DrearyB

One of the most dramatic flips in cultutre in my life
experience has to do with movies. Used to be movies were
potential masterpieces of univeral appeal. Once
identified, a director of talent would be given some
resources and told to make one, to be eventually
rewarded with an Oscar and, in Europe,  serious consideration
by critics.

Am I the only one to have noticed this: today's big budget movies
are niche topics, preachy and boring. They are compromised from the
get-go by their subject or message, what might have been  made-for-
television healthy fare in earlier times. And forget the critics: films are
assessed in the financial column, so many millions invested, so many
returned in x weeks. Dreary business to be sure.

Thankfully, the human spirit fights back. One might find, wasting away
on YouTube, low-budget made-for-television stuff that is actually rather
good. I have two candidates below: the first, billed as a comedy, actually
brought me to tears, and is a brutal and lucid examination of mental
health issues. The second, in such colloquial French as to be hard to follow,
punched me out with a bombastic Québecois character as one of the gang.
A first, and rather funny!

As we, the forgotten of Web referrals like to say, Enjoy!