Colonizers

In the tragic hilarious and eminently watchable movie Mickey 17 the invasion of a planet and the attack on the superintelligent native species (dismissively labelled "critters") is best exemplified by the capture of a baby critter by the humans. The curiosity for interspecies understanding is limited to, well, cutting off the tail of the said critter, putting it in a blender, and then saying "what sauce does this best go with?"

Irreverent, wildly unpredictable, and in the end hopefully, Mickey 17 is an original movie that traverses sci fi, humour, dystopia - and holds well

16/20

Looper

 A random Youtube video profiling bizarre mind-bending movies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K0d0BTRJ9M&t=595s) brought me to The Triangle (2009) – which in turn I watched on an “unconventional” URL (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9iu0zq). Clearly the OTT masters of the universe consider us intellectually incapable of processing such fare. In the story of Sisyphus, the protagonist pushes a boulder up a hill in an endless temporal loop. In The Triangle, Jessie (Melissa George), mother of an autistic child, goes on a boat trip in the Bermuda Triangle with her friends. Their boat hits the doldrums, and the deserted ship Aeolus is where they take refuge. Soon after coming on board a sinister sequence of events ensues – things are not what they seem at all – and friends are injured and dying, and Jess and the castaways are heavily looping in time. A mindbender that is likely to stay in the mind for a while in a sea of cinematic monotony

16/20

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