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Swiss Army Man (2016)

26/12/2016 · by Joy

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I watched Swiss Army Man a couple weeks ago and I fell in love. Like, super in love. I went into this film with obviously low expectations because how good can a movie about a guy bonding with a corpse actually be? But man, was I blown away… There were flaws, as with any directorial debut, but they were so minimal compared to what I was taken with.

The plot of the movie sounds ridiculous and stupid and everyone I’ve talked about it with has been like, “I am 100% not going to watch a movie about a flatulent corpse and a crazed, lonely, lost little man,” but it’s so good. I want to watch it again and again. Sure, it could have used less fart jokes and the plot is beyond ridiculous and unbelievable, but it’s so heartwarming and so funny that I just can’t. I can’t even.

It is the most bizarre work of art that I have ever even took a notion to think about watching. It is insane and wieird. Paul Dano is amazing, Daniel Radcliffe is amazing, and they are amazing together. Watching Daniel Radcliffe play a dead man who is practically a foreign life-form in that he knows nothing about anything ever. The questions are like those you hear on a daily basis from a toddler, but they delve deeper and deeper into existential discussions. It’s.. the silliest thing that I got attached emotionally to a corpse. I was endeared by him and his child-like wonder.

The movie is titled Swiss Army Man because Daniel Radcliffe’s character, dubbed Manny by Paul Dano’s character, Hank, is literally a swiss army man. He is a multi-purpose tool good for starting fires, shooting things in the air, using as a speedboat of sorts… he’s a fountain, a compass… he’s everything someone “stranded” on an island could want or need.

And don’t even get me started on the beautiful score which I have since added to my Google Play library. It’s gorgeous and whimsical and I fricken love it.

Give Swiss Army Man a chance… like, a real… good chance. I bought it before I even watched it and I am so glad I did because I can’t wait to rewatch it.

Emelie (2015)

11/09/2016 · by Joy

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Emelie is the movie that encompasses every parent’s nightmare when hiring a babysitter that you don’t reaaaally know all that well. It’s directed by Michael Thelin, who, as far as I can tell, hasn’t directed any movies before now. It stars a bunch of “unrecognizables”, which is one of my favourite things when watching a horror movie. When there’s a recognizable actor, you can’t help but be taken out of the movie just a tad.

Sarah Bolger plays Emelie, a girl fronting as “Anna”, a couple’s go-to babysitter’s best friend. At the very beginning of the film, you learn that “Anna” is not who she says she is as we watch the real Anna, a character we haven’t met – at all, get thrown into a mysterious black car. The new “Anna” shows up at the house, sweet as pie and the parents detect nothing amiss and head out on their much-anticipated date. Before the parents leave, in some pretty obvious foreshadowing, we learn that the children are not allowed to have cell phones until they’re 13. After the parents leave, the kids are put through the ringer… they have to watch the youngest (and only) daughter’s pet hamster get eaten by the oldest son’s snake, they are forced to watch their dad’s amateur sex tape with a woman who is not his wife(?), and then they listen to a bedtime story about a girl who neglectfully kills her infant child and now needs to find a new one, referring to the new child she is on the hunt for as her “Cubby.” Creepy. Very creepy.

Eventually, we learn that this operation is clearly bigger than Emelie alone when the parents get t-boned by an oncoming car on their way home from their date. As Emelie and her mysterious suited man’s death toll rises, the three children are fighting for their lives and Jacob, the oldest, is fighting to keep his younger brother from being kidnapped.

In a disturbing twist of events (to the parents, since we already know this), they are driven home by a cop, but on the drive back the cop gets a radio call letting him know he needs to head back to the crime scene as OH MY GOD, a body was found in the trunk of the car – the body of Anna Coleman.

This movie was tense, I’ll give it that, albeit a little farfetched. If I had children, it would probably make me think twice about who I’m leaving my children with. But come on, if I knew who the girl was, I’d have looked her up on Facebook to confirm her identity before leaving my children with them at the veeeery least!

Overall, a decent thriller (with surprisingly okay child actors) that I probably wouldn’t venture to watch again, at least for a long while!

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