JFF: What Was the Last Film You Saw, and How Would You Rate It? (Pt. 20)

@Tsarstepan​ 

To what film does it compare? It looks somewhat interesting.

@Maxence_G​ It's a romantic drama. I guess Before Sunset. But instead of strangers meeting on vacation (Before Sunrise), we have two childhood friends where one friend and her family leave South Korea and immigrate to Canada. They reconnect over a decade later.

@Maxence_G​ 

I am appaled by the Americans' fascination with serial killers. Seriously, what is the point? A lot of these films bring nothing new. Lots of these films are not great, there are not a thousand Psycho.

I think that there is a good deal of people who have sadistic fantasies. They just do not want to admit it. Otherwise, how can we explain the success of The Devil's Rejects, Dahmer, Henry. A great deal of people are revolted by the films I have named. But others, seem to enjoy them, and they demand more of the same. 

Well, you probably won't find anybody here defending the named junk, Maxence. I never really thought about how much more likely novelists and filmmakers from the United Stats are to create works in which the main character is a serial killer than folks whose nationalities are linked to other places. In other words, that kind of trend is one of those that can go completely unnoticed. I have, however, observed that more than a mere few biopics have been made about the same serial killers who had high victim counts and whose cases received extensive publicity. The mainstream media in the United States apparently try to capitalize on how these topics can hold the attention of at least one tenth of audiences. The question of how some serial killers managed to murder so many people really mainly merely boils down to the art of confidence trickery (which is easier when perpetrator and victim belong to the same demographic), and so truth be told, there does seem to be a popular fascination with infamous persons (including hedge fund brokers) who fooled large numbers of people, not even necessarily in a sequential or serial manner. I suspect, a lot of this may have to do with the fact that certain crimes are slightly more likely to occur in the United States, and upon discovery, they are more likely to be a big shock the world around, and the leaders of media outlets try to make a higher-than-usual living off of it. In the case of pyramid schemes and similar financial hoaxes, I do lean toward believing that severe cases of these are much more common in the United States than in Canada, Australia, South Africa, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, et al. On a related note, there is minuscule matter of a sort of rampage culture too. The ones respectively committed by Shawn Nelson and Marv Heemeyer are the kinds of things that seemingly have never happened in any place of other than the United States within the past fifteen decades. Oddly, nobody has made a biopic movie about these. Some of the most outrageous scenarios depicted in movies are based upon relatively rare events that have happened in real life, e.g. when an innocent person is abducted, wired with explosives and then given the ultimatum to carry out some kind of infamous heist or assassination. Not to drift even further into the subject matter of bizarro murder cases, but I'm not aware of anybody outside the United States who has ever committed multiple premeditated murders in so nuanced of a way as had Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh or John Allen Muhammad. Mind us, the thing that stands about about Kaczynski is that he was a mathematician, responsible for the inception of at least a couple of mathematical theorems. Some question exist as to what extent that Henry Murray's experiments upon the man back when he was a student helped push the educated man over the edge later in life. And yet people dare to wonder why conspiracy theories (liked directly to the United States war establishment and NATO) are more popular than scientific theories the world around, or do they?

Perhaps kind of like how the timing of the release of Silent Night, starring Roman Griffin Davis, made the flick seem of an anti-vaccination theme, which sort of seems the case anyway, as the basic premise is about how the masses often exhibit blind obedience to what they consider to be authority or expertise. Since around the year 2008, criticism of the "establishment" (UN, NATO, WEF, Bill Gates, neocon etc.) has been something of a thing embraced by the so-called alt-right wing as it has been come to be known through the past decade. Alex Jones' penchant for presenting absurd conjecture as fact and his very poor record of reliable journalism has somewhat discombobulated the portion of the people who have been fond of neither Democrats nor Republicans, or neither Labour nor Conservative, so on and so forth, for ages. We still don't know who was really behind the cue-a-nun 4chan nonsense, so now we have a conspiracy theory within a conspiracy theory, given the way psyops (like the ones of which the Russian Federation's GRU has been accused) are understood to work. The shame regarding Ukraine (and Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea) is how so few people have any memory of the way the conflict was back in 2014 with the Euromaidan shit. We're left wondering why so many memory holes keep occurring. The details of the situation are very twisted and convoluted. Inasmuch, "details" are psychologically unpopular.

@jeorj_euler 

Here is the ratings distribution for Silent Night. It is Normal:

Guilty pleasure?

:P

@jeorj_euler​ 

It is actually quite interesting. I love people like Dziga Vertov who were actually commited to advancing the art of cinema. I rated it 9/10