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Birdman o La Inesperada Virtud de la Ignorancia 2014
Película
Después de hacerse famoso interpretando a un célebre superhéroe, un actor trata de darle un nuevo rumbo a su vida, recuperando a su familia y preparándose para el estreno de una obra teatral en Broadway.
Las caras de Birdman o La Inesperada Virtud de la Ignorancia
- Un actor de superhéroes en decadencia en Broadway
- Una película que parece un solo plano
- Una voz en su cabeza
Buena para ti si
- te gustan los actores que se entregan por completo, dentro y fuera del escenario.
- te gusta una cámara que flota por un teatro sin detenerse.
- te gusta una mirada amarga y divertida sobre la fama y el ego.
Mala para ti si
- el realismo mágico y los actores que flotan no son para ti.
- necesitas un final claro. El último plano te deja adivinando qué fue de Riggan.
Temas: el ego · la relevancia · el arte
Undone 2019
Series
After getting into a near fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.
The sides of Undone
- A woman bending time after a car crash
- Her dead father guiding her
- Rotoscoped animation over real actors
Good for you if
- you like reality slipping away from Alma scene after scene.
- you like painted animation traced over real actors.
- you like a daughter trying to save the father she lost.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated series.
- you want to know for sure whether Alma's visions are real.
About: grief · mental illness · time
Pluribus 2025
Series
The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
The sides of Pluribus
- A novelist immune to a world gone happy
- Humanity joined into one calm mind
- An almost empty Albuquerque
Good for you if
- you like a strange premise where happiness is the threat.
- you like Rhea Seehorn carrying a series almost alone.
- you like laughing at one angry woman against a smiling world.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves fast.
- you want an end of the world with fights and chases.
About: loneliness · free will · happiness
Maniac 2018
Series
Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.
The sides of Maniac
- A drug trial that promises to fix everything
- Two strangers sharing the same dreams
- A computer with feelings running the experiment
Good for you if
- you like each episode jumping into a new dream world.
- you like a retro future with every set carefully designed.
- you like piecing together what is real across the trial.
Bad for you if
- you can't take grief and mental illness at the heart of a story.
- you need the science to make sense.
About: mental illness · grief · connection
Severance 2022
Series
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
The sides of Severance
- Office workers with their memories split in two
- The endless white corridors of Lumon Industries
- A team sorting numbers they don't understand
Good for you if
- you like piecing together what Lumon really does.
- you like goats in an office basement and a waffle party as a reward.
- you like Mark slowly realising what his other self lives through.
Bad for you if
- you need things to move fast from the first episode.
- you want answers at the end of every season.
About: work · identity · grief · control
Serial Experiments Lain 1998
Anime
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
The sides of Serial Experiments Lain
- A shy schoolgirl who logs on to the Wired
- A classmate's suicide and the emails she sends afterwards
- A world where the network and real life blur
Good for you if
- you like a quiet, eerie anime where the internet starts to feel haunted.
- you like piecing together who Lain really is across thirteen strange episodes.
- you're happy to finish with questions and your own theory.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- a teenage suicide at the very start is too much for you.
About: identity · the internet · loneliness · reality
Dead to Me 2019
Series
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
The sides of Dead to Me
- A widow hunting a hit-and-run driver
- An optimist hiding a secret
- Two women becoming close friends
Good for you if
- you like grief and murder played for laughs.
- you like Jen and Judy's friendship through every lie.
- you like a season that ends on a new shock.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch grief and miscarriage up close.
- you need every turn of the plot to feel believable.
About: grief · guilt · female friendship
Wilfred 2011
Series
Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and somewhat surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian bloke in a cheap dog suit. While leading him through a series of comedic and existential adventures, Wilfred the dog shows Ryan the man how to overcome his fears and joyfully embrace the unpredictability and insanity of the world around him.
The sides of Wilfred
- A depressed lawyer after a failed suicide attempt
- His neighbor's dog, seen as a man in a dog suit
- A basement full of strange visions
Good for you if
- you laugh at a crude dog leading a lost man into trouble.
- you like Elijah Wood talking to a man in a cheap dog costume.
- you like never being sure what is real.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story that starts with a suicide attempt.
- you need a story that explains itself logically.
About: depression · friendship · sanity
La llegada 2016
Película
Unas misteriosas naves espaciales aterrizan por todo el mundo. Un equipo, liderado por la lingüista Louise Banks, intenta descifrar el motivo de su visita. A medida que la humanidad se tambalea al borde de la guerra, Louise y su equipo luchan contra el tiempo, llegando a poner en peligro su vida y, muy posiblemente, la del resto de la humanidad.
Las caras de La llegada
- El duelo bajo la ciencia ficción
- Extraterrestres realmente ajenos
- Entender como trama
- Un tiempo que no va en línea recta
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una película que te rompe en silencio al final.
- te gustan las escenas pacientes en las que la gente intenta entenderse.
- te gustan los extraterrestres tratados como un problema real de lenguaje y ciencia.
Mala para ti si
- quieres una invasión alienígena con batallas. No hay ninguna.
- prefieres no esforzarte para seguir una historia. Los recuerdos de Louise solo encajan en el último acto.
Temas: el lenguaje · el duelo · el tiempo · la elección
Atlanta 2016
Series
Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.
The sides of Atlanta
- Earn managing his cousin's rap career
- Paper Boi, a rapper getting famous
- A season on tour in Europe
Good for you if
- you like a comedy where an invisible car or a surreal detour can show up any episode.
- you like laughing at race, money and fame in ways that sting.
- you like Earn, Paper Boi, Darius and Van more than any plot.
Bad for you if
- you want each episode to explain what it meant.
- you need a story that moves forward every week.
About: race · money · fame · family
Dead Like Me 2003
Series
When her life comes to an abrupt end, George discovers that death is nothing like she thought it would be. Recruited to collect the souls of others as they die, she suddenly finds herself an unwilling participant in a line of work she never knew existed: Grim Reaping!
The sides of Dead Like Me
- A young woman killed by a toilet seat from space
- A team of grim reapers in Seattle
- A family grieving without her
Good for you if
- you like laughing at deaths, starting with a toilet seat falling from orbit.
- you like a sulky heroine who only learns to live once she's dead.
- you like a reaper job handed out on sticky notes at a waffle house.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a show built on dying in every episode.
- you need a series that ties up every thread at the end.
About: death · grief · growing up
BoJack Horseman 2014
Series
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?
The sides of BoJack Horseman
- A washed-up 90s sitcom horse
- Hollywoo, where humans and animals live side by side
- Friends he keeps letting down
Good for you if
- you like animal puns next to jokes about addiction and death.
- you want a show that looks hard at why BoJack keeps hurting the people who love him.
- you can take a comedy that doesn't promise anyone gets better.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch addiction, depression and an overdose on screen.
- you don't watch animated series.
About: fame · addiction · depression · regret
Fleabag 2016
Series
A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.
The sides of Fleabag
- A woman who talks to the camera
- A failing guinea pig café in London
- A priest she falls for
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a woman's worst moments as she tells you about them.
- you like Phoebe Waller-Bridge winking at you through the camera.
- you want two short seasons you can watch in a weekend.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather avoid frank sex talk and sex scenes.
- you can't take grief and guilt hidden under the jokes.
About: grief · guilt · loneliness · sisters
Louie 2010
Series
Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.
The sides of Louie
- A divorced comedian raising two daughters
- Stand-up sets in New York clubs
- Episodes that drift into the absurd
Good for you if
- you like laughing at loneliness, aging and awkward dates.
- you like a comedy that turns absurd without warning.
- you like a portrait of one tired man more than a plot.
Bad for you if
- you want a comedy that leaves you feeling good.
- you need momentum. Louie lets long, awkward silences hang and scenes wander.
About: fatherhood · loneliness · divorce
Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995
Anime
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.
The sides of Neon Genesis Evangelion
- A boy ordered by his father to pilot a giant robot
- Angels attacking Tokyo-3
- A final two episodes inside his head
Good for you if
- you like a series that leaves you with more questions than answers.
- you care more about the pilots' minds than the robot fights.
- you like an ending that goes somewhere no one expected.
Bad for you if
- you can't take depression and self-loathing on screen.
- you don't watch anime.
About: depression · fathers and sons · loneliness
Living with Yourself 2019
Series
Burned out on life, Miles undergoes a strange procedure at a strip mall spa -- and wakes to find he's been replaced by a better version of himself.
The sides of Living with Yourself
- A burned-out man at a strip mall spa
- A happier clone of himself
- Paul Rudd playing both
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a man replaced by a happier copy of himself.
- you like Paul Rudd playing two versions of the same man.
- you like a strange premise played completely straight.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not watch a comedy about depression and a marriage in trouble.
- you want a twisty clone thriller, not a marriage comedy.
About: self-worth · marriage · midlife crisis
The Leftovers 2014
Series
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
The sides of The Leftovers
- Two percent of the world vanishing at once
- A police chief holding his family together
- A silent cult dressed in white
Good for you if
- you like grief so raw it moves you to tears.
- you can live with never learning where the vanished went.
- you like Kevin and Nora, two broken people trying to go on.
Bad for you if
- you can't take grief, suicide and despair on screen.
- you need a story that moves fast, not three seasons of mourning.
About: grief · faith · loss
Donnie Darko 2001
Película
Donnie es un chico americano dotado de gran inteligencia e imaginación. Tras escapar milagrosamente de una muerte casi segura, comienza a sufrir alucinaciones que lo llevan a actuar como nunca hubiera imaginado y a descubrir un mundo insólito a su alrededor, pues en sus visiones un gran conejito lo manipula para cometer una serie de crímenes.
Las caras de Donnie Darko
- Un adolescente perturbado y un conejo gigante
- Un motor de avión que cae sobre una casa
- Veintiocho días para el fin
Buena para ti si
- te gustan las películas extrañas y soñadoras con un lado oscuro.
- te gusta armar una historia que no se explica sola.
- te gusta discutir el final después.
Mala para ti si
- necesitas algo de esperanza. El mundo de Donnie cuenta atrás hacia el fin desde los primeros minutos.
- quieres algo suave y seguro. Un motor de avión se estrella en el cuarto de Donnie al principio.
Temas: el destino · el tiempo · la adolescencia
Todo a la vez en todas partes 2022
Película
Cuando una ruptura interdimensional altera la realidad, Evelyn, una inmigrante china en Estados Unidos, se ve envuelta en una aventura salvaje en la que sólo ella puede salvar el mundo. Perdida en los mundos infinitos del multiverso, esta heroína inesperada debe canalizar sus nuevos poderes para luchar contra los extraños y desconcertantes peligros del multiverso mientras el destino del mundo pende de un hilo.
Las caras de Todo a la vez en todas partes
- Absurda por fuera, sincera por dentro
- Una madre, una hija, una familia inmigrante
- Kung-fu y mezcla de géneros
- El vacío, respondido con bondad
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una película donde todo puede pasar, dedos de salchicha incluidos.
- te gustan los chistes absurdos y el kung fu con una riñonera.
- te gusta una historia de madre e hija que golpea fuerte bajo el caos.
Mala para ti si
- no lees subtítulos. Buena parte es en mandarín y cantonés.
- te cuesta seguir los saltos entre universos.
Temas: la familia · el sentido · la amabilidad
Babadook 2014
Película
Seis años después de la violenta muerte de su marido, Amelia continúa perdida intentando educar a Samuel, su hijo de seis años, que vive aterrorizado por un monstruo que se le aparece en sueños y amenaza con matarlos. Cuando un inquietante libro de cuentos llamado “The Babadook” aparece en su casa, Samuel se muestra convencido de que el Babadook es la criatura sobre la que ha estado soñando. Cuando sus alucinaciones entran en una espiral fuera de control, se vuelve impredecible y violento. Amelia, muy asustada por el comportamiento de su hijo, se ve forzada a medicarle. Pero cuando comienza a vislumbrar una presencia siniestra a su alrededor, Amelia poco a poco se da cuenta de que aquello sobre lo que Samuel la ha estado advirtiendo puede ser real.
Las caras de Babadook
- Una madre viuda que no puede dormir
- Un libro desplegable que no desaparece
- Un niño que fabrica armas contra los monstruos
Buena para ti si
- te gusta un monstruo escondido en los rincones oscuros de una casa.
- te gusta una historia de terror que trata en el fondo de una madre y su hijo.
- te gusta un miedo que crece noche tras noche sin dormir.
Mala para ti si
- no soportas ver a una viuda hundirse en el duelo y el agotamiento.
- quieres saber con certeza si el monstruo es real.
Temas: el duelo · la maternidad · la depresión