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A little update from me (there will be spoilers in the reviews)
The Quiet Earth: I had this film on my watchlist for a while so I was glad that it was nominated. It rarely happens, but the film actually was a lot like I anticipated it to be. A long part of the film is: a man who finds himself in the world alone, goes a little crazy after a while, etc. Then he meets someone and we see the defaults of humanity. Even if it was like I predicted I really enjoyed it, the world building (if we can call it that) was very good, I mostly liked the characters, but I have to admit that toward the end when they start to not get along so well together it seemed over the top for me. Not necessarily in the acting, but more so in the writing, the animosity that the black guy has toward the australian guy seemed a little out of no where. Still, I really enjoyed the film, it was a well made, entertaining genre film.
Maria Braun: I remember watching this 3,4 years ago and really hating it. But I was 17 years old, I rewatched it with fresh eyes and though I didn't love it, I still found it very interesting. The actress did a fantastic performance as Maria this woman who doesn't seem to really know who she is even though she thinks she knows. She has this weird conception toward her husband, she loves him profoundly (at least she seems to), but at the same time she doesn't mind sleeping around. Sure at the beggining you could say that she did it because she needed to for money, but when she had an affair with the french guy who offered her a job she didn't need to have an affair with him for money, she wanted to. Weirdly I liked this aspect of the film because its realistic, people aren't stones who always think and act the same way, we constantly search and reinvent ourselves.
2 points in the film made me a little uneasy to me
#1 The murder was kind of weird, it just happened without really any explanation. Is the beer bottle that Maria smashes on the guy's head the cause of his death? If not, why did Maria and Hermann kill him?
#2 The ending, why did Fassbinder made this ending out of no where? What does it mean? I don't really know, it's an open question.
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