what i watched in march
'What happened to 'but I have not a single bone in my body that would ever remember to come back to this'? Okay, fuck you. I got bored and did not feel like waiting for may to end to write about that, so here we are talking about what i watched in march.
In march I watched a bunch of tv shows, some of them only a season, some fully. I watched The office season 4,5 and 6, which I think are their strongest seasons, especially 4 and 5 (I am currently almost done with season 7). I am literally Pam Beesly, but to not go off track here, we continue. The last of us was absolutely great. I love what they did with the source material, and I was in no way disappointed. I'd finished watching gameplay a little before as the series coming out was a good excuse to finally do so. Bella Ramsey gave the performance of a lifetime, Pedro Pascal was great as usual, I love them both dearly. I can not wait for season 2!!
Then I watched Ares. Which was certainly a show! Their concept was cool, a student association in Amsterdam which (surprise surprise) turns out to be kind of culty!! My student association is not like that I swear. The end result was a little tacky, but that is not unexpected for a dutch show. Their use of the song 'Zing, vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder' did get to me, simply because it is a great song and very well combined with a weird cult aesthetic. I'm not sure if they got their point across very well, as I am sure it was a critique on the dutch golden age, but I thought it was done fairly lazily. They just kind of threw it at you during the last 5 minutes, after only talking about it for a short moment in the first episode, so I feel like if they'd tried to showcase it more throughout the rest of the episodes it would have worked better. If they happen to make a season 2 I would probably watch it but in a 'no strings attached' kind of way, just to not be even more disappointed.
Last show I watched was the second season of white lotus. I think white lotus is great. I was sad at the end. I care loads about the receptionist. It had Aubrey Plaza. Even better, it had Jennifer Coolidge. Nothing more to add besides you should probably watch it too, it's a really fun time.
Movie-wise, what do you expect from me besides watching many many movies. I started the month watching monty python and the holy grail. Monty python is just always a fun time. It is impressive how the humor still holds up so incredibly well, even after 50 years. The 'she's a witch!' scene, the bridge, the animals being thrown over the wall, and lots and lots more that I giggled out loud over. It is good to know that I still have a bunch of monty pythons to go.
On march 7th (whaaat like the star rail character?) I watched nacho libre. It was average. Jack black did his best. That's it. It did not really leave much of an impression on me as I can not really recall anything happening that would be worth mentioning here, so on to the next.
March 8th I watched 2 things, the first being Harriet, which has it's flaws, but is an interesting movie. I believe the story they depict is for the most part accurate, which is for some reason always doubtful with historical movies based on real people. The soundtrack was pretty good, especially the song used for credits. The other thing I watched was a short documentary called 'Mijn seks is stuk' which is a dutch project by Lize Korpershoek about her sexual identity, or rather the lack thereof, that I am very fond of. I rewatch it every once in a while on youtube, and it has never failed to comfort me in my own being. It is not qualitatively mindblowing, but I think it is worth checking out as it is only 30 minutes long (it also has english subtitles!!).
On the 14th of march I took my friend to our first film festival which was held in Maastricht. We spent the day watching a bunch of short movies, of which I can not even tell you all the titles simply because I forgot a few, but the ones I do know the titles of are the following. A bunch of these can be found on youtube, if you are interested.
Neighbour Abdi was the first one we went to see in the morning. This one follows Abdi, a furniture designer who spend his childhood in Somalia before coming to the Netherlands. The effects were amazing and playful, seeing as Abdi and his colleagues/friends and director Douwe Dijkstra worked on it from their own studio. Abdi talks about his life during war in Somalia and how it has affected him, using imagery they created themselves. This is done in a light-hearted, yet serious manner. It is certainly worth out checking.
The second project we saw was Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, a documentary on plane hijackings that they said 'eerily foreshadowed 9/11' which was a big overexaggeration. The documentary was interesting, though it was missing a thread throughout the film. It used old news broadcasts to create a collage of distressing imagery and near-kitchy horrors (images of bloodied floors to the sound of the hustle, probably the least fitting song ever created to show the aftermath of tragedy to, but somehow it worked. I do think I'd be pissed of if I'd been killed in a terrorist attack and people put the hustle over it.) Though they tried, certainly not a documentary where I would say I learned a lot, but it intrigued me. Maybe it was intended to be more artsy than informative, I would not be surprised. My favorite moment was the kid who just did not really give a fuck about his plane being hijacked and who actually thought it was kind of chill.Once that was over with we got to watch A demonstration, which I think was the longest feeling short I have ever seen in my life. DAMN!! It was extremely experimental, showcasing monsters when there are none. I did not really understand it and I got very bored watching it. But I respect them for trying. I think it gaslit me into thinking it must be good, but I just did not get it. Good atmosphere, I will admit.
After that it was time for Precautionary Measure, which was so so so weird, but in a fun art kind of way. Not the best, but you could tell they had fun making it. It speaks on topics like grief and fear, and all I could say at the end was 'what?' and 'I'm not sure what that meant, but I had fun watching it.'
Then we got to see Deployments, which was so ass that all I will tell you is that it is just a computer generated demonstration over and over again and some imagery of military men sitting on chairs. Idk. It was boring as hell. This is the last one I saw that I know the title of.
The day after the film festival I finally got around to watching cocaine bear. I am not sure what I was expecting besides a bear on coke, but it was a bear on coke. The humor was not my kind of thing, the storyline was a little awful, but at least the bear was a girl. Okayyyy!
March 16th I watched the documentary Into the deep: The submarine murder case, which left me feeling very uneasy. The case being talked about being fairly recent (2016), and the fact the footage was recorded during the disappearance of Kim Wall made it an uncomfortable watch, which I do think all crime documentaries should be. The project starts out as a documentary on Peter Madsen's work, but as the story evolves and you learn about what he did to Kim (the footage being recorded during the period before she went missing after leaving with Peter on a submarine, until when Peter was arrested), everything he says becomes purely revolting.
On march 17th I watched Money shot: the pornhub story, which I was hoping would be a good critique on pornhub and the porn industry as a whole, but it ended up being more defending of them. Talking about, yet ignoring the harm it has caused rubbed me the wrong way. It has no soul, no morality (basically going 'sure there is exploitation and child porn on the site, but it brings in money, so we don't really care', no arguments being made for any point of view, and I hated it.
Everything everywhere all at once rewatch on march 22nd. The first time I saw it in theater. Best movie ever. Creative storytelling, original effects, intriguing family dynamic, well balanced emotional baggage, finding meaning in life (the good and the bad, yin and yang, nothing matters vs nothing matters), ratatouille rip-off, mitski on soundtrack. I cried many many times. 3rd or 4th watched but it remains the absolute best. To me perfect in every single way. I think about it all the time. Waymond Wang is the kindest character ever created and I absolutely adore how he did not have to change at any point in the movie to become 'stronger', but instead remained true to himself by refusing to fight and being loving instead. PEAK!
The last movie I saw that month was Avatar: the way of water, on the 30th. I was a little scared because I have a fear of a whole bunch of things water and underwater creature related, but I was fine for the most part. Basically the entire movie except for this huge ass fish coming to kill a character. Not a lot to say about this one. It looked great, the story was good. Not the kind of movie you think about a lot after seeing it, but highly enjoyable.
That's all. Goodbye. ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅˙ॱᐧ.˳˳.⋅ઇଓ