david_castillo7

I loved what I have watched from Ari Aster...until this one movie. It is not that I dislike it. In fact, I think it has some brilliant moments that stole a laugh from me. The acting is superb. The cinematography is beautiful to my taste and suits well with the story. But...yesss, but it is way too histrionic at times and too long as a whole. As a plain viewer and nothing else, some scenes are way too long (like the very last one), where the point is made within the first minute or two and there is no need to keep it 20 minutes long. And that gets me out of the story. It might be the pace, the editing or even that I am not getting something I should.

I don't like or dislike the movie. I do know that if it was about one hour shorter, I would have been more compelled. And that is what I believe this art of cinema was invented for.

Parallellisms between this work scenario and any job will most likely be found in one way or another. In my case, income being split in two while having to work more from one year to the next; also, getting surprised by the newbies being the ones more conservative when fighting to the unfair conditions or being more afraid to lose their jobs; automatization replacing people as the company sees us as mere numbers with no family conciliation needs.

Not one situation is easy. Even the factory owner, being so much "life's meaning is working" not realizing that is exactly the reason why he is not happy...or at least not admitting it.

This documentary does an incredible job giving us the different views while stealing our feelings surprising us being in almost tears, almost anger, or even laughs (few of these ones, though).

Capitalism is here to stay in more radical ways. Americans might have invented it, but the Chinese new generations are stretching the meaning of work and money as a way of life. A way of life that is not based on happinness but on having the latest tech you used not to have before while enjoying it in the free time you don't have anymore.

A newspaper reporter (Amy Adams) has to go to her hometown against her will to do research about girls dissapearing. Soon all her childhood traumas hit her with her mother as the personification of them all.

Natural photography is what hit me when I found out that not even light reflectors were used when filming outside. No artificial lights were used when out of the buildings (Jean Marc Vallee himself said this in a video I watched in YouTube) to pursue following the actors "real" reactions as they moved. Green is the colour you will almost always see that identifies this beautifully shot series.

If you want a fast action series, this is not it. If you are keen on more psychologically based characters that keep on building up faster than you realize, where just about any grown up woman is basically drunk (and in most cases you understand you would do the same),this is your series. Brilliant result.