A desolação das habitações decadentes, das estradas poeirentas e dos povoados quase desertos da Austrália deve ter sido pensada como externalização do estado emocional dos sobreviventes do Colapso - evento catastrófico inexplicado, provavelmente de natureza ambiental ou financeira. A jornada automobilística da dupla Guy Pearce e Robert Pattinson é marcada por crueldade, indiferença, desconfiança. Vislumbres de humanidade são uma raridade nesse mundo cão onde tentam não morrer à míngua, sem dinheiro nem paz de espírito. Distanciado, árido, de passada lenta, o filme mantém o interesse mais pela atmosfera fatalista do que pelo fiapo de trama.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Part One was a jaw-dropping visual spectacle. It also consisted entirely of build-up without dramatic payoff, marred by pacing too languid for its own good, the putative human drama dwarfed by the sheer scale in which it was told. Part Two retains the erratic pacing, despite an uptick in showstopping setpieces; struggles with emotional resonance persist, if attenuated. When there is action, it is the best Villeneuve has ever directed. What makes it markedly superior overall is that a thematic…
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Black Orpheus 1959
As a Brazilian, I must say it took me quite a while to recognize my own country and people under Camus' foreign, exoticized gaze. This mythical romance is best viewed as a musical of sorts, unless one's unwilling to suspend disbelief, actually believing poor Brazilians dance all the time, Carnival time or not. Among the grievances, the numerous samba sequences that are absurdly long, the soundtrack which often veers into the realm of cacophony, and the acting, which is mostly…
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The Cabin in the Woods 2011
Tongue-in-cheek, it disembowels the conventions of the Evil Dead-type of horror stories and, surprisingly, makes for a frightening self-reflexive indictment of the audiences' thirst for human blood onscreen - all the while selling itself as silly entertainment.