Bands44
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Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes is a bit of a weird one, it does require some thinking to fully understand what is going on because the characters themselves are confused about what is going on. However, when everyone has explained it and you understand it yourself you can fully enjoy it.
The first thing I came to love about the movie was the basicness of everything stemming from the fact it was a low budget movie. The entirety of the movie is set in a medium sized café, a set of stairs and 2 small rooms and one (two) prop which is the desktop other than that the movie just relies on its dialogue and actors to convey the story.
A café owner discovers that his tv shows "videos" from the future but only 2 minutes. He is further is joined by others and they play with this magic tv whilst of course everyone being confused what is going on. But then of course, 2 minutes is a short time how useful is that, so they divulged a plan to see further into the future. But again of course, messing with the future is never good so we watch as they get in trouble.
The movie has a simple yet confusing plotline but as mentioned earlier when you understand it is quite enjoyable and comedic at times. It was able to put things you might have wondered about time travel into film.
Gave it an extra star because it gave the me the word for Droste effect which for years I have passingly thought about but never bothered to do actual research.
Overall, it is a great fun concept.
The first thing I came to love about the movie was the basicness of everything stemming from the fact it was a low budget movie. The entirety of the movie is set in a medium sized café, a set of stairs and 2 small rooms and one (two) prop which is the desktop other than that the movie just relies on its dialogue and actors to convey the story.
A café owner discovers that his tv shows "videos" from the future but only 2 minutes. He is further is joined by others and they play with this magic tv whilst of course everyone being confused what is going on. But then of course, 2 minutes is a short time how useful is that, so they divulged a plan to see further into the future. But again of course, messing with the future is never good so we watch as they get in trouble.
The movie has a simple yet confusing plotline but as mentioned earlier when you understand it is quite enjoyable and comedic at times. It was able to put things you might have wondered about time travel into film.
Gave it an extra star because it gave the me the word for Droste effect which for years I have passingly thought about but never bothered to do actual research.
Overall, it is a great fun concept.
This is one of those movies you find by mistake and just watch it because a movie is movie but compared to other movies in this category it actually sticks with you because it was quite enjoyable.
Tampompo mainly follows two truckers who help a widow save her ramen business. The ramen not being the best, needs to be changed. They recruit the help of an older man and a taxi driver who all help in the endeavor of helping the business by spying on other ramen businesses for recipes and training our businesswoman to cook faster however still making tasty ramen.
Tampompo also has smaller plots showing people's relationship with food from the couple who seem like they are in an erotic relationship with food to the old man who eats ramen with sides that are not good for his heart.
These two plotlines were a bit annoying and confusing at first due to the fact I did think it was going to be something like Pulp Fiction where every character ends up at the same place at the end but that does not happen because all the plots should be treated as different storylines that are small windows into different people and food.
The movie is more of a feel-good story; it is simple yet not boring. It ties up all stories in a neat bow whilst not falling into any cliches.
Tampompo mainly follows two truckers who help a widow save her ramen business. The ramen not being the best, needs to be changed. They recruit the help of an older man and a taxi driver who all help in the endeavor of helping the business by spying on other ramen businesses for recipes and training our businesswoman to cook faster however still making tasty ramen.
Tampompo also has smaller plots showing people's relationship with food from the couple who seem like they are in an erotic relationship with food to the old man who eats ramen with sides that are not good for his heart.
These two plotlines were a bit annoying and confusing at first due to the fact I did think it was going to be something like Pulp Fiction where every character ends up at the same place at the end but that does not happen because all the plots should be treated as different storylines that are small windows into different people and food.
The movie is more of a feel-good story; it is simple yet not boring. It ties up all stories in a neat bow whilst not falling into any cliches.
Midsommar is a movie that does not have a feel-good moment, it starts off with a tragedy and ends with tragedies however it manages to do this without dumping all the events at once to the audience making it an easy watch yet horrifying when you are about it too long. It like the audience is supposed to be "indoctrinated" along with Dani so that to not question their culture. It further is set up during the day, making it seem there is nothing to hide here because majority of horror movies happen at night to hide the horrific events. The light that comes with new and brighter beginnings in the morning does not occur because the whole day and night is bright so when will the evil prosper except during the day and night.
Dani is faced with her family parish in a single event. Christian, her boyfriend has been planning to break up with her for a while but now really cannot because her family has died. Furthermore, Christian and his friends (Josh, Mark and Pele) had decided they were going to Pele's hometown in Sweden for a part of summer but Christian "has" to bring Dani with because again how are you supposed to break up with someone right after they family died. We then follow them as they partake in substances in the hometown, take apart in the weird activities which of course start to get weirder until we are made to watch a ritual that involves the voluntarily death of members. This is when it became obvious - that this place is a cult.
What makes Midsommar a great watch is that all events are believable. Christian wanting to break up with Dani because her family has a lot of issues is very believable. Dani's family dying because of a mental illness related reason, also very believable - which then causes for them not to break up and Christian having to be tolerable until she has mourned. Furthermore, a whole group of young people end up in Sweden for innocent reasons and trying to enjoy and respect a culture until one by one they are killed off and the most isolated person being the one kept alive and thus forever trapping them in the cult. Yah, makes sense.
The characters overall were good. The storytelling of the movie is what makes all the main characters -excluding all the cult members - 3-Dimensional making them easier to understand where all coming from.
Dani is a deeply traumatised character; the only reason she is doing this trip is because her family died. If they did not parish then Christian would have broken up with her thus not coming to the trip. However, since that did not occur, we follow her as she is essentially stuck in a month-long trip to Sweden with a group of people who do not like her but must tolerate due to her circumstances. This drives her to find community with the cult until she is trapped.
Christian, throughout the movie is portrayed as a bad boyfriend but in my opinion, I am not sure what was he supposed to do. Could he have been kinder, yes, however there is not manual in breaking up with someone right after such a tragedy. He was forced to soldier on, all whilst being trapped in a crazy cult, that spoke in a different language and who would go on and violate him.
Josh, Mark, Simon and Connie cool guys. Felt like they were the most realistic in how most people would have reacted in being around those people after a while.
Pele, the real villain in this whole movie. Left the commune to find new recruits just to have them killed. Dani was just a bonus recruiter for him.
Dani is faced with her family parish in a single event. Christian, her boyfriend has been planning to break up with her for a while but now really cannot because her family has died. Furthermore, Christian and his friends (Josh, Mark and Pele) had decided they were going to Pele's hometown in Sweden for a part of summer but Christian "has" to bring Dani with because again how are you supposed to break up with someone right after they family died. We then follow them as they partake in substances in the hometown, take apart in the weird activities which of course start to get weirder until we are made to watch a ritual that involves the voluntarily death of members. This is when it became obvious - that this place is a cult.
What makes Midsommar a great watch is that all events are believable. Christian wanting to break up with Dani because her family has a lot of issues is very believable. Dani's family dying because of a mental illness related reason, also very believable - which then causes for them not to break up and Christian having to be tolerable until she has mourned. Furthermore, a whole group of young people end up in Sweden for innocent reasons and trying to enjoy and respect a culture until one by one they are killed off and the most isolated person being the one kept alive and thus forever trapping them in the cult. Yah, makes sense.
The characters overall were good. The storytelling of the movie is what makes all the main characters -excluding all the cult members - 3-Dimensional making them easier to understand where all coming from.
Dani is a deeply traumatised character; the only reason she is doing this trip is because her family died. If they did not parish then Christian would have broken up with her thus not coming to the trip. However, since that did not occur, we follow her as she is essentially stuck in a month-long trip to Sweden with a group of people who do not like her but must tolerate due to her circumstances. This drives her to find community with the cult until she is trapped.
Christian, throughout the movie is portrayed as a bad boyfriend but in my opinion, I am not sure what was he supposed to do. Could he have been kinder, yes, however there is not manual in breaking up with someone right after such a tragedy. He was forced to soldier on, all whilst being trapped in a crazy cult, that spoke in a different language and who would go on and violate him.
Josh, Mark, Simon and Connie cool guys. Felt like they were the most realistic in how most people would have reacted in being around those people after a while.
Pele, the real villain in this whole movie. Left the commune to find new recruits just to have them killed. Dani was just a bonus recruiter for him.
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