This was good. A pretty accurate cast of customers and staff in a high-end restaurant. With an end that every staff member has at one time or another fantasized about.
More and more films on this as of late, genre films like "Triangle of Sadness" and "Parasite" that talk about the overthrow of the clueless patrons and elite who quite literally feed upon the misery of their servants.
Ralph Fiennes plays an excellent chef, the power dynamic is spot on, it's clear they Paid a Writer. This is pretty rare these days, you have to applaud them.
I mean, I worked here, not even a year ago...
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Good News! There won't be one...
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a42383449/1899-season-2/?utm_source=digg
But I'm still puzzled how they made a season 1.
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Now this, off to an amazing start - and then, somewhere about 2/3 of the way through, falls apart.
To be sure, the first hour is worth the price of admission alone. The trailer does not lie, it's an orgy of every conceivable decadence, a tour-de-force of camera shots, choreography, it's got it all. And then as the character development kicks in it slows down. A lot. And then more so.
Margot Robbie is amazing. Brad Pitt is good. Diego Calvo is great as Manny Torres, but - his role suffers development. Jovan Adepo keeps the music going and provides a glimpse of depth and integrity.
And the end - the end, it's a Hollywood wank-fest to all the joy that the movies have brought people - really, truly, unnecessary.
So - a great film - to a point, but an hour - or more - should have been left on the cutting room floor. What it wanted in this is a good bit of editing.
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This, for a Netflix movie, was well done. The dialogue, the background ambience (watch with CC to catch it all - although, probably you won't...it may need a revisit) - snappy, sharp, incisive. This is what you get when you pay a writer. And a competent director. The difference - not quite a great movie, but so far head and shoulders above the rest it deserves mention.
And - while set in 1984, is ever more relevant today. The themes of "keep-em-distracted" and "life happens to those who don't pay attention" and the brainwashing of the populace by consumer-culture, mass media, and the - both obviousness and irrelevance of it all - well -
These themes have been resonating for a while.
Well done, and I have to admire Adam Driver for his commitment to rather less commercially spectacular films (think Annette) that make him someone worth watching. I look for the director first - but - on occasion the actors will compel me. He's one.
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