All Forms of Art

As you already know, if you follow my blog, I’m not the biggest fan of romantic comedies. I find them tiring, and to me, all of them look the same. Yet, one of these days, I just wanted to laugh a bit and have a good time, so I risked this Netflix comedy. I didn’t regret it. I had a lot of fun watching it. How to go around clichés? The characters are interesting, and the story makes you smile from the very beginning. It’s very simple and very cliché - two people trying to set up two other people. Yet, at the same time… They aren’t trying to help them. They don’t even care if they make a good couple. They just want a break!  The terrible workaholic bosses need to be “entertained”, so their exhausted assistants can breathe for a minute. So, how about to entertain them… with each other? Falling apart until the happy ending Obviously, this couldn’t go well, and that’s the biggest part of the fun. This movie shows us that we still can laugh with the familiar formula of romantic comedie...

Luna Nera (Black Moon) is a story about witch-hunting, this time, with real witches - stregas - in 17th century Italy. Full of teenage characters, love seems to be one of the main ingredients of the plot. Love secrets, forbidden loves, an environment of romance clashes with the brutal treatment of the women accused of witchcraft. Ade, the protagonist, is a young woman in the discovery of herself, scared and full of uncertainties. Yet, she bravely accepts her mission, fighting against her anguishes and indecisions.  The Benandanti The witches' main enemy is a group of masked men that hunts them with no mercy. Their looks are already terrifying, even before they do anything. But, at the end of the day: what's their motivation? What beliefs lead them to that cruelty? Yes, that particular group of women they're hunting was of real witches. Yet, if you take a close look at the benandanti criteria… almost any single woman could fit them. In this group, we have two interesting ...

For those who follow this blog, you know I was a bit disappointed with this show since season 2 . They wanted to make a tale about everything wrong that could happen to a group of teenagers, disguised as an unbreakable friendship pact. Tiring.  In fact, if you think about it, the show started as a teen drama, went to a crime show, and ended up as a slightly ridiculous psychological thriller. Throughout the show, one question remains: is Liberty High the worst high school of human history? (Contains Spoilers)  The Last Season The production finally announced that this one would be the last season of the show. It has been a while now since the show stopped being about Hanna Baker.  She is now a distant memory, even though they try, from time to time, to maintain the connection with her story. The main ingredient of the show is crime and a guilty conscience.  At the beginning of this last season, the students are at a funeral. Again. We just don't know whose. Did they l...