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No One Will Save You - (2023)

There are a few surprises in store for those who watch No One Will Save You - chief among them the tone of the movie, which takes this alien invasion/abduction movie in a more playful direction than I was expecting. It's not without terror, horror and suspense - there are bucketloads of that - but it's not big on documentary-like realism. Secondly, the fact that it's dialogue free - which at times for me was too much of a distraction. There are those who complain that 'one-shot' movies rely too much on that one gimmick - but the same held true for me in this, with all the various instances where you'd expect dialogue twisted and contorted into instances where it never happens. I was always too aware of it. All that out of the way though - it was a gripping, compelling ride which I couldn't tear my eyes away from. Brian Duffield has some imagination, and you'll see how various sci-fi alien abduction tropes have been combined in novel ways - there's not much that's particularly new, but all-up the utilization of ideas and Duffield's methods make for an entertaining movie night. Booksmart's Kaitlyn Dever also deserves praise for carrying an entire feature film without one spoken line - an enormous challenge. A lot of fun this - fast paced in a manner that never lets up, and full of surprises.

7/10

I JUST finished watching this one. I think my response was a tad bit less positive than yours, but I agree that it manages to take things in some surprising directions and shows some good flair for imagination.

Triumph of the Will - (1935)

Here's what I wrote on letterboxd in my misery after watching Triumph of the Will yesterday : "So many fellow film buffs have seen this and either simply logged it or rated it that I found it necessary to do likewise so as to be steeped in all manner of documentary filmmaking. What did I find, personally? Mind-numbing order, monotonous rhythmic stomping of boots, terrifying portents of doom with the advance knowledge we have and meaningless cries and calls for "strength, unity, brotherhood and peace" - it was a frightening, sad attempt at the formulation of a new empire in the model of the old Roman one. The shouts and cries echo in my ears, and the endless marching made me nauseous. I can't rate this - but I've seen it, and that's enough."

No rating

At the time I was thinking about how strange it was, watching Triumph of the Will and Flipped together - what a weird double feature that would make at the movies.

Triumph of the Will is definitely the creepiest movie I've ever seen, far surpassing any horror movie, mainly because it's real, not a monster fantasy or mythical war. I need to watch it again some time, just to make sure that it's as weird as I recall.

One of my way-back college professors, teaching history, was a guy who had been in the Hitler Youth in Germany back then. He saw all that sh*t up close and personal as a teenager and said that something people miss is that it had to be more fun to be in the party than to be anybody else in Germany at that time. By the time he got in the real shooting war, the scales were off his eyes and he found a way to surrender and spend the duration in a POW camp, but his insights into life in that world were chilling.

I thought Ledger was brilliant in this movie.

Street Trash (1987) Street Trash relies on shock value and trying to be offensive and gross just for the sake of it. The story doesn't work very well and the acting is pretty bad. The score and cinematography are better than expected but overall this film is not very entertaining or very good.