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  • Elle

    Elle 2016

    ★★★★ Watched 11 Oct, 2018

    Undeniably magnetic and disturbing. Verhoeven’s vision of humanity is pretty base as everyone is conniving, pathological or doltish.  I’d say the world is almost Haneke-ish but with a sledgehammer. 
    The twists at the end are pretty flawed unfortunately.

  • How Videogames Changed the World

    How Videogames Changed the World 2013

    ★★★½ Watched 08 Oct, 2018

    So very watchable mr Brooker. Filled with wit and insight.

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  • Enemy

    Enemy 2013

    ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar, 2014 2

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Is this a Rust Cohle flat circle or another Lost Highway?

    There's so much going on here and it's difficult to decipher. Here we are in this tale - with doppelgangers, voyeurism, sexual deviance, unremembered pasts, cyclical histories doomed to repeat...

    We are in chaos it seems.
    From the opening title card about 'Chaos being undeciphered order', through all the backdrop chalk sketches on Adam's chalkboard. It's because we're in it - that we don't understand it.

    Another theme here…

  • Only God Forgives

    Only God Forgives 2013

    ★★★½ Watched 06 Feb, 2014 2

    I'm surprised I liked it given the general consensus that this film was a bust.

    It's just got a different tone - it's own tone. And that kind of thing can turn some people off. This film bathes itself in it's own mood, in it's own juices, in it's own blood - and as such, it's obviously very self obsessed and overdone - but that's not a bad thing. I respect that the film is it's own trip - with…

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