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Posts Tagged ‘Drama’

Old Boy (Oldeuboi)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

There were many times I felt so dis­gusted I almost turned the movie off, but some­how couldn’t rip my eyes away from the screen. I’m not sure whether to clas­sify it as a cin­ema mas­ter­piece or some­thing akin to a solar eclipse that will leave per­ma­nent scars on my retinas.

Y tu mamá también

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Net­flix describes this film as “an escapade that involves seduc­tion, con­flict and the harsh real­i­ties of poverty.” If you count awk­ward teenager sex as seduc­tive, hor­monal out­bursts and sense­less dou­ble crosses as con­flict, and an anony­mous nar­ra­tor occa­sion­ally sug­gest­ing some sec­ondary char­ac­ters are on the low end of the eco­nomic spec­trum as the harsh real­i­ties of poverty, then this descrip­tion is dead on.