Movie #2087 "Bestia" (movie theater - oscar-nominated animated shorts 2022) I can't remember hating a movie more than this one -- I'm sure I did, but this is the one I will most dislike that has the honor of being oscar-nomiated this year --- what a mistake, to me. Besides being incoherent at times, we are forced to watch torture of human beings and dogs, bestiality, and a lot of the same things day after day after day (like groundhog day) -- which means the story becomes even more frustrating because it's like when someone continuously speaks the same sentence in a foreign language over and over --- we don't get it, okay? I give this film a 0 --- it's a waste of any effort people made to make it. Enough said.
"BESTIA" 2021 16 mins Chile
Ingrid is working in the Chilean intelligence Directorate (DINA in 1075. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveal a grim fracture in her mind and in an entire country.
Chile, 1975. Against the backdrop of Augusto Pinochet's authoritarian military government, we probe into the sad life of a cold, blankly inscrutable lady and her monotonous routine: the impassive woman goes to work, travels back and forth to a mysterious house, plays with her German Shepherd, bakes cakes, and is concerned about her weight. However, as her story unfolds through daily rituals, a beastly portrait starts to take shape, bringing to light the shocking picture of the enduring damage done to a country shattered by unpunished crimes and sickening atrocities.
(now if only the film conveyed that above message, it might have worked)
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