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The Black Dahlia 2006
waif-like and blind, frail is your body; a conscience redesigned to be childlike and bitter
the gaunt visage you try to hide while walking past mirrors; you have erased yourself
you've learned to hate yourselfkinda destabilizing to try and piece this together because it works on a million different levels, occasionally floating along the lines of verhoeven's explorations of female victimization whilst refusing the playfulness of his depravity. rather than relishing the kinks and easily digested non-politics of the…
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A Dangerous Method 2011
whom we find in winter’s sleep, is saved by Siegfried’s victorious light when he pierces her suit of armour with his sword. in this way she is fertilized. here the process is not called fecundation as in the earth-sun tales; instead, the sword’s thrust represents the actual act of fertilization and a kiss emphasizes its erotic connotation. it is critical that Siegfried, in Brünhilde, impregnates his mother. indeed, Siegfried’s mother is Sieglinde; however, Brünhilde, her sister, loves whomever Sieglinde loves,…
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Char Adhyay 1997
wowww an indian movie that isn't an over the top romance with musical sequences and is less than two hours long that must mean there is absolutely no way i could ever properly unpack this considering it is a postmodern indian film that seeks to become the antithesis of what globally-recognized Indian cinema is, a deconstruction of bollywood films reconstructed into an experimental one. this is what movies are all about
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Licorice Pizza 2021
easily the worst film of the year and maybe the worst i've ever seen? you can tell these people think they're on some bells are ringing in L.A shit but if the neurotic impulses of pure humanity emerging from within minneli's insurmountable filmic senses made the overall plotlessness of his works shine, all that got sucked into a void here and out came this baffling concoction of privilege embracing itself and plasticine relationships that mean everything because they don't have…
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