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Two sides of the same coin?

Devil All the Time (2020) A t one look, it seems that the story is going all over the place. At one time, you think that one particular character is the protagonist, but wham! she is killed off. Then another also killed off, and another yet again. There are plenty of killings and dying on the whole, but then, it all builds up to make sense at the end. There are many cryptic messages embedded within the storyline that questions the perception of what evil really is. Our divinity and evil part and parcel of the same continuum, not in contradiction but a mere extension of a spectrum?  One complements the other. Just like how light is appreciated in darkness, evil is necessary for us to appreciate goodness. Like how it is a necessity that Tom never catches Jerry for the excitement to continue. Will E Coyote will never have the Road Runner for dinner for Coyote may become mad if, one day, he gets up in the morning to realise that he has nothing to do. Satan can never lose if Goodness we...

Launchpad of a kitten

And God Created Woman (Et Dieu… créa la femme ;   French, 1956) This film became a commercial success not because of a storyline (hardly any), dialogue or cinematographic skills but purely due to exploitation to the maximum of her well endowed physical attributes. This PETA loving animal activist started as an animal herself, a sex kitten! It is draggy movie with no purpose in its storytelling. It just goes on and on mundane things. Guess, viewers are not there for some exercise activity but rather stimulation of the visual kind. Julliete (Brigette Bardot) is a 21 year old precociously promiscuous orphan who gains the ire of her guardian. She is uncontrollable immature highly sexed girl who flirts with many guys in town. She is sent back to the orphanage. She shows interest in two guys in town - a elderly Carradine who plans to build a casino and Antione, a hunk who is only out for a one night stand and whose land Carradine is trying to buy over. In twists of ev...