Trapped is a new Bollywood arthouse offering starring the incredible Rajkummar Rao. Desperate to find suitable housing for himself and his fiancee, Shaurya takes an temporary apartment in a vacant highrise, only to have the broken door lock him in with no electricity or running water, no mode of communication, and no way out. Really this is a meditation on urban isolation and alienation, and it is riveting! You can find it on Amazon Prime. Rajkummar Rao is one of my favorite new actors, and one to watch for. 5/5 |
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Beware the Slenderman is a very intense new documentary from HBO. It was was shot over the course of 18 months after a 12 year old girl was stabbed 19 times by her two classmates who were trying to please Slenderman. This film is terrifying. Not because "Slenderman" is scary, he's really just your average modern day boogie man; he's basic folklore. He's the Pied Piper... This film is terrifying because 1- teenage girls are just about the scariest creatures out there and 2- mental illness. This film gets 'real' very quickly. Beware the Slenderman follows the year long court case in which in would be determined if the two accused 12 year olds would be tried as adults or children. So, watching this as the mother of a teen girl I was simultaneously reminded I'm already somewhat living in a horror movie and that I would hate to see anything bad happen to my daughter or worse, because of her. Terror, indeed. Secondly, as a person with mental illness this documentary terrified me because of how we treat and deal with mental illness and criminality. This film sorta punched me in the guts in a way I was not expecting...at all. 5/5 3-Iron (South Korea, 2004) is a South Korean romantic drama directed by Kim Ki-Duk. Ki-Duk makes a variety of films, some beautiful, quiet, and somber such as 3-Iron and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring, others gruesome, violent, and shocking such a The Isle and Bad Guy. 3-Iron is about a silent drifter who breaks into people's homes in order to fix broken appliances and to clean. When he breaks into a house he thinks is empty, it turns out he's being watched by a similarly quiet, young abused wife. The two begin a silent romance. This is an astonishingly beautiful film. I like quiet films and this is certainly quiet. This film is worth every precious minute. 5/5 Middle of Nowhere is about a young nurse who drops out of medical school to stay nearby, while her husband is incarcerated. Then, 4 years into his 8 year sentence she meets a divorced bus driver and falls in love. This was stellar. David Oyelowo is magnetic. Emayatzy Corinealdi is brilliant as the wife, Ruby. This is a film by Ava DuVernay, who directed Selma, and its heavy and serious and sincere with just enough hope and light. Nothing schmaltzy or cheap here. More of this kind of stuff please! 5/5 |
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