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Marriage Story

This film was up for 6 nominations at the Oscars, 1 of which it won with Laura Dern as best supporting actress.

In my opinion, despite it being a relatively good film, it is extremely overrated.

Maybe it’s because it’s not my preferred genre of film but I felt it was slow, boring and not that special. For me, it just didn’t stand out above the other films nominated for this year’s Oscars.

Despite this, there were a few good points that I found within the film.

One of the things that I liked about the film was how it was filmed. It was like watching a documentary about a divorcing couple. It followed both of their lives as they negotiated through lawyers to get divorced and to gain custody over their son. It was very realistic in how it represented a breakdown of a marriage. It wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, it was your average day divorce. Not even the reason for divorce was anything new.

To help with this, there was barely any underlying music throughout the film which gave it more of a documentary feel.

I thought that the acting by both Adam Driver and Scarlett Johnson was really good. They both managed to get into the characters and make them believable. I think that both of them deserved their nominations.

I don’t think the film itself deserved the nominations as it was a basic story when it boils down to it. There was no plot twist and you knew how it was going end from the very get go. It was like an extended TV drama to me.

It just didn’t stand out to me when you look at the list of films nominated for the best film Oscar (which was won by Parasite) as for me it wasn’t unique or had something to say about today’s world unlike the rest.

To me, it just felt like yet another loveless drama in a genre which is swamped in them.

Rating- 5/10

Photo Credit- aftercredits.com

Why Loki is my favourite character of all time

There are many characters in the MCU all with their unique personalities, characterisation and backstory. But for me, the best character is that of Loki, the God of Mischief.

Loki is labelled as a villain within the Marvel Cinematic Universe and sure he does some things that can be perceived as villainous but in all honesty, I believe that he is a severely misunderstood character.

In the first Thor film, he finds out that he is actually not Asgardian but in fact a Frost Giant, the very creature that he was raised to fear and hate. This pits him against his ‘father’ and leads on to his actions against the Frost Giant and Asgard in the first Thor movie.

When he returns in Avengers Assemble, he has been sent on a mission to take over Earth as long as he retrieves the Tesseract for Thanos. He does do some evil acts here but this was because he had been tortured previous to the film and this is can be seen when he first arrives on Earth as he looks extremely sick and weak.

He fails in his mission and is taken back to Asgard for prison. Thor, however, needs his help and breaks him out of jail. This begins Loki’s slow but steady redemption arc back to the light. In Thor Ragnarok, he leaves the planet where he had finally found happiness and peace in order to help Thor again, something Loki would have never done back in Avengers Assemble.

His arc ultimately ends in him sacrificing himself in order to protect Thor again just after finally accepting that he is Thor’s brother, blood related or not. He is killed by Thanos after Loki attempts to kill him. This again shows his full arc as before, Loki served Thanos whereas at this point, Loki was prepared to kill Thanos to save Thor.

As you can imagine, I was devastated at his death.

However, in Endgame, Loki escaped with the Tesseract during the events of Avengers Assemble thus creating an alternative timeline prior to his redemption. This will be extremely interesting to see how his character develops for a second time round.

All Loki wanted was to be accepted and have a proper loving family and he finally found that within Thor who despite all of Loki’s faults, still loved him for who he was. I dont think Loki would have done everything that he had done if he had been treated so much better throughout his life rather than being lied to and treated as second best.

I don’t think anyone else than Tom Hiddleston could play Loki to the same level that he does as he mages to play bot Loki’s good and bad sides to perfection.

The new Loki series in Spring next year and I for one can’t wait to see how this expands both Loki’s character and the MCU itself.

Photo Credit: The Daily Dot

Harley Quinn: Birds Of Prey

Reports have been suggesting that Birds of Prey has been flopping big time at the box-office. And I don’t understand for the life of me why that is. Well I have a few ideas.

First of all, I must say how much I enjoyed the film. I saw it on Wednesday, and it was such a fresh and fun film. It is the gemstone amongst DC’s mess of a cinematic universe.

I love the character of Harley Quinn. I’ve only seen her in the two DCEU films, but I love Margot Robbie’s take on her. She makes her a believable villain with a good backstory and it shows that girls can be just as villainous as boys as Harley is the girl equivalent to the Joker only more human like as we actually know her backstory and her name. I’m not including the 2019 film Joker here as it’s not DCEU.

In this film I felt like Margot Robbie gave an amazing performance as Harley who has just broken up with the Joker and is now on her own. She crosses paths with Crime Lord, Roman Sionis aka Black Mask (played brilliantly by Ewan McGregor) who enlists her to find a diamond for him. The rest of the Birds of Prey group are all linked to the diamond in different ways and they all end up as a group against Sionis.

Despite the plot being simple with no major plot twists, I felt like this film was fun and refreshingly fun film. It felt like it carried the aesthetic of Harley Quinn with the bubble-gum colours and the funky soundtrack fits it really well. It’s the chacters that carry the film and that’s what superhero films are usually about.

I think that this film has been flopping because it is directed by a woman and has a female led cast with a love intertest and many people just rent ready for a film where a girl has to fall in love with someone.

I recommend that you go se this film even if you’re not a DC fan. Personally, I’m not a big fan of DC bit I thoroughly enjoyed this film and it both fixed and added to Harley Quinn’s character.

Rating – 9/10

Photo Credit – vitalthrills.com

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