either way. It's more about the value of journalists in exposing the truth than anything to do with the military directly. And I'm a sucker for films about journalism... So I loved the shyt out of this.
Rosario
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