Gretel & Hansel (2020)

It’s a suffering middle ages take on Hänsel und Gretel with a witchboss story. It is a slow film with creepy imagery and anachronistic injections, like neo-brutalist architecture. It’s an okay watch.

But also the team had enough cucks in the positions of power to make this film in a triple-fake aspect ratio. Do you enjoy your expensive screen you’ve bought to enjoy kinematograph? Well, screw you, it’s 1.55 aspect ratio o clock!

But no, making a film that will be pillarboxed in a cinematheatre, pillarboxed on modern screens, and letterboxed on 4//3 screens was not enough. This film also switches aspect ratios. And none of the dimensions is dominant. It is baked into a 16//9 frame. So when you watch it it will be windowboxed then pillarboxed in a cinematheatre, letterboxed then pillarboxed on modern screens, letterboxed then windowboxed on 4//3 screens. Because screw you, that’s why!

Authorial intent? Artistic vision? Just zoom into this crap until it fills the whole screen, no matter which one you have, and then complain in a review about every scene that was out of frame. If they don’t respect you, why respect them?

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