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Amazon worker hilariously leaves their own “movie review” in DVD order
An surprising word from an Amazon employee has captured viral consideration this week after a buyer shared the package deal they obtained on Reddit.
Deshende lives in rural Ohio and ordered a duplicate of the 2016 film Your Title directed by Makoto Shinkai for his father, nevertheless it arrived with an surprising addition.
Within the submit with over 45,000 upvotes, Deshende mentioned “Amazon employee left a film evaluation with my order,” alongside an image of the Blu-ray and DVD combo pack and a scrawled word that learn: “Film was good. I cried!”
Your Title has gained 16 awards, together with Most Widespread Movie on the 2017 Japanese Academy Awards.
“I bought the film on a whim for my dad,” Deshende instructed Newsweek. “He’ll usually touch upon films he enjoys which might be thought frightening and nicely written. He is not an anime fan however I used to be taking a chance that he’d prefer it so bought it for him as a present for his upcoming birthday.”
A self-confessed Reddit “lurker,” Deshende solely posted the story on the favored website as a result of sharing it on Fb might have given away the shock for his father.
After buying the film as a part of a Black Friday order, the consumer did not discover the word till it was time to clear issues away. “Once I was cleansing up bins and packaging, I observed the slip of paper on the bottom and once I picked it up, I used to be stunned to see handwriting on it,” mentioned Deshende. “As soon as I noticed it was in reference to the Your Title film it put a giant smile on my face. I assumed it was a enjoyable factor for the Amazon employee to do because the film does often convey out sturdy feelings.”
On Reddit in over 1,000 feedback, customers agreed with the employee’s film evaluation.
“Can verify, cried too,” mentioned one commenter. Whereas one other wrote: “That is fairly cool.”
“I watched this on the aircraft and everybody round me was involved as I ugly cried in my cramped aisle seat,” mentioned one other Redditor.
Shocked that the submit had gained such viral consideration on Reddit, Deshende additionally shared concern for the Amazon employee stepping into hassle for the word.
“My greatest fear is that whoever at Amazon put the word in my order would get punished for it. I would hate to get somebody punished for making an attempt to place some positivity out on the earth,” he mentioned.
“I loved that the thread prompted discussions on the film itself, film strategies for those who favored Your Title, discussions about what films gave individuals probably the most cathartic cries, and likewise individuals declaring the humanity of somebody taking the time to write down out the word in the midst of a busy day,” mentioned Deshende. “Due to the Amazon employee that put somewhat positivity out to the world that day.”
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Boy Kills World: Bill Skarsgard stars in blood-soaked thriller
2/5 stars
Exploding onto the screen like the bastard son of a dozen 1980s action movies and an arcade full of beat-’em-up video games, Boy Kills World is a whirl of blood-soaked martial arts and jet black humour that barely pauses for breath.
Over the course of two hours, Boy tears through the hierarchy of a near-future dystopia in the hopes of destroying the regal Van Der Koys, responsible for murdering his family.
The hook to Boy Kills World is that, because of his debilitated senses, Boy narrates his every waking moment through an incessant internal monologue, in a voice lifted from his favourite childhood video game, Super Dragon Punch Force 3.
Comedian and voice artist H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob’s Burgers) provides Boy with the vocal identity for his relentlessly self-aware, comic-book-style voice-over.
Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen) rules with an iron fist, staging an annual “culling”, whereby a dozen enemies of the state are ceremonially executed in front of the people.
Such a fate befell Boy’s own mother and sister, and he has spent the years since living in hiding, honing his body into a lethal weapon under the brutal tutelage of Yayan Ruhian’s unforgiving Shaman.
Once Boy is set in motion, there is no stopping the swathe of bloody carnage he unleashes.
First-time writer-director Moritz Mohr shot the film in South Africa, which lends it a visually distinctive otherworldliness, but beyond this cosmetic exoticism, Boy Kills World ploughs a painfully familiar path.
Its sustained tone of fast-paced choreography, splashy violence and knowingly irreverent humour soon becomes exasperating, leaving it with no other option than to barrel towards a wholly predictable finale.
Skarsgard’s performance must be commended for its physicality, but ultimately Boy Kills World becomes as much of a physical ordeal to watch as for its hero to survive, and will surely prompt all but the most resilient of viewers to tap out long before justice is served.
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Movie review: The Teacher's Lounge – Law Society Journal
Idealistic young teacher Carla Nowak (played with anxious intensity by Leonie Benesch) is a new arrival at a German secondary school. Well-meaning and empathetic, she is the conductor of a peaceful classroom. A shot of Carla from behind, her arms beautifully outstretched, suggests this is her daily orchestra. She is organised and dedicated, if a touch closed off from her fellow teachers.
But when a student of Turkish origin is accused of stealing money, and Carla’s own surveillance of the teachers’ lounge indicates the guilt of Friederike Kuhn, an administrative staff member, we realise she’s far from in control. Carla’s star pupil, Lukas (Mrs Kuhn’s son), resents the accusation aimed at his mother. The students rally around him and the teachers, divided by internal disagreements, seem almost powerless to assert control.
Long gone is the strict discipline of The 400 Blows or Dead Poets Society. The students in the film seek neither escape to the outside world nor solace in the rich inner worlds sparked by poetry. As they have been taught, these students seek answers. They seek justice. As the editor of the student newspaper boldly declares that, outside of truth, “everything else is just PR.”
The path to maturity for the students seems not to lie in compromising their ideals but in sticking to them ever more fiercely. It’s a wonderful inversion of what the Germans call “Bildung,” the tradition which examines the formative years of youth, marked as it is by a certain moral education. But the students cede no ground. They are uninterested in the murky give-and-take of the adult world. Their world is zero sum.
Indeed, it is the teachers’ uncertain sense of themselves as disciplinarians and moral leaders that provides so much fuel for the plot. They do not know who they are, and the students grasp it quickly. Carla in particular has ideals, but does she really believe in them? Çatak satirises the speed at which the right to privacy, freedom of the press, and the concept of innocent until proven guilty are upended in the search for a thief. It’s quite an achievement, especially given that thrillers are rarely satirical, and satires seldom thrilling.
The film moves so briskly that viewers can be forgiven for failing to notice that on Carla’s surveillance video, Mrs Kuhn’s blouse is patterned with little stars. It’s a knowing nod to Germany’s tragic past. That Mrs Kuhn also represents a slightly different power struggle within the school – between the teachers and the administrative staff – adds more complexity to The Teachers’ Lounge. One can only hope that the next films concerning the consequences of accusation are so richly engaging.
Verdict: Five stars
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