Showing posts with label thriller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thriller. Show all posts

17.6.20

365 Days – 2020 movie



This Polish slapdash gem of a movie feels like the implementation of an instruction manual called “How to dress, eat, drink, fuck, think (if you ever do) and act like rich, unscrupulous, criminal, self-serving, attractive and perverted shits that nobody should give a damn about” – and in that it quite resembles Fifty Shades of Grey. In fact, it’s likely that this is a case of calculated copy-catting based on the motto that the millions of flies who were attracted by that one can’t be wrong.

And apparently it is doing very much all right at the box office and on Netflix. A friend told me this had gone viral and was a must watch

Oh well, it struck me as someone’s synthetic attempt to create the kind of virtual reality you get by putting on a VR helmet to play some crude video game. Except that the actors are real (or are they?) and you can’t influence the plot no matter how much you’d like to end it prematurely.

Now that I’ve vented some anger about wasting about 25 minutes watching part of 365 Days, please feel free to abstain or see for yourself. Why, you might even like it! Long live diversity.

22.5.20

The Wedding Guest (2018)

Radhika Apte in The Wedding Guest

The British-American thriller The Wedding Guest (2018, directed by Michael Winterbottom) became available on Sky a few weeks ago and turned out to be one of the best films they added in a while in my humble opinion.

Playing in Pakistan and India, it tells the story of the abduction of a bride (Samira, played by Indian actress Radhika Apte) shortly before her imminent wedding and various stages of flight through Amritsar, New Delhi and Goa. Jay, the kidnapper, a British national of South Asian origin, is competently played by Dev Patel.

While not an action movie, the film keeps up the suspense, revealing details of the characters as the story moves on along the roads of Pakistan and India.