A Brief History Of The Greek Weird Wave 

My favorite scene was when he accused the mother (locked up in the compound with the kids 24/7) of not spending enough time with their children...

If you do not take this literally, it could also apply to a country that uses propaganda to manipulate its citizens, or a religion..

@@lateralus88vicarious A typical government or institution.

I think you would love the mexican "castle of purity"

Yep, same here.

My thoughts exactly

Same. I'd watch them gladly, if I was tied on a chair and someone was dropping eye drops in my eyes

"Pity" is fire

Not the first one in this series where a filmmaker’s said they don’t agree with the classification! For me, I view this idea of waves/movements as a lens through which to see the history of cinema, not a hard-and-fast club membership. Like the German New Wave in the 60s/70s, this is a looser collection of films that approach similar themes in different ways (sometimes very, very different), reacting to the extraordinary circumstances in their country.

There is indeed a wave triggered by the economic crisis, you can easily detect it if you also look at other arts: music, painting, theater and performance are all encompassed by this new melancholia, pessimism and hopelessness, showcasing the deep conservatism, hypocrisy and absurdity of modern Greek society, and expressing the mental anguish of young people that are trapped in (and beg to escape) this cultural facade. Athens in particular is at the forefront of this wave. While I agree that Lanthimos is not really representative of it, I would definitely put Dogtooth in the "weird" wave.

@@Indietrixit’s so loose ( pause) and so different that imo the films shouldn’t be lumped together but they are for the sake of making content like this and it’s potentially a little misleading. Its the kind of thing that if it isn’t addressed early it just spins into a narrative that people believe without even really understanding where it came from. A lot of directors have these sort of associations tied to them that we don’t realize are false until they’re like 80 and still disputing it and a new generation comes in with fresh eyes and can see the filmography for what it really is and not just the think-pieces of its time.

@@vocalsg13I think Yorgos himself is the entire wave and represents what you’re speaking of and these writers just lump in other Greek films for the sake of content. These other films however to me feel almost “weird for weirdness sake” so much so that I just think there should at least be a tiny nod to the distinct differences between his works and these other few filmmakers.

Don't bet the Greeks made a movie like that. We have a lot of crypto-foreigners in Greece who run almost everything.

@@PlanetIscandar WTF? Νίκος Γεωργίου Νικολαΐδης is a great director and Singapore Sling a great film.

@@grisflyt I said "don't bet". Nothing more. Thank you for the information. Do you know if I can watch the whole movie somewhere to judge better (regardless of whether it is indeed a patriotic Greek or a crypto-foreign production or script or inspiration)?

@@PlanetIscandar You realize how insecure and pathetic you sound?

Nothing more far than it. Mentality and attitude of ancient myths is totally different.

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None , Greece has an extremely small jewish community since most of them were killed by the Germans

Only Tsangari SHOULD be Jewish, however you got it right in a sense, all these bunch of people love Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Naomi Klein, Noam Tsomski etc and very warm embracers of US woke

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loss of ground to the right???? Are you kidding?

@@fiat2496 Yes. Yes. Ideology follows material wealth and power. And the ruling class dedication to the capitalist principles that have resulted in the creation of the largest wealth inequality favoring the top 2% ruling oligarchy ever seen American history since at least 1900 has resulted in a radical shift rightward in every principle that matters; all those that have to do with wealth, power, it’s accumulation and its inheritance from one generation to the next. What your talking about no doubt is culture. Immaterial culture. Culture is an epiphenomenon of the material and economic conditions that control the lives of those who who live in the cultural milieu. In our thoroughly capitalist and consumer society there’s no cultural movement (even ones you might call “cultural leftist” that aren’t thoroughly infused with the power flowing from the inherently conservative right-wing capitalist values to preserve the hierarchy of wealth and power that exists in the society. Even the most apparently radical of cultural values you can think of has no real power to effect change without first being transformed by the necessities of the capitalist means of production and consumption. The necessities of capitalism determine first what culture will be and won’t be in society, and who it’s proponents will be, how widespread it will be and what actual political power it will have. Until a more balanced economic distribution of wealth is achieved again with a large and healthy middle class again society will be inherently right-wing, since the top 2% of society, the super wealthy oligarchy will have an inordinately huge influence on society at every level vis their ownership of assets and media and … everything.

@@fiat2496 Yes. "Wokism" is corporatist. It's purely performative. Hiring a gender fluid drone operator doesn't change anything. Disney, BlackRock, the Pentagon and the entire military-industrial complex are "woke." So is Israel. "Pink washing." Identity politics and intersectionality gave us Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential candidate. Bernie Sanders supporters were vilified as "Bernie bros." Want more performance? Try Obama's campaign against sexual assaults on college campuses. College campuses are probably the safest places there are for women. Surely single mothers should have been more of a priority. But that doesn't win support from the affluent white class that got Obama elected.

The only significant tax evasion in Greece is done by some multinationals who do not pay a single euro, thanks to domestic crypto-foreigners setting the law.

1,7 billion euros are tax evaded by multicompanies .

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@@plurabelle5 shut up lmao so pressed

That’s a stupid comment

Economides is the wave

Don't assume that all Greeks are like these individuals.

Those Marbles do not belong to Elgin, thus it is wrong to call them under his name…if you have the capacity to know of some history, do call them with their real name!

@@CMR10500 What do you mean? The Ottoman Turks owned the Parthenon at the time (for a while it was a mosque).. The Acropolis was an Ottoman fort. The Ottomans gave those marbles to Elgin. "If you have the capacity to know some history..." Evidently I do, since I have to point out to you that he was given those marbles by the Turks. From Elgin's point of view, he was saving them from the Turks.

@@MrJm323 See, you are making my point even more obvious... If you are not a troll then, please do make a research to uncover what has been going on so far... The short story is that those Parthenon marbles have been stolen and damaged in the process of doing so and even their maintenance in the British Museum is of poor quality... The truth is more sinister and the British museum in general has a nasty history of stolen artifacts and their controversial preservation in general...

thank God most of us are normal people, nothing like these wankers. And they are 1) sculptures not marbles 2) Acropolis of Athens ΑΚΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ and not Elgin's. Elgin was the thief. You don't name something after his thief.