edmundgrieg-80388
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I can't really fault this. It details in multiple ways, with relevant video clips (the bane of history documentaries), and with multiple perspectives, the issues of Franco's Spain.
My one fault is silly. Watching English speakers saying stuff, only to be interrupted with German, was a little annoying. But there isn't much of this.
This might be a whole other documentary, but 'The Ramifications of Franco up to today', as it was so recent, could have been fitted in, but then, when would a history ever end. The end of this more than adequately covers the issue.
And, yes, the 'fifth episode' on Netflix is just the previous four cut down to one, for the LAZY PEOPLE. :) :p Frankly, I appreciated the review when I figured out what it was.
My one fault is silly. Watching English speakers saying stuff, only to be interrupted with German, was a little annoying. But there isn't much of this.
This might be a whole other documentary, but 'The Ramifications of Franco up to today', as it was so recent, could have been fitted in, but then, when would a history ever end. The end of this more than adequately covers the issue.
And, yes, the 'fifth episode' on Netflix is just the previous four cut down to one, for the LAZY PEOPLE. :) :p Frankly, I appreciated the review when I figured out what it was.
The acting is so stilted all around, I began to wonder if that was the point, to create a surreal scenario about a woman's descent into madness.
No. No. It was all quite real. All the literal nonsense. The sequence of events that made no sense, the bizarre things she saw and heard.
The whole thing makes out it is meaningful. That's gotta be what all the surreal scenes, intros and outros of characters at random points, build up of increasingly ridiculous plot points.
If the movie had stopped before the epilogue, I could have believed that most of the movie was the main characters crazed paranoia. What a pointless framing device!
Nope. All happened. Made like a student art film gone, horribly, horribly wrong. Amateurish. Worse than amateurish.
No. No. It was all quite real. All the literal nonsense. The sequence of events that made no sense, the bizarre things she saw and heard.
The whole thing makes out it is meaningful. That's gotta be what all the surreal scenes, intros and outros of characters at random points, build up of increasingly ridiculous plot points.
If the movie had stopped before the epilogue, I could have believed that most of the movie was the main characters crazed paranoia. What a pointless framing device!
Nope. All happened. Made like a student art film gone, horribly, horribly wrong. Amateurish. Worse than amateurish.
I watched the first Atkinson Maigret and thought it...okay.
None of the characters have any...characteristics, not even the eponymous detective. They are merely vehicles by which we plod through the story: A-B-C etc.
There was a moment where Maigret says 'I don't know' when asked why he was doing something. This was genuinely the most interesting part of this adaptation, because it showed that the detective is flawed, and not hyper-smart, like most tv detectives.
They go to the place, then they do the thing that takes them to the next place, then the next... Since we know who the killers are, one can expect some 'howcatchem' stuff. Perhaps tension is in the chase.
No. The killers show up here. Then there about 30 minutes later. Then one shoots somebody and ends up dead. Why? Exactly. Then there's a horse track. Why? Why not? Then he's in a cell, and I'm thinking 'there's twenty more minutes of this! What were they thinking!?
A duped woman shows up far too late to make any impact. Was the script/screenplay written by a computer? There are some lines which actually sound like they are bad translations. Which, of course, they aren't, this kind of thing doesn't need that kind of attention to detail...it's too plain for that. It's only quest is to progress through A-B-C etc.
Apparently this is set in Paris. Apparently it was filmed somewhere else. It genuinely does not matter. You could change the names and set it in space. The setting is completely absent. It doesn't even matter that it is a period piece. If Maigret had a mobile phone, it would make absolutely no difference; you wouldn't even need to change the script.
So is it about the character? Which one? The Maigret one? He just plods through each incredibly minor discovery ...and...everyone...talks...very...quietly...and...slowly...as...if...they...were...padding...out...the...episode...to...make...it...feature...length.
None of the characters have any...characteristics, not even the eponymous detective. They are merely vehicles by which we plod through the story: A-B-C etc.
There was a moment where Maigret says 'I don't know' when asked why he was doing something. This was genuinely the most interesting part of this adaptation, because it showed that the detective is flawed, and not hyper-smart, like most tv detectives.
They go to the place, then they do the thing that takes them to the next place, then the next... Since we know who the killers are, one can expect some 'howcatchem' stuff. Perhaps tension is in the chase.
No. The killers show up here. Then there about 30 minutes later. Then one shoots somebody and ends up dead. Why? Exactly. Then there's a horse track. Why? Why not? Then he's in a cell, and I'm thinking 'there's twenty more minutes of this! What were they thinking!?
A duped woman shows up far too late to make any impact. Was the script/screenplay written by a computer? There are some lines which actually sound like they are bad translations. Which, of course, they aren't, this kind of thing doesn't need that kind of attention to detail...it's too plain for that. It's only quest is to progress through A-B-C etc.
Apparently this is set in Paris. Apparently it was filmed somewhere else. It genuinely does not matter. You could change the names and set it in space. The setting is completely absent. It doesn't even matter that it is a period piece. If Maigret had a mobile phone, it would make absolutely no difference; you wouldn't even need to change the script.
So is it about the character? Which one? The Maigret one? He just plods through each incredibly minor discovery ...and...everyone...talks...very...quietly...and...slowly...as...if...they...were...padding...out...the...episode...to...make...it...feature...length.
