#SophieRois

[film-book]

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Film Review: A SACRIFICE (2024): A Thriller About Cults that Has Nothing New to Say https://film-book.com/film-review-a-sacrifice-2024-a-thriller-about-cults-that-has-nothing-new-to-say/?feed_id=144878&_unique_id=66c716ed3e39a

[wherever-i-look-blog]

A Sacrifice (2024) https://tinyurl.com/2jwogldr

[bgsqd]

Join @openloveny for @poly_movie_night @bgsqd tonight at 6:30. We’ll screen Three/Drei, (2010), directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Devid Striesow, Sebastian Schipper, and Sophie Rois. #tomtykwer #sebastianschipper #davidstriesow #sophierois (at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btjmn68F-gD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cmis72c5p5lj

[theory-thermos]

@the-awesome-viatrix​ @rad1o-static​ @sophieroy​

For people who live in the U.S., November can bring to mind a lot of things, and one of them is Thanksgiving. This can be a complicated holiday because while most people just see it as an excuse to get together with friends and family and pig out, we all know that the story of the "First Thanksgiving" is bullshit.

This November, and for as long as it takes, I'm asking you to keep Native American and Alaska Native rights in mind and to fight for them. ICWA, the Indian Child Welfare Act, is at risk.

This act was created to stop cultural genocide. Until the late 1900s, Native American and Alaska Native children were routinely kidnapped and placed in residential schools and white families, where they faced abuse, forced assimilation, and sometimes murder. ICWA was passed in 1978 to stop this by allowing tribes to control the foster and adoption placement of Native American and Alaska Native children.

However, today, the SCOTUS started hearing arguments in a case that could overturn ICWA. This would not only endanger children and allow cultural genocide, but it would endanger tribal sovereignty since it would deny sovereign tribes the rights over the placement of their own children.

This November, this Thanksgiving, and until ICWA has been upheld, I ask you to stand up for the rights of Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

Spread the word about what is happening. Don't let this get swept under the rug. Post about it. Tell your friends and family.

Sign petitions.

Write to representatives.

Reach out to local tribes to see what you can do to help.

Protest.

And if you can afford to do so, donate to Native American and Alaska Native organizations.

[superman-2050]

#netflix #battleofstalingrad #ww2 #worldwar2movies #warmovies #1940s #adolfhitler #nazis #worldatwar #1943 #enemyatthegates #edharris #majorkonig #josephfiennes #germanarmy #soviets #rachelweisz #bobhoskins #europeanhistory #nikitakrushchev #ronperlman #koulikov #sachafilipov #matthiashabich #generalpaulus #sophierois #ludmilla #vassilizaitsev #naziwarcriminals #naziwarcrimes https://www.instagram.com/p/CJQ72UCpZj-/?igshid=1qfip2decs9eu

[berlinisshit]

Itz Tricky....and itz Sophie Rois. #tricky #sophierois

[theenthusiasticcinephile]

3

1 hour 59 minutes

Not Rated (but it would probably get an NC-17 because the MPAA has a weird issue with the way two men having sex with each other is portrayed onscreen)

Directed by Tom Tykwer

Starring Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, and Devid Striesow

2.5 out of 4 stars

THIS IS A 2011 MOVIE. ON DVD NOW (in the states, however, I'm not sure)

Wow. Hear this story. A married couple each has an affair with the same man. And the couple is a man and a woman. AND THE AFFAIR IS WITH A MAN. Yep. Tom Tykwer's 3 definitely has a story Hollywood directors would never think of. I've shown some friends of mine the trailer for 3 and the reaction is the same: What?! That looks so weird! Of course Europe would make a movie like this! Well, I think 3 is a very intelligently-written comedy/drama not necessarily about people going gay but about two people finding pleasure in their lives after a long hiatus.

Hanna (Sophie Rois) is married to Simon (Sebastian Schipper) and though they harmlessly fight with one another at times they seem like a generally happy couple. Except something's missing. Simon tries to call Hanna all the time but she never notices it. They have sex in one scene and when Hanna isn't looking Simon takes off his condom and spits in it to make it look like he ejaculated. One day Hanna meets Adam (Devid Striesow) during a science conference thing (they're both geneticists I think or I don't know they work with cell structures I don't know which science they're in because I'm bad at science). Hanna feels something. She narrates the scene and starts hallucinating a somewhat pornographic video in front of her. She asks herself why? Why is she seeing this? Soon they start having an affair. Then another day Simon runs into Adam at a pool. They're talking as friends and then Simon explains how he recently got a testicle removed. Adam sees it. Like his wife, Simon feels something. Next thing you know Adam is jerking him off in the locker room. And then they're having an affair!

A lot of this works. Director Tom Tykwer (who's directed wild movies like Run Lola Run and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) treats human sexuality in such a unique way. Simon isn't necessarily gay. He does love his wife. He just feels pleasure with Adam. No labels are necessary. The same goes with Adam. Is he bisexual? I guess. Adam doesn't think about it that way. He's a totally normal guy who just likes to engage in any sexual pleasure he wants. Everybody is very well-cast here, Striesow in particular. He has that beautiful appearance that makes it seem plausible for these two people to fall for him. The movie is also beautifully photographed (Tykwer is a master of style).

So why did I give this 2.5 stars? Because Tykwer gets a little too obsessed with trying to be quirky. It ends up with him looking a little pretentious. He presents us with flashbacks, black and white footage depicting "what if" moments between Hanna and Simon, split screens depicting a whole bunch of events that are going on at the same time, and a really random scene in which Simon sees the ghost of his dead mother talking to him from up above. This causes the movie to lose so much flow it's frustrating to watch. Science also plays a huge role in the movie in that it seems to act like a metaphor somehow. I can't interpret it though. I've even cheated and read other critics' reviews to see if I can figure out the connection but I still can't interpret it! And worst of all, 3 has a really unsatisfying resolution. It's necessary yes but wayyyyyy too bland.

Don't get me wrong though 3 is a very unique look at sexuality and it's stylish as ever. It's just one of those movies that doesn't leave you as amazed as you think it will.

[film-book]

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A SACRIFICE (2024) Movie Trailer: Eric Bana & Sadie Sink discover a dangerous Cult / Party Scene in Berlin https://film-book.com/a-sacrifice-2024-movie-trailer-eric-bana-sadie-sink/?feed_id=134245&_unique_id=6655dedee83d3

[superman-2050]

#battleofstalingrad #ww2 #worldwar2movies #warmovies #nazigermany #nazis #nazism #judelaw #enemyatthegates #edharris #majorkonig #josephfiennes #commisardanilov #germanarmy #soviets #sovietarmy #rachelweisz #taniachernova #bobhoskins #nikitakrushchev #evamattes #motherfilipov #gabrielthompson #sachafilipov #matthiashabich #generalpaulus #sophierois #vassilizaitsev #naziwarcriminals #naziwarcrimes https://www.instagram.com/p/CJQ6zDcJrBN/?igshid=17kyx3xpd5y0r