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The Wild Bunch 1969
“He gave his word!!”
”That’s not what counts!! It’s who you give it to!!”Senseless, gratuitous violence without sentimentality. But sentiments are the enemy of ethics, and this movie is very concerned about ethics.
Outlaws may be free, but those motivated by their basest desires will always be reliable pawns for the regimes of power, and so the usual Western battle between Good and Evil is here replaced by the much less inspiring battle between Capital and Autocracy. The film…
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Kajillionaire 2020
One critique of contemporary mainstream cinema is that movies of the current era cannot or will not depict desire. Superhero blockbusters lack any real emotional depth or deeper motivation. 80s reboots lack the gritty pathos that defined the originals. Even auteur films such as Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster or David Lowery’s Green Knight left me cold due to their shallow depiction of human love and desire.
Miranda July is frequently derided by critics as being a quirky New Age performance…
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Adaptation. 2002
This really holds up. Great performances, undeniably relatable self-loathing, fun story structure, hilarious observations on the film form and life itself. Insanely self-conscious. Must have taken guts to hand in this script.
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