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  Dual 2022

  ★ Watched by Thorkell August Ottarsson 21 May 2022

  The acting is wooden, the script is both badly written (everything is spelled out) and very silly. Even the whole concept makes no sense at all.

  SPOILERS. Why can't a copy live? Twins do. Why would anyone make a copy knowing that this might happen? How do they make a clone in one hour that can speak English? Just from a spit? Is the language knowledge in the spit? If yes, why no other personal knowledge? I could go on…

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  Ted K 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Thorkell August Ottarsson 20 May 2022

  Beautiful character study.

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  A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Thorkell August Ottarsson 19 May 2013 6

  I had forgotten how complex this film was. I saw it some 30 years ago and did not remember much from it. When watching it now I felt like I was left with more questions than answers.

  What I did get from the film is that it is about (among many things) the crashes of desires. Stella wants to please her husband and sister. Stanley wants to have respect and enjoy his life with his wife. Blanche wants to live…

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  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Thorkell August Ottarsson 08 Oct 2013 24

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I just saw The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover again or as I would call it, The Church, The Devil, Mankind and Jesus Christ.

  There are probably many ways to look at and read The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover but one of the most obvious one has to be a religious interpretation.

  Through out the film a young boy with blond hair, who looks like a Cherub, sings verses from Psalm 51, where sins are…