Murder movie, tied somewhat to Pythagoras

[Kyriakos]

Movie's title translates to "my other self", or "another me".

Maybe i just want to think it may be of note. It is good that by now films are made here about less dumb stuff.
The plot doesn't look very innovative (someone kills people and writes phrases by Pythagoras, so -???- the police seek the help of an autistic math professor.

Will report more when i see it

 

[Ferocitus]

Movie's title translates to "my other self", or "another me".

Maybe i just want to think it may be of note. It is good that by now films are made here about less dumb stuff.
The plot doesn't look very innovative (someone kills people and writes phrases by Pythagoras, so -???- the police seek the help of an autistic math professor.

Will report more when i see it

The use of an "autistic maths prof" sounds a bit trite.
However, clever script writers could make it fresh and interesting.

A nice twist (IMO) would be to prove that the phrases used could only
come from the missing pages of something similar to the Archimedes Palimpsest.
A bad twist would be if the phrases were just Pythagoras banning beans in the
student cafe because he was sick of his acolytes making fart jokes.

Keep us posted, K.

 

[Kyriakos]

At least one of the phrases is very well known, "to silence the truth is like burying gold", so i suppose the other ones would be known too. And yes, it may be trite (i hope it isn't), but it still is good that greek movies no longer have stupid subject matter as they used to (in the past there was 1,5 serious director here) , and this one isn't part of the 'greek weird' (eg 'Dogtooth') bizarre movies fest either (it even stars a well-known french actor)

 

[Ferocitus]

At least one of the phrases is very well known, "to silence the truth is like burying gold", so i suppose the other ones would be known too. And yes, it may be trite (i hope it isn't), but it still is good that greek movies no longer have stupid subject matter as they used to (in the past there was 1,5 serious director here) , and this one isn't part of the 'greek weird' (eg 'Dogtooth') bizarre movies fest either (it even stars a well-known french actor)

I'm not familiar with Greek "weird" movies or vids.

I used to play a game with my son, nieces and their friends in which they
would have to try to guess the nationality of some bands I found on youtube.
One they absolutely loved was a section from "Black Swamp Village".

(Start at 2:45 for the actual song.)

Is that something like what you mean by "weird"? Or is that just standard,
but tuneful, zombie stuff?

Bright Lights Late Nights

That one is normal by any standard, and sweet.

 

[Kyriakos]

Well, "greek weird" cinema is stuff like Dogtooth and its spawns, eg a type of violent film with bizarre and unrealistic for the shake of added shock, plot (that, or its directors are just insane creeps ). Its first director got famous enough to do a movie with a-list foreign actors:

(edit, cause the above likely is the least unsavory of the greek weird, and another i had posted makes me want to vomit )

 

[Kyriakos]

I'm not familiar with Greek "weird" movies or vids.

I used to play a game with my son, nieces and their friends in which they
would have to try to guess the nationality of some bands I found on youtube.
One they absolutely loved was a section from "Black Swamp Village".

(Start at 2:45 for the actual song.)

Is that something like what you mean by "weird"? Or is that just standard,
but tuneful, zombie stuff?

Nice. And they do look entirely greek too ^^

 

[Ferocitus]

I watched a few minutes of Dogtooth. It is "Greek weird" in a similar way to how Bad Boy Bubby is "Australian weird".

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't like Dogtooth or his other films, or "greek weird" in general. Yet it is good that he showed that more kinds of films can be produced here, instead of dumb """comedies""" in the 90s that really were junk and universally scoffed at

Before that there was really just the Angelopoulos movies, but he was another kind of brutal devastation of negative emotions.

I gave up watching the above film 15 min in. It was just a scream of despair...

The two kids go searching for their father. Abroad. They never find him, of course. In the end they make themselves believe that a lone tree in the mist is their father.
It is really deadly sad

 

[Ferocitus]

I don't like Dogtooth or his other films, or "greek weird" in general. Yet it is good that he showed that more kinds of films can be produced here, instead of dumb """comedies""" in the 90s that really were junk and universally scoffed at .

No, they weren't universally scoffed at. Barring accidents, nobody outside of Greece would have watched them.

 

[Kyriakos]

No, they weren't universally scoffed at. Barring accidents, nobody outside of Greece would have watched them.

Universally is here used as a synekdoche Of course such garbage wouldn't ever be known outside, like sub-cultural garbage of most countries stay firmly within their own borders.

 

[Ferocitus]

Universally is here used as a synekdoche Of course such garbage wouldn't ever be known outside, like sub-cultural garbage of most countries stay firmly within their own borders.

Of course there are notable exceptions: like Australian garbage (e.g. Neighbours) that is unusually popular in England.
OTOH, any place that has sunlight probably looks like scifi to them.

 

[Kyriakos]

I hope that Rex the Runt stayed within british borders. But i suppose it is the kind of appalling crap that other northernos would find funny