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Se7en 1995
Part of Hoop-Tober
“Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.”
Gluttony
He has taken on too much. Det. David Mills (Brad Pitt), deliberately uprooting his wife, Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), from upstate and dragging her to this lurid hellhole, all out of a naïve desire to save the world. So much ambition, he nearly chokes on it. So much chatter, he sucks all the air from the room.
Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) long ago…
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Halloween 1978
Got into an argument with a couple of 16 year old students of mine about how most of them have the attention span of fruit flies with ADHD and that most modern media seems to cater to their sugar rush needs causing them to lose appreciation for the power of simplicity.
They disagreed.
I showed them the opening scene of Halloween.
That shut them up.
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Gone Girl 2014
Gone Girl is an exceedingly maniacal game of manipulation on two fronts: both wrapped within the chilling narrative as a dastardly puzzle revealing the fake personas and fantasies that people box themselves into, along with aesthetically, as director David Fincher is able to play his audience as evilly and playfully as anyone can. Fincher, and writer Gillian Flynn, peel back the layers of deception to unveil more deception, and at its heart, a challenging, mustered-shaded deconstruction of modern married life…
