I've been dodging half-assed Hollywood movies all year now and have gotten to the point where I must Google a movie first to check the reviews in order to avoid spending nearly 2 HRS in a theater with a badly written movie that believes it's objective is to LECTURE ME about morality. That's wokeness in a nutshell and why it's repulsive. And here's the kicker: a woke film is not just a movie who's values I disagree with; it can be a movie that shares my own values BUT tries to hammer them into my head with a sledgehammer in every damn scene of the film. Nothing can save a woke film because at it's heart it's a bad idea to let a few ideas command the attention of an entire script.
1. 'BACKROOMS' - This is a quietly brilliant 'little' film who's terror grows on you rapidly after the first act. The set-up involves a desperate business owner who discovers that his customer-barren furniture store is actually a PORTAL INTO A DEPTH PSYCHO-MANIFESTATED REALITY of his own (and other's) making. Be prepared for some of the strangest, bizarre and seat-gripping scenery you've ever seen in a modern horror movie. It's psychological horror filmmaking at it's finest that invokes the 'villain' of the classic science fiction film, 'Forbidden Planet'. If you recall the villain of that movie was the manifestation of an entire species' psychological 'ID' (the primal, unconscious mind -a psychologically dangerous thing if UNLEASHED). This film's antagonist plays along that line but in a more subtle fashion.
2. 'OBSESSION' - To call this film a 'trip' is to undersell it tremendously. It's yet another example of a low budget movie that either forces it's creators to focus on what actually matters in storytelling in general (interesting characters) or try to win you over with half-assed attempts at making you THINK it has a big budget to work with (shoddy special effects become the soul of the film PLUS C-level old actors star in it).
If you think about it ANY STORY can be engrossing if the CHARACTERS are as interesting or even more interesting than the shit that's happening to them (the plot). 'Obsession' really displays that by taking the ordinary awkward single guy and turning his journey into masculinity one hell of a ride (SPOILER: he NEVER reaches masculinity because too much shit -like DEMONS -get into his way).
The plot of 'Obsession' is simple: Our hero craves a girl that appears to be oblivious to his love of her. But his fortune appears to change when he buys a magical toy that promises all his dreams can come true. The toy doesn't lie but it also never told him HOW those dreams would come true. As they say, the devil is in the details and in this story that saying comes true... LITERALLY.
3. 'EVIL DEAD BURN' - This film rocks from beginning to end. It's packed full of evil in the form of obnoxious characters and even more wretched villains from Hell itself -all of it acted or CGI'd to sweet perfection! The plot is simple enough: the grandson of a demon hunter and his brother's ex wife find themselves embroiled in a life or death or Hell On Earth Battle for ownership of a powerful object (of course). But after a while you won't give a damn about what that object is... you'll just be grateful YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THE HEROES IN THIS MOVIE!!! He, she and they get the shit kicked out them sideways.
Yep, it's that damn fantastic. The fight sequences are exquisitely crafted, merging both camera angle and character reactions in utterly incredibly sequences of violence like a Master Chef putting together a meal for the President of the USA. Nothing is left to chance or accident here and you can almost see the director making sure the storyboards in pre-production were an exact replica of a film he already impossibly shot -as if he were working BACKWARDS the whole time!
There is so much going on right in this movie that I'm not going to bother with anything that may be done wrong in it. Suffice to say that any such data is probably subliminal due to the fact that the power of the filmmakers actually overwhelms your critical thinking to the point of making admiration an actual conducive factor to the visual storytelling -in other words, the synchronization of all elements of the film turn it into a learning experience, not mere entertainment. Watch this film and learn how the Art of Filmmaking is done!
All three of these films bypass the annoying 'woke' (Left-leaning politics) nonsense of modern Hollywood. If you don't think wokeness is real or disagree with the idea that it interferes with visual storytelling then you need to consider this hypothetical scene:
Imagine a science fiction movie where the a group of astronauts stranded in a gigantic space station are cut off from Earth and preparing for an alien attack consisting of beings who turn their prisoners of war into decidedly feminized drones that obey them forever! The hero of this movie is an overtly RIGHT-WING cowboy (has the hat too!) and spouts out ancient CHRISTIAN ideas and believes in the strict interpretation of the governing principles of the long lost civilization known as The USA. The crew of this space station are a mixture of people. But many of them are fierce individuals who believe everyone must carry his own weight / is responsible for his or her ultimate survival when the shit really hits the fan. They argue and battle some of the people who attempt to teach them that they must all come together to defeat the enemy. But this is to no avail and during the attack on the space station the hero of the film is the only one to escape and rockets off it in a hastily repaired single occupant escape pod. As he flies away he yells to the aliens, "You'll never take my manhood from me! NEVER!!
Now, during the beginning of this film or it's middle most people will realize that this movie has a POLITICAL MESSAGE because it mirrors the politics of current Western Civilization too extremely to be just a coincidence. Now imagine this movie isn't the ONLY ONE YOU'VE SEEN THIS YEAR DOING THIS.
You're gonna leave the theater believing that the movie is Right-Wing aware or 'WOKE' and you are being LECTURED TO. The movie has crossed the 'DO NOT CROSS LINE' of visual storytelling and that means the destruction of the SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF. The 'Suspension of Disbelief' is that point in the movie where you actually forget you are watching a film and your critical thinking subsides. This can be momentary or last for 2 fucking hours (in a really good / entertaining movie! Think 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' or any Hollywood classic).
Wokeness DESTROYS the Suspension of Disbelief INSTANTLY and guarantees box office failure faster than the media can persuade you otherwise. No one gives a shit about your values when they plop down money to be ENTERTAINED, not lectured to. And here's the kicker: even people who share your political values don't want to plop down big bucks to be LECTURED TO AGAIN. This is why decidedly Leftist films do not succeed tremendously with Left-leaning people either. At some point they cease to be movies and become only PROPAGANDA pieces.
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