Ep. 20: IS FILM CRITICISM SUBJECTIVE?

Ep. 20: IS FILM CRITICISM SUBJECTIVE?

The accusation is made again and again: Film reviews are completely subjective. What is meant by this is: "Why listen to film critics? - After all, I have my own opinions. Many people believe that taste is a purely personal matter. But there are indeed criteria. Wolfgang M. Schmitt Jr. explains the difference between subjective and subjectivist film criticism.

Ep. 19: At full throttle into stupidity: FAST X – Review & Analysis

Help! Unfortunately, this series has no end! Vin Diesel as Dom Toretto must once again defend the family, he is supported by many colleagues who also can not act. "Fast & Furious 10" ("Fast X") is a makeshift continuation of the fifth part: Dante (Jason Momoa) is the son of drug lord Hernan Reyes, who was once treated badly by the Torettos. Dante now wants to avenge his father, who was humiliated in the fifth part of the franchise. He also fights for the family - but for his own. As gruesomely crude and poorly told as the film is, if you look at it as a symptom, you can easily derive a social diagnosis from it: In this film, we encounter people without a world, and in the cinema audiences sit without a film. For dismemberment and fragmentation determine the form and content of this series. More on this by Wolfgang M. Schmitt in the film analysis.

Ep. 18: Abominable! Why THE EQUALIZER 3 is an evil film - Review & Analysis

This time Denzel Washington as Robert McCall roams the alleys of an Italian coastal town to hunt down villains. The members of the Camorra seem like caricatures and at the same time like embodiments of absolute evil. Opposite them in Antoine Fuqua's "The Equalizer 3 - The Last Chapter" are the supposedly good people who have to be protected from the Mafia. Manicheism is not the only problem with this film; what is particularly bad is how much the camera loves to bathe in the blood of the perpetrators. Ostentatiously, the film shows McCall torturing his adversaries. Wolfgang M. Schmitt explains why we are dealing with an evil film.

Ep. 17: Highly topical: Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick is a solitaire in film history. His works are enigmatic, they stand on their own and elude any current references. With "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb" (#DrStrangelove [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/drstrangelove]), however, things are a bit different. The film is a direct response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, albeit a very artificial and bitterly nasty one. Peter Sellers slips into three roles at once, including that of the title character, who wants to see the world burn and just can't keep his right hand still. But what does the film, which was released in 1964, still have to say to us today? After all, the Cold War is long over. But the nuclear threat is by no means - many countries continue to arm, and leading politicians still believe in the idea of #deterrence [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/deterrence] policy, which this classic blackly humorous exposes as an illusion. More on this by Wolfgang M. Schmitt in the film analysis!

Ep. 16: Why DIRTY DANCING is about class struggle

Without a doubt, "Dirty Dancing" is one of the most popular films ever among a primarily female audience. But this success is based on a misconception. Even if female viewers hang languidly in front of the TV on girls' night out, only very few of them have really understood the radical nature of the film. For all its popularity, "Dirty Dancing" is at the same time a completely underestimated left-wing film whose class-struggle message has lost none of its topicality. More about this from Wolfgang M. Schmitt in the new film analysis!