Another week behind us. Traffic jams, demonstrations, excessive prices, one evening of fun to unload everything, and God forbid. Don’t you think you forgot something? That’s right, your television that remains orphaned, waiting for the moment when you remember that it was always there, even when the friends broke up. Approach the couch with slow steps, turn on the TV, and make peace with it. And more importantly – allow yourself a few hours of relative silence, you need it. And this time: a trip around the globe, except for America. have fun
The time has come: Still Time
You know those hours, in between, that are only yours? In traffic jams that last forever, in training – if you managed to get up from the couch, or even in the supermarket between the noise of the carts and looking at the shopping list? Just in these moments, when we have no one to talk to but ourselves, there are some thoughts that probably go through each of us’s heads.
Aside from 6th grade profanity or things we should have said to less sympathetic people around us, and it’s a shame we didn’t, many of us wonder what it feels like to travel through time. And with unprecedentedly precise timing, “It’s Time” comes to show us how it feels.
The Italian film before us tells the story of a young man who is quite obsessed with his life, who is addicted to his work and rushes everywhere. Suddenly, he will begin to notice that he has jumped a year in time, imaginary as it may be, making his constant running an attempt to go backwards. Far-fetched, but leaves quite a bit of food for thought about this whole story of enjoying the road and burdening ourselves far beyond what is necessary. May increase the desire for a snack, served cold.
It’s time, Still Time (photo: courtesy of Netflix)
Skyscraper: Sky High
And if we’re already in foreign content that isn’t American and reminds us of series we’ve already seen, I found a new addiction for us that has no side effects, except for a tremendous feeling of pomo when we have to turn off Netflix and go to work. You know, there is no choice.
So meet Sula, a young woman who was widowed by her husband who made a rather questionable living. To make her son’s life much more comfortable than it was apparently destined to be, Sula decides to join her late partner’s gang and appoint herself the head of a criminal organization.
An interesting lesson on the question ‘does the end justify the means’, and conclusive proof that a woman, as we’ve known all along, can be whatever she wants, even in a field that even in the television world was mainly reserved for men.
Skyscraper, Sky High (photo: courtesy of Netflix)
The Shadow King: In His Shadow
French now. Two half-brothers lived their lives in a completely normal way, until the moment when their father, who tied their fate many years ago without asking them, passed away under circumstances that will be revealed throughout the film. From now on, the two will find themselves on two ends of a conflict that they didn’t even know they would enter against their will, a conflict that could affect them in a way they didn’t expect.
Thriller to the exact degree, not boring even though brothers and action movies are a well-worn combination, and one plus for the French that makes everything better. If you disagree with my arbitrary statement, you probably haven’t heard enough French, and that’s a shame.
The King of Shadows, In His Shadow (Photo: Courtesy of Netflix)
The noise inside: Noise
Guess which country we are in now. Well, the name of the film doesn’t really give away its origin except to describe what we experience from the moment we get up in the morning, so I’ll tell you – we arrived in Belgium. And yes, again it is a thriller. I promise to find comedies that pass the time for the next time.
The 90 minutes before us accompany a man from the settlement who moves to live in his childhood home with his family as an adult. Anyone who has ever watched a movie in his life would have warned him that this is no less a bad idea, but as they say – two light.
And as you must have seen, the memories and the less good things float, and add to that an accident investigation at a nearby factory related to the father of our informants, then the story just keeps getting more complicated. Oh, and there are also secrets that will turn the bowl upside down, and leave a mess. Somewhat cringe, prepare yourself for not wanting to pause in the middle, not even for the pizza you ordered.
The noise inside, Noise (photo: courtesy of Netflix)
Or: Or
And as at the end of every trip we already start to miss the country and some good falafel dish that will send our best clothes to the wash, I will dedicate my last recommendation to another bright spot on Netflix painted in blue and white tones.
‘Or’, which first saw the light somewhere in 2004 and won the Ophir Award and the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, follows Or (Dana Ivegi), a 17-year-old high school student, who tries at all costs to support her and her sick mother (Ronit Alkavetz), who worked as a prostitute.
As you probably understood, this is a difficult film. The day-to-day survival of the two does not provide many fairly optimistic views, but the acting of Ivy, and of the late Alkabetz, whose absence is felt almost as much as the day she passed away, is mesmerizing in a way that cannot even be explained.
Or (photo: photo from the movie poster)