The movie would be more accurately named "Ford v Itself," or maybe "Ford v Its Own Corporate Bureaucracy," or "Two dudes working for Ford who really know their shit v Ford's bone headed executives." Ford V Ferrari is a celebration of some expired American things a lot of us have nostalgia for: hard work, bad ass engines, good ole American ingenuity. There is a certainty those things will prevail if all the other stuff will just stay the hell out…
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Yesterday 2019
At the moment it occurs to Jack his friends no longer know what the Beatles are, I was hit with thoughts of how much certain art lives within us, regardless of our individual investment. I like the Beatles just great and think they are one of the important rock bands in history, but I never looked at what it'd be like to know they're gone and no one else know in this way Danny Boyle gives us in Yesterday.
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Fast Food Nation 2006
A movie that probably felt a lot more poignant when it came out in 2006. Viewed in 2015 it's pretty much ever other facebook post from your friends that only talk about GMOs and human trafficking. The issues certainly deserve attention, but Fast Food Nation, nearly a decade later suffers from preaching to us about something I am now all too familiar with. Yes, migrant workers are exploited and used so we can get cheap products. Yes, fast food generally…
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Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
A meditation on human pain and human selfishness. A movie about how our deepest hopes may go unfulfilled. A movie about how those realizations lead to humans passing that pain on to other people and to a donkey.
Au Hasard Balthazar follows the timeline during the life of a donkey, Balthazar. We get moments of hopefulness, moments of starting over. Then we get disappointment. Rinse and repeat. Balthazar is passed around. At times he is loved, at times he is…
