Movies, shorts, anime & series log

movie / documentary

in watching order, newest first

Solo: A Star Wars Story

seen 2018/10/14 - 2018 - imdb rotten tomatoes
torrent - ... star wars, watched for this reason

BlacKkKlansman

seen 2018/09/30 - 2018 - imdb rotten tomatoes
palace, bruxelles - USA, black power, kkk, trump, racism

Dogman

seen 2018/08/05 - 2018 - imdb rotten tomatoes
palace, bruxelles - italy, loneliness, prison, despair, low-life, drugs, integrity, black

Notre jour viendra

seen 2018/07/27 - 2010 - imdb rotten tomatoes
torrent - cassel, sociopath, delusional, escape, sexuality, north of france, sour

Blame! 2017

seen (again) 2018/05/23 - 2017 - imdb rotten tomatoes
torrent - dark sf, anime, tsutomu nihei, infnite city, terminal gene, respectful even if slightly wrong
Tsutomu Nihei Wiki

Insects (Czech: Hmyz)

seen 2018/03/26 - 2018 - wikipedia:Insects_(film) imdb
Nova - bxls, animation, mixed with documentary, funny, adapted from a Pictures from the Insects' Life by Karel and Josef Čapek.^[1], czech, Jan Švankmajer^[2].

Black panther

seen 2018/03/09 - 2018 - imdb - rotten tomatoes
Regal Union Square Stadium 14 - NY, trans-generational fratricide, black supremacy, woman scientist, power ranger tribes

Same kind of structure as in the movie Curse of the Golden Flower: the aristocracy of blood-right is not taken down at the end of the movie, but the story has modified the main male character.

The male figures are surrounded by women, nearly no secondary roles in the black suite of the two protagonists are men:

mother of the king (former queen),
sister (scientist),
future wife (undercover agent),
general (in love with a tribe's chief),
hacker (cousin sidekicks).

The king's tribe is the only one to have female elite troops, all other have a traditional male only army (gorillas & rhinos). At the crowning ceremony, only male pretenders are shown. Even if the overall societal structure is safe, the king keeping its dominant position at the end of the movie and therefore keeping the patriarchal order, the massive presence of secondary roles generates a fresh breeze across the movie. Some aspects of the king are to be noticed:

he kisses the future queen in a shy way,
he gives her a responsibility in its new projects,
the general is choosing her country and duty over her romantic affair when faced the choice of leaving,
the king is mentored by a woman (the general),
all young women characters participate in the last combat against male troops,
the king proposed a healing to his cousin instead of "finishing him".

The movie might be dangerous because it creates a hope that an fantasmagoric hidden & technologically advanced african country is able to inverse to power relationship between africa and the rest of the world. Even if a fiction can be a powerful kick to free humans from slavery, the way to do it is via an kind aristocracy. The underlying theme of africa oppression is embodied by the vilain, who planned a violent inversion of north/south the power relationship. Even if the movie stays in the entertainment area, it has the merits to talks about these unsolved north/south issues.

By the way, the lecture of the movie by Lupita Nyong'o is very positive for africans identity: https://twitter.com/GlblCtzn/status/987874290933563392

Articles:

Ni juge ni soumise

seen 2018/03/02 - 2017 - imdb
cinéma aventure bxls, belgitude, doigts coupés, exhumation, humour, humanité, prostitution, justice, strip-tease

Into me

seen 2018/02/24 - 2016 - watch online imdb - rotten tomatoes
youtube, short, Carly Chaikin³, dark love, photography, intimity

Chappie

seen 2018/02/15 - 2015 - imdb - rotten tomatoes
torrent, android, artificial intelligence, baby, die antwoord, empathy, gansta robot

Thor: Ragnarok

seen 2018/0?/? - 2017 - imdb - rotten tomatoes
torrent, poor plot & acting, pre-juvenile humor, cate blanchett(?), beautiful cg, colorfull planet

Laissez bronzer les cadavres

seen 2018/01/21 - 2017 - imdb - rotten tomatoes
nova, belgian, western, sorcery, allegory, robbery, not convincing

Barbarella

seen ? (completed) - 1968 - imdb - rotten tomatoes
cinematek, kitsch, retro-futurism, Paco Rabanne, eroticism, Duran Duran

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

seen ? (completed) - 2017 - imdb rotten tomatoes
torrent, nauseous humor, aggressive dialogs, very nice cg and color schemes

The Unfulfilled Potential of Video Games

seen ? (completed) - 2017 - youtube
youtube, video essay, video games, confrontation, ideology, fun theory

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

seen 2017/12/? (completed) - 2017 - imdb - rotten tomatoes
ugc de brouckère, telepresence

Goodbye uncanny valley

seen ? (completed) - 2016 - vimeo
vimeo, video essay, computer graphics, cg, wilderness, post-truth, post-cinema, theorical photorealism

Umshini Wam

seen ? (completed) - 2011 - vimeo imdb rotten tomatoes
vimeo, die antwoord, wheelchair, suburbs, gansta, pokemon, love

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

seen 2017/11/? (completed) - 2017 - imdb - rotten tomatoes
torrent, colorfull worlds, nice cg, parallel universes, bad acting, basic sexism

Arrival

seen 2017/11/05 (completed) - 2016 - imdb - rotten tomatoes
torrent, language, first contact, heptapods, time awareness, giant squid
related: Time Travel in Fiction Rundown(youtube)

String theory

seen ~2017/11/03 (completed) - uploaded in 2015 - #1, #2, comments of Dr Tony Padilla
youtube, documentary, physics, theory, fundamental

Blade runner 2049

seen 2017/11/01 (completed) - 2017 - imdb - rotten tomatoes
ugc toison d'or, photography & CG++, romantic relation with IA, hologram embodiment, memories factory, augmented vision