I Live I Die I Live Again Meaning

Join me in raising a glass to Quibi, the seize with teeth-sized video service that everyone in the earth knew would fail except the leadership at Quibi. From launch to close down in half dozen months — that's truly remarkable.

Although it's funny to see this thought blow upwardly so robustly in the faces of Jeffrey Katzenberg and 1000000 Whitman, information technology sucks for those lower on the ladder. They worked hard to produce shows they knew no ane would spotter, and now they're out of their jobs. I'm sure in that location was good stuff on the service! Merely I was never, always going to lookout information technology.

In better news, subsequently last week's pocket-sized respite, our selections for this calendar week get back to the Cringe Blog themes you know and love/hate.

"The Wailing" (2016)

Prime number Video, rated R, 156 minutes

Jun Kunimura in "The Wailing." Photo source: Prime number Video.

There's a new rule that I want to implement, and the rule is that every movie must contain dueling religious rituals set to increasingly loud and frenetic music.

"The Wailing" taught me this. "The Wailing" likewise taught me — reminded me, to be more than accurate — that Republic of korea makes better horror films than anyone else. Those filmmakers empathize the importance of feeling, of temper, is much greater than that of jump scares.

Here we take Jong-Goo (Kwak Do-won), a detective who is not quite bumbling but certainly not elite at his job. He messes upwardly sometimes, which isn't normally a huge deal in his small village; zero much happens there. Until stuff starts happening there. Brutal killings, a string of them, each by a different person. The perpetrators are connected by the brutal rash they share, pus prominently presented. This rash/expletive remains, draining them of their mental capacities, until they eventually die.

Signs brainstorm to point to a secretive Japanese man (Jun Kunimura) as the one putting a curse on these people. Some even refer to him as a ghost, fifty-fifty though he'southward visibly flesh and blood. There are stories of him eating the raw meet of a deer carcass on all fours deep in the woods, his eyes glowing cerise. When Jong-Goo has a dream that matches these stories, it's enough to spring him into action. He and his partner (Son Kang-gook) pay him a visit.

What they find chills them, merely information technology's not enough to make an arrest. And things go from bad to worse when Jong-Goo returns home to detect his adolescent daughter (Kim Hwan-hee) starting to develop the murderous rash.

Kim Hwan-hee and Kwak Practise-won in "The Wailing." Photograph source: Prime Video.

"The Wailing" is frightening in all the right ways. Director Na Hong-jin keeps the film's mysteries locked away for much of the run fourth dimension, keeping the audience guessing every bit to what's actually happening. The surface level story is dark, and the unsaid story might be even darker once you lot connect a few dots and call up near how these people are getting ill. But the movie won't practice that for yous; "The Wailing" is a complex story, and if y'all want to solve it all, you might accept to watch it twice (at to the lowest degree). It touches on a lot of things, chief among them what it means to believe in something. Is sight and bear upon enough? Or can our eyes and hands be deceived? How do we ever know who to trust?

It also tries to be a lot of horror genres at once. In that location are scenes that pay homage to possession films, zombie films, cult films and serial killer films. Somehow, it all works, maybe because the whole narrative is fractured from the kickoff. If a film is consistently messy, information technology is really messy at all? Or is that part of the entreatment?

Complexity bated, the moving picture does come up to a conclusive ending, and it's a knockout. Not one that will make sleeping piece of cake, mind yous. I don't want whatever complaints if this keeps yous upwardly at nighttime. But it's a great i withal, paving a future for certain characters without needing a sequel to see their stories through. Yous already know what lies in wait for them, for ameliorate or worse.

And again, earlier I move on: I really must insist that all movies feature dueling rituals. I cannot stress plenty how compelling that scene is. Watch it and thank me subsequently.

"Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015)

Google Play, rated R, 121 minutes

Tom Hardy in "Mad Max: Fury Road."

Ryan, why are you lot putting a straight-upwardly activeness motion picture in Blench Weblog? Haven't you strayed from the theme plenty this twelvemonth? I mean, terminal week'south installment had two movies that barely qualified under whatsoever metric. Where's "The Haunting of Bly Manor?" Where'southward "Rebecca?" Where'southward the HORROR?!?

Good questions, Ryan. Commencement of all, shut upwards. 2d of all, my blog, my rules. Third of all, one of those might be coming next week. Fourth of all, "Mad Max: Fury Road" is the ultimate Halloween movie. Or it should be, anyway. Actually, we should be talking most the phenomenon that is this movie every day for the balance of time. But allow's focus on the Halloween of information technology all for at present. Is it set in the fall? Tough to tell when it's set in the apocalyptic Australian outback. A strike against information technology? Perhaps, but listen to my other points first:

• Put all of the characters in this picture show, big and small roles alike, into a hat. Pick one. Boom, that'southward your Halloween costume. A great choice. You seriously cannot go incorrect. Expect at this guy. Look at this person. LOOK AT THE DOOF WARRIOR. There has never been a cooler minor character in whatever film than the Doof Warrior, the leader of the State of war Boys' traveling boxing band who signals his army'due south arrival past admittedly shredding on an electric guitar (that shoots flames) while strapped to bungee cords on a big-donkey truck.
• Furiosa (Charlize Theron). That's it, that's the bullet betoken.
• The opening scene, where Max (Tom Hardy) tries to escape from the War Boys while being haunted by visions of his past failures, is incredibly scary, even more so because managing director George Miller, an actual insane person, fabricated the determination to speed up the footage to the point where the man centre tin canjust barelycomprehend what it is seeing. The consequence is an almost 3D-like issue, or similar you're at a haunted business firm with never-ending strobe lights. The get-go time I watched it, I wondered if my encephalon was breaking. Now I think it'south brilliant. There are other frightening things in this movie, such as the quick shot of the crow fishers in the swamp, but null beats the opening scene.
• For someone who doesn't go that much to exercise, Immortan Joe is an all-time not bad villain, mostly considering his name is Immortan Joe and he looks similar this. (Costumes!) Miller makes him terrifying through other people's reactions to him as much equally his own deportment. When he runs, he looks like an adult version of a "Ability Rangers" villain and information technology rules.

Charlize Theron in "Mad Max: Fury Road."

• Furiosa!
• Information technology is genuinely incredible to me that no died while making this moving-picture show. The entire movie, more or less, is a massive car chase involving fire and big rigs and off-route cars and leaping motorcycles and many, many pole stunts. Tom Hardy spends 45 or and then minutes literally strapped to the front end of a motorcar going 140 mph like the figurehead on the bow of a ship. If yous have a one-half hour, I highly recommend this backside-the-scenes look at the picture show and how it pulled off a lot of these stunts. It'south worth it to hear how genuine the terror in Hardy's vocalization is when talking about it all.
• At one point, a character says "Witness me, bloodbag," a seemingly breathless trio of words to anyone who has non watched the film, simply in actuality a powerful and emotional trio of words. That's what good movies do: create a world from scratch, teach you lot information technology's rules and culture and and then make you care about those things.
• A dude gets his confront ripped off, which is pretty ill.
• FURIOSA!!!!!!!
• "Fury Road" manages to simultaneously be a "women get revenge on their abusers and take control of their lives" movie and exist a "dudes stone" motion-picture show, which is an unheard of feat. Information technology should accept won Best Picture for that alone. (Thanks, "Spotlight," a motion-picture show only journalists call back exists now.)

I feel similar I take made my case for "Fury Route," the best action movie of at to the lowest degree the past 20 years if non longer. If, notwithstanding, you all the same take some complaints, delight feel gratuitous to email them to [e-mail protected].

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