if young Haruki Murakami had turned director instead of writer this would be the film.
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Fe 1994
earth, flowers and a stone are placed on top of a broken plastic toy. the grave is amongst the remains of an abandoned factory; a monolith of steel and iron, rising up to the skies. spheric devotional music accentuates the importance of the scene even further. the old man runs his fingers over the cold walls of the manmade tower.
"It is like the scales of a reptile, or the bark of a tree."
nature and industry are the main…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Scorsese keeps doing that thing where he tells a story and lets the characters talk talk talk without giving them much of a personality or a back story. being a sucker for slice of life cinema I keep wondering what that monstrous throng of (mostly) old men in suits do apart from talking, hustling and killing with their lives in Scorsese's films. amidst the never-ending entrance and exit of various characters there remains no time to construct any depth, which…
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One Win 2023
you know where you're at when the director states after the premiere that the sound design was not good and that it was his (first and) last attempt at a sports film, because he is not satisfied with the outcome.
yes, there's an absolutely stunning scene which was choreographed for two months, but the real shortcomins lie in the poor character development and missing emotional engagement.
