A Few Films I Watched Recently
Jun. 29th, 2025 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Mars Express French animated sci-fi film, tackling the subject of rights for non-human intelligences. These include both robots and dead people who have had their brains uploaded into robot bodies. Two cops tracking down hackers who 'jail-break' the artificials from their restrictions find themselves involved in a conspiracy of corruption and political manipulation.
It's a really good film, with a well balanced combination of action and ethical debate. It's also very French. Is it a good ending? Is it a sad ending? It might be a bit of both - like the real world, it's complicated, and who knows what the future holds?
Heretic A bottle psychological horror film, with a main cast of just three. Two young mormons visit the house of a man who wants to discuss theology and religion, but they soon start to get a bad feeling about their situation.
Hugh Grant is fantastic playing against type as an evil manipulator, slowly dragging people into a web of death and despair. Some of the religious commentary got a bit heavy-handed, even while valid, but overall I enjoyed it. A good example of what can be done with a small cast and a few sets.
Conclave Loved it! It's 90% political drama, with all the conspiracy and back-stabbing expected of the genre, that just happens to have the trappings of the Roman Catholic Church. It has a fantastic ensemble cast, with not a weak link among them. And of course I loved the ending, which absolutely cannot be spoiled.
It's a really good film, with a well balanced combination of action and ethical debate. It's also very French. Is it a good ending? Is it a sad ending? It might be a bit of both - like the real world, it's complicated, and who knows what the future holds?
Heretic A bottle psychological horror film, with a main cast of just three. Two young mormons visit the house of a man who wants to discuss theology and religion, but they soon start to get a bad feeling about their situation.
Hugh Grant is fantastic playing against type as an evil manipulator, slowly dragging people into a web of death and despair. Some of the religious commentary got a bit heavy-handed, even while valid, but overall I enjoyed it. A good example of what can be done with a small cast and a few sets.
Conclave Loved it! It's 90% political drama, with all the conspiracy and back-stabbing expected of the genre, that just happens to have the trappings of the Roman Catholic Church. It has a fantastic ensemble cast, with not a weak link among them. And of course I loved the ending, which absolutely cannot be spoiled.
