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(movie) Peckinpah Suite(2019) – jedan od najdražih redatelja i njegova priča kroz prizmu kćeri!

Lupita Peckinpah je kći slavnog legendarnog redatelja Sama Peckinpaha (Divlja horda, Željezni križ, Pat Garrett i Billy The Kid, Psi od slame, Pucnjevi popodne, Bijeg…), redatelja koji se smatra djedom akcijskog žanra koji je utabao put mnogim kasnijim filmovima svojim jako nasilnim vesternima, trilerima i ratnim filmom. No, ovo je dokumentarac koji govori o kćerci Sama Peckinpaha, Lupiti Peckinpah, koja dolazi u grad Livingstone u Montani kako bi posjetila hotelski apartman u kojem je njen otac živio dugi niz godina otkako je odselio iz Hollywooda. U Montanu ga je privukla prekrasna divljina i priroda, temperature koje zimi idu i do -30 stupnjeva, duge šetnje po planinama, lov i ribolov te je kupio i brvnaru u kojoj je znao boraviti. Lupita prolazi putem sjećanja i usput gledamo biografski dokumentarac o njenom ocu i saznajemo zanimljive činjenice o njegovoj gadnoj naravi hehe, tučama u pijanom stanju, pucanju, paranoji, ali i upoznajemo Peckinpaha kao brižnog oca koji je jako volio svoju kćer. Meni je ovaj film bio strahovito zanimljiv i zabavan, jer nisam znao ama baš skoro ništa o Peckinpahovom životu, a gledao sam skoro sve njegove filmove i obožavam njegov opus, pogotovo Divlju hordu i Željezni križ, filmove koji mi spadaju u top deset ili dvadeset filmova svih vremena. Ovo je super doku, pa odvojite malo vremena ako želite pogledati.

8,5/10

(movie) Un Lugar Llamado Dignidad(2021) is a disturbing and touching movie that makes you angry!

You might ask yourself why it leaves you angry after you have seen this one? Angry at god! Angry at world that such places exist and humanity is the biggest devil that exists, not christian version of devil, not Satanic version of devil, but only us, humans are capable of unspeakable acts and evil. This is at the same time fascinating and scary! This movie is about a 12 year old boy Pablo in Chile, in the last days of Pinochet’s dictatorship, who is moved to Colonia Dignidad, so called German miracle in remote forest part of Chile. It is a colony led by German called Pius(excellent Hanns Zischler) who is in the beginning mild and benign but strange things begin to happen. People being punished in most bizarre and strange ways, insane orders and lifestyle, all in the name of god. Pablo realizes it is time to escape if he wants to stay alive and sane…

Now, this movie made me at many times scream in myself, stop it, do not do it, I will avenge these kids, you filthy insane German fuckers, stop it. From pedophilia, rape, killings in the name and with blessing of Chilean dictatorship, that all happened in real file in German mysterious religious colony Colonia Dignidad and it is not a work of fiction, although a part of this movie is fictionalized in some characters and some names. The greatest insanity about it all, when democracy came to Chile, those people changed the name of the colony and continued their work and insanity there until the death of Pius. This movie is one of those that make you think about how humanity is the real evil and what it can do. Go see this one. It will make you think.

8,5/10

(movie) The Pale Blue Eye (2022) – good darkened gothic thriller!

When I watched trailers and announcements for this one, I knew this must be a good movie and I was not wrong. Christian Bale leads great actors line-up in this darkened gothic thriller. Bale plays world weary detective Augustus Landor, who is summoned by the army in West Point to investigate the series of gruesome murders. There he finds help of young cadet Edgar Allan Poe(superb Harry Melling – Dudley from Harry Potter serial) who helps him discover dark secrets and uncover the sad and grisly truth about witch hunters, rituals, talk with the dead and the ugly and sad twist at the end of the movie. Besides above mentioned, I must also highlight Gillian Anderson (agent Scully from X-Files) in eerie role of disturbed woman and also Robert Duvall as expert in occult professor Pepe. I don’t know, although this is over two hours long movie, it is not boring for one second and made in nightly darkened tone of gothic like secrets, atmosphere and mood are depressing and sad, from main character to the story itself. Movie is directed by Scott Cooper, known as director of Hostiles, Out Of The Furnace which also featured Christian Bale. Cooper is a co-writer with Louis Bayard and the script is dynamic and well crafted. Murders are grisly and gory, but done in a nice way, so if you are not into gore scenes, do not worry, you will see none of these explicitly in this movie. So, in the end, nice one, but not top of the pops.

7,5/10