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I have been a fan and collector of MM since 1993 and I am somewhat involved in the fandom of the most beautiful in the world, I follow several fan accounts, including the official account and one of a very thick and average collector who was all calling for a boycott , it is not a big deal if it is defined on what we are going to base ourselves to make the criticism.

Namely, if we look at it as a cinematographic event, that is, we see beyond whether or not we like how it was represented, we pay attention to technical aspects, we enjoy seeing recreations copied from photos and moments, we do not lose sight of the fact that it is not only a recreation (more or less free) of a book, but that book is a fiction and not a biography and finally we know that it is a recreation of a fiction and not a biopic... so it is a good movie that we enjoy sitting in the armchair at home (although I personally would have gone to see it in the cinema without hesitation).

Now if we are going to see it with the intention of finding a linear movie, with a beginning, middle and end that shows us the life of MM as if it were a biopic, without a doubt we are going to face the wall because it is far from that. To make matters worse, it is closer to being an experimental film than a commercial film and there I give the right to director Andrew Dominik (CHOPPER, KILLING THEM SOFTLY, 2 episodes of the 2nd of MINDHUNTER), who said that it was a film like an "avalanche of images and events.

Basically the film is like when you dream, everything mixed and confused, with dreamlike and impossible images, we don't dream a plot with feet and head, or are they going to say yes? Good that's how they decided to do it, who are we to say it's wrong? No one.

There are very good moments cinematographically speaking, the recreations are down to earth, superlative photography and by far the best of the film is Ana de Armas, who in my opinion does an excellent job, consecrating and at least deserving of an Oscar nomination, more so when Michelle Williams was nominated for the same character in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, also very successful, but the Cuban is better.

Those who criticized her even for her accent already in the trailer that they rub her, she is not only beautiful (in my opinion) but also characterized as the only and best, doubly beautiful. She does a job with feeling and sensitivity, all the others rotate like a set around her, as if they were the solar system around the sun. She is everything in this film, a hypnotic performance (like the incidental music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis) any way you look at it.

HBO documentary about the famous case of the two 12-year-old girls who tried to murder a friend, as a tribute to the character from the Creepypastas in 2009.

On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser lured their friend Payton Leutner into a forest and stabbed her 19 times in an attempt to take over the fictional character Slender Man. Leutner survived and recovered. After six days hospitalized. Weier and Geyser were found not guilty for mental illness, being interned in mental health institutions with sentences of 25 and 40 years, respectively.

The documentary emphasizes the testimonies of the parents of the victimizers, but the most interesting are the images of the interrogations hours after the attack and in them you can see how convinced they were of the existence of the terrifying being and that what they did was something necessary.

The bad thing about the document is that it is from 2016 and it was released in 2017, so there is only the hearing in which a judge decided that they should be tried as adults and not as minors (remember that they were 12 years old at the time of the event ), so there is no trial that sentenced Weier to 25 years (she was paroled on September 21) the ideologue of the fact and Geyser to 40 years, after diagnosing her as schizophrenic, since she was the one who stabbed her friend.

A high school girls soccer team is flying to Nationals but crashes in the middle of a wooded area. 25 years later, the survivors return to remember the dark secrets that they thought were well kept.

The adult cast is monopolized by the 90s universe: Melanie Lynskey (HEAVENLY CREATURES, TWO AND HALF MEN), Christina Ricci (ADDAMS FAMILY, CASPER, SLEEPY HOLLOW) and Juliette Lewis (CAPE FEAR, NATURAL BORN KILLERS) who are joined by Tawny Cypress (HEROES, THE BLACKLIST), they play the survivors who 25 years after coming back to relive their secrets, because nobody has a clean ass here.

What is clear is that something happened there, somehow they survived more than a year and a half in the middle of impregnable forests and with little it is assumed that they sent the great VIVEN but in a slightly more sectarian way.

The series alternates two temporalities: 1996, the year of the accident and with the characters in their adolescence in high school, and 2021, when the anniversary of the tragedy is celebrated and mysterious postcards that reach everyone and an alleged suicide bring them the dark memories that they believed buried by a pact of silence and the years.

The young cast includes Ella Purnell (ARMY OF THE DEAD, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children), Sophie Nélisse (THE BOOK THIEF), Sophie Thatcher (THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT, PROSPECT), Jasmin Savoy Brown (SCREAM 2022, THE LEFTOVERS) and Liv Hewson (SANTA CLARITA DIET) among the best known.

The combination of survival + mystery + horror + sense of humor + good characters, with ingredients with some LOST, some LORD OF THE FLIES, some ALIVE! And the student-oriented adolescent narrative, but with a touch of gore, led Stephen King to award it as the best series of the year.

Far but sooo far the best is Ricci playing Misty, that raving madwoman but who ends up causing tenderness, followed by Lynskey who fits right into Shauna's skin, the chubby girl who never raises her voice and is impassive even when she has to dismember a corpse, finally Lewis who, emaciated and wrinkled as he is, suits Natalie, a recovering drug addict who drives a Porsche with a shotgun in the trunk.

Luckily they have already renewed for the 2nd season because they do not expect answers to all the questions raised in these first 10 episodes.