yoav-moran

I liked the action. It's well performed, well shot, exhilarating. This is the reason for most of the starts.

But every character encounter and dialog is awful. It seems that the director's instructions were merely "don't move, don't talk, do all your acting with your face". Heavy silences, heavy staring, heavy. I can't imagine real people behave like that - half of them don't speak at all, and if they do, it's the laziest lines possible "where's kirk? Dressing room. Where's that? There". Wow. And half of them speak and behave normally even when confronting an immutable person. It doesn't change anything in the dynamics. That's nuts.

I hate the dialogs here, and I loved it only for the other characters and action scenes. Next time I want to see a movie with humans, sounds nice.

Edit: Apparently Gosling had more dialog, and Mulligan and him decided they should skip lines and stare longingly instead. Ouch.

The episode takes place in a fictitious Muslim country, the "only one to have slaves". This shows how much the west is oblivious to what's happening, even today. The slave trade is very common in many Muslim countries, and millions of people are affected by it. This is so sad, and it leaves a bit of a bitter taste because guys, you haven't really solved anything. Maybe it fits the way the CIA was bumbling up on the 60s and 70s - they always thought that changing this regime or the other will solve the issue - but never was it the case.

Btw, I can also not imagine white women being sold as slaves in these countries. I can't imagine anyone buying them - the risk is too large. Why do it when you have many that the west doesn't care about?

Besides that - great 2 episodes, full of tricks and deceptions as the IM force knows how to make.