its so crazy that for the last 5 years a small but annoyingly vocal online group has been acting like mob movies of all things are pretentious and inaccessible cinema. yeah the godfather is kinda slow but these are movies about criminals who shoot people
Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!
Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*
Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!
Film Review 1- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Platform: Netflix original Film
Main 2 Characters: Juliet Ashton portrayed by Lily James and Dawsey Adams portrayed by Michiel Huisman
My Rating: 9.5/10
Thoughts/Review:
This is one of my all-time favorite Historical Fiction Films! Lily James is perfect for the role of Juliet Ashton. The scenery is amazing and gives off the perfect vibe for this Post-World War II film. The film's Writing is all you could ask for when making a movie version of a book. The film is very similar to how the book went, which a lot of movies based on a book have failed to do. Mike Newell's directing is superb and does a great job encapsulating the actor's emotion through close and medium shots. I have watched this film three times since August 2021 and each time it gets better and better.
I even showed it to my friend who only really likes movies and tv shows that are in a different language and she absolutely loved it (she also doesn't love romance which this film has). The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society is my favorite Netflix film I have seen and I will never get over how much I love it.
The entire 3-minute city ambiance scene from Ghost in the Shell (1995) is already one of the best moments in all of cinema imo, but I NEED to talk about my absolute favorite part from it:
That brief moment when Major Kusanagi and a stranger with her exact same body model catch a glance at one another. How quickly the initial curiosity of seeing the doppelgänger turns into a feeling of unease as the boat carries her away.
She will never meet this stranger. She'll never know anything about her other than the simple reminder that every piece of her cybernetic body is not unique to her. There is no part of her other than her brain and all its memories that she has any true ownership of, and even that isn't immune to being hacked and potentially erased by outside forces. Despite being a part of a bustling city, all she can do is reflect on how utterly isolated she feels as a living being.
How can she possibly define her humanity when she herself is confined in the form of what is essentially a highly modified weapon? How can she relate to others when she has more in common with the mannequins on display in a shopping mall than with the any of the people walking the streets?
All of this inner turmoil at one’s own existence conveyed without a SINGLE word of dialogue spoken. Now that's the power of cinema if I've ever seen it!