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Regardless of what people may say about Serra's arrogance and self-delusion, this film brilliantly captures a zeitgeist, in the way that TV series like The White Lotus or films like Triangle of Sadness only suggest. There is a sense of doom, a malaise so starkly real that the film simply doesn't need much more to captivate the viewer. It is a modern film in a way that few others have been in recent years. And it will prevail as a model for the ages. The film that captured the spirit of the 2020s.

É um filme contemplativo, cuja primeira hora é um deslumbre visual, com vários filtros e paisagens, acompanhando a história do comissário num lugar paradisíaco. A partir da sua metade, fica tudo muito cansativo e repetitivo, nem mesmo as cenas mais sensuais parecem boas, soam extensas e gratuitas. Além disso, o suspense não se sustenta dada a grande duração para a proposta.

'Pacifiction' is at times impenetrable, but at others, it's an experience as pleasant as it is hypnotic. Director Albert Serra delivers something akin to a political thriller that incorporates themes related to paranoia, colonialism, hedonism, and nihilism in a beautiful setting that makes you think about the world's end. What begins as a satire of the bourgeoisie becomes a somewhat suspenseful film that even seems to evoke David Lynch with images close to the surreal and the absurd. Slow cinema at its peak.

it was calm and quiet. Two hours and forty-five minutes is a long time to tell a modern thriller drama, but in the end the film resorts to clichéd admiral dialogues and slogans to wrap up its drama. Nothing special happens either in the narrative or in the narrative structure or in the characterization and characters.