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The Menu (2022)
10/10
McDonald's for Elite
19 November 2022
The movie cannot be belong to only one specific genre. It has elements of comedy and parody of expert's power. Movie poses some thriller core terrifying and keeping mystery of finale. Mystery reveals and ruins everything and everyone, except those who can decode symbols and know the rules. Sacral knowledge and profanity are overlapping and anxiety is landing on the edges of that. It seems like our happy and saving keys in American fastfood. Anyway, keeping personal borders even unusual situations increases chances to survive. As a survivor movie, the message is clear - only adequate evaluation of situation can give you chance to save your life. Guilds must give the Oscars for screenplay, directing and writing. Movie should keep a disclaimer "do not use ideas from this movie for your upcoming Thanksgiving dinners". Well done and perfectly served for moviegoers.
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Blonde (2022)
10/10
Emotional rollercoaster
3 October 2022
Movie plays with your residual knowledge and fictional interpretation of MM. Each piece of movie attaches your attention. Makeup, nudity, acting, screenplay create many layers of perception - from excitement to depression. Even understanding the industry settings does not stop young women to pursue the dreams through the bed. The bed is a jumping start to the high point in society and the lowest bottom of our life. In this masterpiece the director drove us on this emotional rollercoaster and shared his vision of career based on intensification of a child's trauma. This tribute can help to escape the mistakes for others.

1000 points out of 10. My favorite for the award season of 2023 year.
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The Invitation (II) (2022)
5/10
Superwoman from Transylvania
26 August 2022
The movie is reshuffling numerous narratives. It give some fresh look from stories familiar from childhood. Make-up is funny, costumes and sets are valuable part of this show. Acting is balancing. Eve and Vicky produced the most interesting feud during this story. Watchable.
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10/10
Incredible Cast is Casting Doubts on Everyone's Integrity
13 February 2022
Netflix gathered a fantastic ensemble for this show. Incredible cast is casting doubts on everyone's integrity. In first episodes you can assume the show portrays Anna Chapman and Maria Butina (alleged exposed spy-women). However, in fact, this storyline is unveiling Anna Sorokina's social mobility experience within the Island of Immigrant's Tears and Hopes - NYC.

Writers incorporated real rhetorical strategies of high society members in the lines of characters. Actors and actresses made an outstanding contribution with vocal transformation and emotional tension (Rachel in MARRAKECH is supreme) in every scene. It is impossible to watch this show without Google's assistance. Curiosity provokes to make a fact checking for all details despite the disclaimer says "it is based on a true fake."

In final episodes the authors of the show invite to make a balance of losses and wins for each character. And it seems like no one is an angel in this story. Each character distilled his or her own profit from every situation and moment. The show leaves a wide range of interpretations and ambiguous feelings. It is entertaining and provocative in every aspect.
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10/10
A Beacon of Aesthetics and Morality
10 January 2022
This movie serves as a beacon of aesthetics and morality. Passion invites people to make a choice. This choice is laying through moral attitudes and perception of beauty. It is a hard journey and . A whole heritage of the Italian cinematography is incorporated in one movie. It is amazing job.
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6/10
Ode to Proteins
1 January 2022
The movie invites to watch the story until the end. However, the plot is never ending. The picture stuffers the lack of intellectual development. The human protein is a central part of all journeys of the characters framed by ideologies of Christianity, digitalism, transhumanism and etc.

The casting department made a great job allowing to attract new faces. There are a lot of interesting things for technician nominations for the award season.

A director and writers team failed to develop story and present the valuable narrative. The authors embedded the plot in commonly known patterns of dystopia. Only cast and VFX made a real resurrection of this story.
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5/10
Total Abuse
26 November 2021
The screenplay is perfectly crafted. Every chapter shows numerous forms of abuse - spiritual, financial, trust, and etc. Make-up and costume department made an incredible contribution in storytelling of wins and losses of human madness with money and fame. However, casting is not perfect. Leading characters performed by Driver and Gaga made the story looking cheap and weak to be fit into the criminal drama genre. Al Pacino and Salma Hayek made an outstanding request for new Oscars in their careers.
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Bodyguard (2018)
9/10
When Reality Trumps Fantasy
8 January 2021
This TV show introduces a wide range of stories on conflicts between the special services and other law enforcement agencies. The root of the conflicts may be based on the controversy over the power controlling the financial flows and connections of politicians with criminals. So, the plot embraces several conspiracy narratives and fictional books (for example, 007 by Ian Fleming). The development is pretty entertaining.

A significant feature of the movie is that it models situations close to reality. The storyline suggests that the audience maintain doubts regarding the integrity of officials, until the end of the story. The conduct of characters does not demonstrate logical pathways until the entire story is revealed. This TV-series inspires critical thinking. A coup among officials has been repeated throughout history. For that reason many countries have instituted legislatures to prevent and punish certain activities that undermine the functions of the government. In this show, officials face the ethical dilemma of weighing the public good and personal security or personal gain against the public's interest. This dilemma challenges all of the characters throughout the episodes.

The plausibility of the show rests on the challenge facing the overall integrity of government officials. The TV-series is ambivalent. Sometimes we are led to believe that reality trumps fantasy and other time the fantasy is more plausible. For example, as in the House of Cards, this movie is infested with unethical conduct, but, at the time, the authors provide viewers with arguments which may justify such conduct. In reality, yes, certain conduct is unacceptable and is unlikely that it would ever be tolerated. However, certain elements, like the leaking of the official's itinerary and intentionally reducing the level of security, might have real life parallels.
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10/10
Be Merciful
25 December 2020
It is a heartwarming and heartbreaking story. This emotional rollercoaster invites us to be merciful to the transgressions of others. This movie is a truly meaningful story supporting our hopes. So, it's the best Xmas movie of this dovic-19 year.
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Chiki (2020)
10/10
Uncensored Daily Life in Russia
3 October 2020
Intersectionality of Russian life is perfectly portrayed in this TV-series. The artistic tools, comedy and drama, are blended into the entertaining plot detailing Russian sexual workers. The storyline raises a debate on unspoken things in suburban communities - sexuality, masculinity, feminism, corruption, social mobility. The show has a significant allusion to Charlie's Angels movies with one exception, prostitutes were determined to escape from any further assignments. They were under male dominance, but the shadow economy (corrupt officials, fraud realtors) created obstacles to their goals. All of the scenes look incredibly plausible and incorporate a lot of elements from the modern criminal life of Russia.
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Get Out (I) (2017)
7/10
AMERICAN TRAUMA TURNED INTO THE HORROR
22 April 2020
American Society has undergone certain traumas, racial discrimination being one of them. US racial discrimination has a long history in society and along with its articulation in the law, politics, education and the arts. The movie "Get Out" engages and represents the common racial innuendoes which can be experienced in US society even nowadays. The "Get Out" looks like a science fiction-drama in the cerebral sorting of people. Several similar points, like a mass brainwashing and ethnic bias, make this movie closer to the public masses that were indoctrinated to hatred in, using similar methods (Holocaust movies, 1984, or The Human Centipede or closed society conspiracy movies.)

In the movie "Get Out" the closed society of medical professionals develops the racial theory, in which they exercise white supremacy over black people. African Americans are subject to medical experiments, sexual slavery, and domestic duties. The movie underlines the typical stereotype of African Americans (unable or incapable of mental or intellectual enterprises) and shows how racial microaggression can be multi-faceted. For example, when Dean Armitage, the Caucasian head of this closed club, meets with Chris, the African American boyfriend of Dean's daughter, he (father) denies his own racism by avowing that he supported Obama as the First African American President. It is a typical hook for people who try to refute the racist accusations by declaring that voting for Obama gives immunization from racial discrimination allegations.

Another example of emphasizing the racial stereotypes in the movie is how the guests of "the symposium" (in fact - auction) looked at Chris. They looked at him as an object, like goods for sale, not as a person. Guests paid attention only to Chris's physical appearance, not to his personality, his talents as a photographer and etc.

In the ending of movie, the brain of African Americans are just simply removed and trashed in a bin. Metaphorically, the scene of throwing Georgina's scalp in the thrash can symbolizes Dean Armitage's racism theory. They are interested only in the bodies, not in the brain (soul). The racist neuroscientists pay attention to the physical body, not mental capabilities of the brain of African Americans. Moreover, the final scenes reveal that "crazy brain scholars" believe the use of the body of an African American can increase their own lifespan.

Thus, the movie allows viewers to extract a number of racial innuendoes. However, all of them can be qualified as verbal and non-verbal. Verbal elements of the movie constitute the bias of white characters against the black people which can be detected directly as racism of the main characters. Non-verbal scenes open the metaphorical level of the expression of racial attitudes of people who exercise their racial prejudice and bias. The movie does not give solutions, but it switches the American problems into the horror genre and focuses viewers to rethink the problem in the thriller framework.
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Queen & Slim (2019)
10/10
Blue Bully Bullet
13 February 2020
The movie starts and ends with cruel injustices. The situation of the main characters is provocative. It is about a societal problem, when injustices are perpetrated by people who have been assigned and appointed to enforce and implement justice. The story is hopelessly sad and shows how silence can undermines the truth.

The movie splits into two opposing narratives: one is the media representation of events from an official reports (as usual, from local enforcement agencies) and another is based on the common experiential knowledge of the community. Media newsfeed from the screen is refracted through the common perception of the black-police confrontations within the black community. The movie shows two different informational worlds. The storyline provokes sympathy in the main characters. The film provides a bit of advocacy for people who fall victim to the misconduct of public employees.

The conclusion of the movie emphasizes the presumption of guilt mainly towards people of color in certain U.S. sectors, whereas the presumption of innocence is the prevailing attitude in the legal system. One mistake of a police officer costs the lives of others. Deliberate misconduct of public employees affects the live of private citizens. The movie speaks up for the silent victims of "the blue bully bullets", victims who will never have the opportunity to tell their version of the story.
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7/10
Making Money on Unhappiness
9 February 2020
The Marriage Story does not attempt to teach, does not explore new issues, especially for people who have experienced divorce and the division of financial assets and child custody. The movie scratches the souls of viewers by dramatizing the tenacious claws of the legal professionals that make money on human disappointment and conflicts.

The Marriage Story starts from at the breaking point of a marital relationship. Love has expired, but careers have advanced. For the main characters to get through this chaotic stressful process, therapist and legal advisors are called upon to ameliorate the situation. The beginning of the movie starts with the introduction of each character through the use of the opposing spouse's description. It creates a bridge of understanding for viewers, regarding the marital relationship. However, the break up, without legal action is unavoidable. That's why a significant part of the movie concerns legal intervention at the final point of the marriage.

The movie dialogue, especially that of Laura Dern's character, is particularly brilliant. Her monologue that most people deprived from fatherhood (God is father, father is on the heaven, accordingly children do not need to see their fathers - is a pretty persuasive rhetorical hook) sounds so argumentative, despite certain critics of the Christianity could be found (negligence in faith-based issues, presumption of inequality and etc.). Much of the lead characters exposition is reeled through the legal proceedings. Certain scenes look like the remake of Revolutionary Road (2008) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet). The sad part of the movie that it never shows situations where a win-win deal is possible.
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Beanpole (2019)
10/10
Pursuing Opportunity
7 January 2020
''Beanpole'''s character, Iya (Viktoria Miroshnichenko), looks like the goddess Mara in Slavic traditional mythology, i.e. the Goddess of Death. She, Beanpole (the nickname of Iya), kills people intentionally and haphazardly. She erases hope. This only happens in the beginning of this story. The disgusting feelings viewers have felt towards the lead characters at the beginning of the movie turn into sympathy and understanding in the end. Although the aftertaste is for the viewers similar to that of Gisaengchung (2019) and Joker (2019) - exhaustion and anxiety.

Gay scenes in the movie between two retired female soldiers appear as a side effect of posttraumatic stress disorder. The war situation and reduced male population forced an obsession with female friendships. However, observing the relationships of Masha and Iya, in the final scenes, suggest to viewers that their feelings for each other do not depend on their postwar trauma. The connection between Masha and Iya is not circumscribed and framed by motherhood or sisterhood. It is something bigger than that. So, their love is free of any gender dimension, age or whatever else.

The portrayal of a survival pattern in post war Russia is also a big theme of this movie. Economic attitudes of sharing everything, absence of private property, obsession with fertility, searching for the meaning of life, biopolitics (euthanasia, abortion, same sex issues) are brilliantly incorporated in this drama. Economic polarization of golden boy Sasha and low class Masha (Vasilisa Perelygina) is perfectly explained by the dialogue of Lyubov Petrovna (Kseniya Kutepova) and Masha during a high tension lunch revealing the social background of both of them. The ambiguous dialog of these women points to a sarcasm and victimization, especially for Sasha, whose heart was broken. The conclusion of this lunch shows that social mobility through marriage is limited. And there is no chances to pursue financial opportunities in the post war Russia for women.

Soviet visual art in the movie perfectly reflects the perception of depression in that time and the suppression of liberties under those conditions. Clothes and food - basic elements - are cause for excitement in the lives of the lead characters. Meanwhile, though, Dylda (2019) has certain references to Renaissance period, the sets are framed in the Soviet heavy visual reality (soviet ideological posters, excellent soviet mode of life representation like in Chernobyl (2019)). For instance, scenes with bathing (See The Judgment of Paris, Peter Rubens, c. 1636; The Three Graces, Raphael. (1504-1505); La Fornarina, Raphael (1518-1519)) and exposition of people eating together, in allusions to 'The Last Supper', gives some religious and mythological layout. Soviet visuals meet the Renaissance, and this adds a especial aesthetic to the movie, raising hope and faith. Subsequently, faith and hope help to pursue opportunities available for women in this cruel world of war.

Everyone can articulate his / her own ideas from this story. The film allows the viewers to extract and to think out several options of how to struggle with challenges in that postwar period. However, the common denominator of all possible outcomes in this movie should be one red line - love each other unconditionally. Love opens numerous opportunities.
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Uncut Gems (2019)
10/10
Find Your Egregore
1 January 2020
Uncut Gems (2019) presents fantastic storytelling with outstanding screenplay and a superb cast. This movie incites an abnormal level of anxiety - sounds, camera and visual effects haunt your mind, even after leaving the theater.

This is the story of a man who lives "on the come." The main character Adam Sandler is excited to make money from his desires and passions. His needs and goals are a priority at the expense of his family and friends. He believes in his dream and does not give up under any circumstances.

The persistence of the moving camera and a loud and noisy soundtrack create an atmosphere of anxiety. Who the real satellite of Howard's universe is isn't clear - lover (Julia Fox), wife (Idina Menzel), or uncut gems. All his satellites shine in some kind of sexual, intellectual or literary meaning. But even the strong light of his satellites cannot not help to secure his equilibrium, his sense of gravity - and not spin off his axis.

Meanwhile, this movie is a great art representation of the risks in human life. If somebody finds his / her egregore ("thoughtform") an relies on this, it is not necessary to eliminate he risk of future outcomes of their business, sport and whatever else activities. The risk is in the blood of people of who play for high stakes. This movie perfectly underlines and dramatizes the real facts related to accepting the risks. And loss is the reverse side of any risk behavior. The final scenes of the movie raise the debate of the role of risks in human life. And that certain fetishes and or gems help people to chill anxiety in human risky behavior.
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10/10
Sugar Overdose
31 December 2019
It is the sweetest episode ever. So cute situations and sweet dialogue. Writing is outstanding.
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Bombshell (I) (2019)
10/10
Support Your Whistleblowers
20 December 2019
Encouraging, persuasive, outstanding storytelling. The film encourages people to expose the truth. If you keep silent it will hurt others and it will also hurt the holder of that silence. The underlying factual background for this story makes this drama persuasive in most details: feeling the pressure of peers; the sense of an insecure unstable environment; sadness of victim of harassment. The cast and music score help to deliver a message about resistance against improprieties within the work environment. 📚 🎥

The make-up Department is paramount. The likeness of the real people to the movie characters is fantastic. However, the make up of certain actors looks a comedic. An absolutely unexpected transformation happened with Charlise Theron, who adopted Megan Kelly's voice, posture and facial movements. Sharliz Theron is famous actress with the ability create characters that transform her identity. The make up team has taken the technical aspects of the craft and turned at into an artistic achievement. 💄 💇

The movie expresses a powerful maxim: "Whistleblowers save the World". "See something - say something" - this is the final point of this movie. Although it is a additional head ache for the HR department to verify complaints but without testimonies of the victims of harassment, the job environment could be still be a wide field for predators for many years. So, the movie shows how whistle-blowers can break down the wall of silence and cover-ups in the work environment (P.S. make home work and do right things). 🌎
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The Good Liar (2019)
10/10
Your Past is Your Sentence
10 December 2019
One girl's pain and sorrow from a childhood accident is the cornerstone of this movie. In "Good Liar" the girl kept throughout her life a sustaining idea of how to execute her way of justice in memory of her own family. The story about how this punishment is delivered includes comedic and dramatic elements.

Revenge is a central theme. Despite the fact that it is dressed in the folds of a simple romantic story of an elderly couple. It seems weird the way "justice" is served in a very non-conventional way. However, the moralistic message of the movie allows us to revisit our past acts in order to prevent disappointments in the future.

The conclusion is controversial. On the one hand, revenge for past transgressions is justified in the movie. On the other hand, it is hard to categorize old events and actions as crimes or misbehavior, because, in the past, people weree not looking at certain situations as sexual harassment and / or violence.
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9/10
Everything Has Its Own Place
6 December 2019
The idea of the show is simple - everything should be in its own place. The storytelling of regular people under different circumstances, a diversity of ethnic and social background of families are the most entertaining part of the TV-Show. The 5 elements of organizing things by Marie Kondo are universal and applicable to most households. The big problem is the mental and emotional traps of people which do not let to cut connections with their possessions.
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Frozen II (2019)
10/10
Do Right Things
22 November 2019
Disney unites people intergenerationally and interculturally. It is fabulous that Disney Studios can find a subject to bring together people trhoughout the World, despite age and cultural differences. Frozen, by itself, is a treasure in Disney's artistic heritage. Cartoons and productions from Disney (even during the years of Walt Disney's life) often incorporate the many layers of complex and non-childish topics (For example, See Victory Through Air Power (1943) and how this animated movie helped USA win the World War II). Animation language became the more affordable tool of communication. In comparison, literature and filmmaking have restrictions (specifically, language) in the delivery of complex topics to a wide audience. If previous works from Disney aggregate the medieval narrative about woman as an object (Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and etc.), then new animated pictures, for example, Frozen, create the female character as active subject, full of rationality and bravery.

Frozen II gives us a fantastic experience of reaching into the past in order to clarify and understand the future. Everyone will find his / her own character relative to their emotions. There is an incredible message about doing the right things to bring Peace, Joy, and Hope into the world. If the First Frozen has heavy underlying topics of women empowerment and gay semiotics, than this Second Frozen emphasizes more of a historical and political background, with an accent on immigration policy (acceptance of otherness, cohabitation, sheltering, asylum). The broken union between the Kingdom and Forest explicitly refers to American history and how "the pilgrims" (new aliens) treated the Native Americans. Certain inquiring minds will be able to perceive articulated Biblical plots and Mythologies in Frozen II (Olaf's Resurrection, Tongues of Fire; Song "Show yourself" as a Christian hymn; Aisoyimstan as the Snow God among the Native Americans, Mara is Slavic Goddess of Winter).

In Frozen II Disney Studios have made an enormous effort to appeal to various ethnic audience in order to achieve a huge commercial success. Some people will extract certain ideas and messages which even the authors could not have anticipated, other people will just enjoy the animated miracles and masterpiece of art. Although people are divided and separated by the past as in the real world, as well as in the World of Frozen movie, Frozen II shows how people can find the ideas of mutual benefit in living together. Just do right things.
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10/10
Legal Traps of American Dream
19 November 2019
This is an outstanding and heartbreaking documentary. It educates and extends the boundaries of understanding regarding current issues in America and the world. The TV-series shows how complex the immigration process can be. The show reveals the weakness of the American law and governmental issues which need to be fixed. The unspoken consequence of the show is the lives of main characters in the hands of other people - journalists, attorneys, governmental officials, and citizens who elect the public employees who do nothing to resolve the legal traps into which most immigrants fall due to lack of sufficient knowledge, skills and operational support.

The show is proposing two group of arguments: emotional and legal. The first group argues: "We come to look for a better life"; "My heart is American"; "Pursuing hope"; "Live in the American Dream". These do not succeed in presenting legally sufficient arguments in communication with officials. These arguments are emotional and allow the audience to feel the pain and the depth of disappointments of people who in various ways became labeled as "undocumented." The events are so different and become even shocking to imagine oneself in situations, such as family dividing, persistent anxiety of deportation and detention, living on the low-profile, living without the advantage of fulfilling of expressing oneself. Netflix did an outstanding job of revealing the stories of certain families among of the thousands like them. At this point the emotional framework is a good approach to present the problem, but not to resolve the issues.

Certain blueprints for resolutions were presented in the expert interview accompanying the storytelling of family experiences battling with immigration authorities. For example, people come to the USA legally, but their communications with officials through misunderstandings and misrepresentations thrust their status into "illegal circumstances" (misapplying the tattoos meanings, unreasonable rejects, mistakes in the applications, overstaying through the misunderstanding of the rules and laws). Expert interviews and statistics clearly establish to the audience that legal traps have existed over the years, and the current administration just does reactive efforts, because there is no established dialog between the policymakers from the prior years. Another example presented in the show is when children and adults come to the US without traceable legal pathways. The law does not give any pardon and amnesty even for this group of immigrants who make a contribution to American society through business activity and local community development. It bars safe pathways from them to get any asylum status, and/or to convert their circumstances into more legitimate shape (channels). The TV-series shows that these people have the credits and traceable history playing by the book, despite arriving outside the legal system. Deportation is only the one working tool to enforce the law under the current immigration policy (and this is working only if the US government has an agreement with home county of immigrants). This contradicts the spirit of the American law which promises happiness to people ("Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness "; the United States Declaration of Independence).

Based on the foregoing, the TV-Series speaks for all families who feel tricked by the American Dream. Still, they did not give up in their faith to pursues a better life in America. The documentary, with pointed accuracy, presents the pain and anxiety of the families who faced certain immigration policy implementation. The show reveals that all immigration cases cannot be generalized and labeled as "criminal" per se. Through the stories of families, Netflix clearly establishes that current methods of enforcing the immigration law should be revised and modified. This Netflix show has the potential of changing people's hearts and minds and deserves to be seen by a large audience.
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Loveless (2017)
10/10
From Russia with Loveless
6 November 2019
The plot of this movie is directing the audience to not be indifferent. The missing boy story illustrates the complicated relationship between a married couple with different social backgrounds. As with most of Andrey Zvyagintsev's movie narratives (e.g. 'Elena', 'Leviathan'), "Loveless" addresses the social issues of Russian society. 'Loveless' dramatically shows the disconnection between married people when love expires.

Social cohesion (willingness to be a member of the group) is an important element of society. In "Loveless" the author shows several ways of how social cohesion can be ruined. And technically, the universal absence of love is one of these ways. The movie shows that the termination of a relationship is simple if people are not united by love. And a missing child serves as a litmus paper in challenging the absence of love in personal relationships.

The movie is highly 'standardized' and follows a wide-range of famous cinematic templates. The movie absorbs some elements from Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman. From Tarkovsky the author adopts certain cinematic techniques but his constant use of them becomes annoying imposition such as the reflection of the sky on the water. From Bergman - he borrows the storytelling style of broken relationships. So, Zvyagintsev's movie reflects a customized product for high-ranking viewers like juries on festivals, top-ranking reviewers and studio executives. However, for a regular viewer, this movie can be interesting too, because it reveals certain elements of Russian society which must be decoded.

There are several points which can hook the viewers' attention and help decode real life Russia. One is how the author of the movie incorporated certain elements of everyday life in Russia. For example, the Sochi Olympic costume on Zhenya, the main character, in the end of the movie show her social-economic identity. Usually, it was a feature of the high-income group of Russians who could afford to wear that sport costume, especially just for home exercises. So, Zhenya represents a high-income woman, wherein, her husband, Boris is presented as a henpecked loser. Moreover, Boris's habit of watching TV persistently is a feature of a low-income and narrow-minded person, who depends on the Russian Government-funded media.

In general, the movie shows that Russian society has a potential for a certain form of solidarity. However, the solidarity of people is often based on tragic events. And tragic events, unfortunately, such as a missing juvenile, do not help to recharge the relationships and feeling in a marriage. The ending shows that Zhenya and Boris are not companionable, either in love, or in their financial interests. Loveless wins.
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As I Am (2019)
10/10
Hard Choices of Adolescence
20 October 2019
As with most movies that involve a mystery, "Philophobia" reveals the secret life of adolescence within a rustic setting. The forest is the central set for the performances, wherein romantic dreaming, testing friendships, exercising of liberties and independence are all manifested. Inconsistency in storytelling is justified by the final scenes.

All scenes are full of loneliness and searching. Building friendships and romantic experience is undercut through growing up in the single-mom families. There are no images of fatherhood, i.e. children do not have communications with male-parents. This gap in revealing the father-children relationships since the beginning of the movie warns about vulnerability of those teens. Their misbehaving can be explained by the absence of the paternal presence.

The main character, Kai, goes through various challenges during the movie. Kai's choices separate the movie into the chapters. First dilemma - girlfriend Grace, second - boyfriend on that girlfriend, Kenner. Kai's decisions are not consistent, his mind vacillates. The final scenes show that moral choices are hard, but they direct the pathways in people's lives.
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10/10
Institutional Support in Love 💘
20 October 2019
Skillfully scripted and well-written lyrics open the discussion on the role of institutional support in personal relationships. First, the musical shows how the metric system is applicable to love affairs. Second, it sarcastically focuses viewers on the stereotypes of female conduct in romantic relationships. Third, the musical articulates a concept incorporated in many religious ideologies, i.e. woman as an object, woman as a commodity.

Numerous elements of neo-management and quantophrenia (See Pitirim Sorokin) argue that relationships are curable if certain scales and methods are applied. Artistically, the device which measures the level of treatment from romantic rejections is a unique element of this short-movie. It gives some level of fun and refers to certain modern dating apps. If dating apps appear as a mass market tool for hook-ups, then in the movie, the special institution which cures "broken hearts" adds an element of prestige.

The second narrative that can be inferred from this short-musical is about the wide-range of prejudice toward a woman's credibility. Women are shown as marionettes guided by mercantile ambitions. Their responses in relationships are based on imitating everything - orgasm, appreciation, excitement and etc. It is pretty funny when these responses are sarcastically included in the lyrics and presented in the choreography.

And, the last major theme of the movie is the premise that women don't have choice. As in certain societies, in this movie women are a commodity. Leah, the main character, was selected for marriage by principal administrator. The final scenes dramatize and underscore a significant portion of certain cultural ideologies, wherein the woman represents a commodity, a thing. As Janis Joplin sings "Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?", the client requests a "new ride". The director of the movie parks the idea that women are just a car for a ride, and all institutional support in personal development just tunes the female settings for the market. As if it there were a garage, Leah safely "parked" for marriage.
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The 100 (2014–2020)
10/10
Psychology of Elite
8 October 2019
This show demonstrates dystopia, and, through this dystopia, authors explicitly articulate a psychology of the elite. There are two group of elite: one who has survived in space, another - who has survived on the Earth after a nuclear disaster.

Children and teenagers who were born and grew up in the space are the focus of most TV episodes. Through these teens, showmakers reveal the basics elements of social cohesion: safety, trust, and needs (i.e., food and housing). The group of teenagers from the sky establishes their own rules and immediately break them. Emulating their parents in space, they follow the principles of their leadership - leaders are not who follow the law, leaders are those who know when he/she should not follow the law.

In general, this TV-series like all dystopias, shows possible ways in which society can cure some ecological, military, and governing problems. Some of these solutions are radical, but others are rather applicable to some existent societies and communities in the real World. The significant advantage of this show is that it gives the audience a matrix in which to think about their own social life, and to make a choice to be elite or to follow the elite.
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