KINDS OF KINDNESS: Is it top-tier Yorgos? (no)

Kindness is for cowards. #Jocksrule
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Letterboxd: Adriano Caporusso

[@overfather1477]

Excellent review. You said everything that needs to be said in 6 minutes. You get my sub good sir.

[@jansproull9206]

"Kinds of Kindness" is a name about a film which some critics have already hailed for its human cruelty. The reviews and clips with spoilers already tell me enough, and it's a definite pass. So KoK is not a fit for me because cruelty for its own sake is just sick. We already know that spiritual (or call it psychological) sicknesses (twisted codependency, violent dominance and submission, so on) are part of the human condition. But the sickness needs to be stopped in the story, or redeemed, or moved forward from, whatever that might mean to someone, or we're just internalizing a civilized version of stomach-turning barbarism in film. Not good for our souls. Thus I oppose this type of offering filmically and vote with my wallet by not going to see it. Much like the SCOTUS decision that allowed unfettered unlimited and "dark" money to corrupt US politics goes by the misnomer "Citizens United" (from a misnamed entity imo in the litigation and appeal), "Kinds of Kindness" is a horrible joke of a name, We laugh sometimes as reaction when the meanspirited desperate behavior is so over the top in a film we don't know how to cry in a theater with other people around. So I understand the reviewer's reaction --- but I don't applaud Yorgos and his cast for giving it to him. Btw, I appreciated "Poor Things" by Yorgos and found Emma Stone and the rest of the cast to be brilliant while edgy, and deserving of all awards. For talented actors to bond so thoroughly with Yorgos that they are willing to appear in such cruel fare as putative "Kinds of Kindness" appears to me as its own type of cruel codependency. Just saying. Others free to disagree. Everybody has an opinion. Kumbaya.