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Thanks to Netflix for giving the Alex Garland room for this masterfully produced sermon. The Oxford atheist turned Christian; C.S.Lewis learned from St. Augustine and him from The old book, that all is created good, but evil is a perversion or a distortion of the true image in which all is created. So evil is lack of true good as in misuse, lie, unfaithfulness - all these vices are destructive since they are lesser foods for the true food that all souls hunger for (turning into idols). This great movie is a classic pilgrimage to the lighthouse (I am the light of the world) by 5 women turned in some way by their choices or by loss into less than they where memt to be. The story in this fine biblical narrative is An Uncreation taking place, since evil is a parasite on being and hence must dissolve it self in the end into a mere shadow (like the result of a phosphorus explosive) - but ONE drop of blood (Calvary) may restore all and shame and sin will be washed away. What comes of that NEW CREATION The part takers won't even know. This is 17th century Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" in great new setting. Bless Your heart guys for making this.

this is a very bad made movie on all levels. I know that Cruise can act, but the craftmanship of this piece of work is nonexcisting, so Cruise is left in bad lighting, fellowacting, cutting, camera-work and storytelling. This director, Zwick is either tired or have previously been guided by ghost-directors and he must know someone in the industry, since this gets to cinema in Denmark, while great stuff never sees the light of day. This is at the highest a late night cableflick - not even TV, because they are ages ahead of this clonking, rattling boheamoth. It is homemovie buffed up, and I seriously have to go back to horror movies straight-to-VHS in the 80ies to find its kin. the positive reviews here on IMDb must be related somehow to the hundreds of people, who made this oldschool TV detergent commercial.

This series developed from the masterfully gloomy movie of the same title puts Italian production up close and center. This is very well crafted, with a impressive camera precision even though it's within the Gritty-style of modern cinema. Here and there you'll see some very inventive camera directing (a motorcycle-crash comes close to the best vehicle-scene I have seen since the first "Mad Max"). It is a rough and gray view of mob-crime in a dystopia Italy, but even though the setting is the same ghetto as the movie "Gomorra" the social-realism of the movie is toned down by the producers, in order for a more character-driven narrative to emerge - that is good. This is a brilliant authentic-Italian and promising series, that recalls Sergio Leones "Once upon a time in America" just without wide angel and widescreen. And again it contains some of the technically best non-computer generated action-sequences I have seen since Michael Mann. BRAVO! Forza Italia! from Denmark.