Here – The Most Beautiful Years of Our Lives – "Time Flies"

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?

A camera is placed in a unique location where the joys and tragedies of life unfold.

The scenes are extremely fleeting, preventing any process of empathy and attachment to the characters and thematic development, except for the brevity of passing time. The constraint of an exclusive unity of place leads to highly improbable yet rare scenes, such as weddings, childbirth, or funerals. Additionally, it is very challenging to follow the storyline, as one gets lost among the various eras, and the back-and-forth time jumps are excessively laborious. Nevertheless, beyond its ingenious concept, the direction is remarkable, featuring fragmented screens, and the principle is pushed to the limit as we catch glimpses of marshy landscapes from prehistory and Native Americans. In short, a fundamentally original and touching stylistic exercise, but one lacking narrative generosity.

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Hundreds of Beavers – "No man ever was glorious who was not laborious"

No man ever was glorious who was not laborious

An apprentice trapper faces hundreds of beavers.

I have mostly seen glowing reviews praising this film as a pronounced homage to slapstick cinema, yet all I found were absurdly stupid antics performed grotesquely by people in animal costumes. While I adore quirky films, this was too absurd, even for me. Nevertheless, I laughed heartily at such outrageous foolishness, especially during the intentionally exaggerated violent scenes. In short, a success that greatly worries me about the intellectual quotient of the audience.

Harold and the Magic Crayon – "You’re just a drawing escaped from the children’s book aisle, with no narrator to guide you"

Do you know what gave you life? The most mysterious, powerful, extraordinary thing on Earth: pure imagination.

Harold is a fictional character, accompanied by his purple crayon that can materialize anything, and he finds himself in the real world.

The film is brimming with candor and childlike poetry. The secondary characters, the elk and the porcupine, who undergo a radical anthropomorphization, are fantastically amusing, while the hero is delightfully naive. However, the plot is highly simplistic, though it remains a film aimed at children, so nothing elaborate is expected. In short, an enlightening and whimsical work all at once.

I am a porcupine, I have never done anything.