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kid charlemagne

kid charlemagne

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IdleRich said:
Yeah I loved it though I would struggle to articulate why... perhaps you can help me with that?
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well for starters, the show has trouble articulating itself, in a literal sense, there isn't a lot of talking, and when characters do talk, they do so in a very slow and monotonous esoteric way....ii believe there are only 8 episodes, varying in minute length, but the show has a high sense of self awareness with its subject matter (police corruption, high class pedophilia, human trafficking, others im forgetting i havent watched the show in years), it hardly uses its words so bluntly or forwardly, and when it does, it almost comes off satirical (the scene at the police hq where all the officers are chanting "fascism")..... the series is also incredibly hyper stylized as a result of NWR getting what it looked like free reign from amazon to do whatever he wants, so in short, you get some neon lighting, slow talking show about california sickos.... you like it because its a handsomely stylized show that takes its time and doesnt hold your hand.... its a great show! i should run it back this year
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
kid charlemagne said:
well for starters, the show has trouble articulating itself, in a literal sense, there isn't a lot of talking, and when characters do talk, they do so in a very slow and monotonous esoteric way....ii believe there are only 8 episodes, varying in minute length, but the show has a high sense of self awareness with its subject matter (police corruption, high class pedophilia, human trafficking, others im forgetting i havent watched the show in years), it hardly uses its words so bluntly or forwardly, and when it does, it almost comes off satirical (the scene at the police hq where all the officers are chanting "fascism")..... the series is also incredibly hyper stylized as a result of NWR getting what it looked like free reign from amazon to do whatever he wants, so in short, you get some neon lighting, slow talking show about california sickos.... you like it because its a handsomely stylized show that takes its time and doesnt hold your hand.... its a great show! i should run it back this year
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Yeah I bet they regretted letting him be so free, it's a bizarre mixture of Tarkovsky-styke slowness with a bit of Lynchesque surreal comedy and unbelievably brutal violence. Oh and lots of weird sex plus Somalians pretending to be Jamaicans.

I remember sitting down to watch the last episode thinking how can anything happen cos there is noone left alive, even the 'hero' was gruesomely tortured to death... but it had some kind of inexplicably beautiful backwards magic to it. It was like Drive dialled up to eleven and if he went fuck it ill take out all the bits normal people might like.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
I am a total sucker for Refn even though - or because - i know he's a total fake... have you seen Pusher and Bleeder etc?
 
Murphy

Murphy

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Always happy until you lose his stash, then you’re fucked

He does the happy switch really well too, happy in amongst family gatherings to 100% malevolence
 
william_kent

william_kent

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I loved it, especially the appearances by people from Pusher

I wouldn't have described it as plodding, more 'dream like'
 
william_kent

william_kent

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IdleRich said:
Anyone seen this?

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I have but I fail to remember anything about it.

I had to look it up to try and remind myself what happens - not much apparently:

Overweight expatriate Tobias shares his Bangkok apartment with his pregnant Thai girlfriend,Koi. They have so little in common that their relationship is conducted in near silence, though they tolerate each other for reasons of security and companionship. Their lives are uneventful and dull until a provincial mafia hitman arrives on the scene.
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