βIβll save them all... the whole world.β
A megalomaniacal spiral into madness, and an unforgiving angle into the formation of a genocide: delusions become policies, wildest dreams become living nightmares, men become monsters.
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Inland Empire 2006
Unrateable, and medium shattering.Β
Like huffing the noxious fumes of burning Mullholland Drive celluloids, dissociating from your body and watching yourself have a grand mal seizure on the floor of an eastern European mansion, filmed on an unregistered hypercam 2.
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The Face of Another 1966
βYou're not the only lonely man. Being free always involves being lonely. Just there is a mask you can peel off and another you can not.β
Very interesting that this came out the same year as Frankenheimerβs Seconds (1966). Very interesting indeed. In a way these films encapsulate the changing of the times: post war conservatism and conformity being eroded by the countercultural tidal wave of the 60s and 70s.
Science fiction dreams of starting over; the horror of losing your past entirely.
Another richly textured, architecturally inspired masterpiece from Teshigahara.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
βEverything but everythingβ
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is a prime example of Lynch firing on all cylinders: Horrifying, off-kilter, deranged, unbalanced, inexplicable, devastating and hilarious at times. If itβs a horror film, then the monster is depression, stemming from fractured relationships, impossibly high expectations, and the banality of American life that Twin Peaks so relentlessly satires throughout the showβs runtime. Its also a tragic character study that shatters our assumptionsβ as well as the townβs rosy memoriesβ ofβ¦
