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The story of a man who learns that while ripping throats is an answer, it’s not the answer.
Very much a “vibes” movies, but I love how with this and Near Dark (and to some extent other films in her filmography) Bigelow explores how danger and allure mix together, but that also the home front is no guarantee of safety.
Also, the sheer smolder of Dafoe here. My guy does not miss.
Maybe it’s because when you’re Jewish you tend to learn about the Holocaust at a younger age and you keep learning more as life goes on, and maybe Glazer is trying to reach a gentile audience that can’t grasp the banality of evil without seeing it play out. But for me, the banality of evil is the only way to understand such atrocities, and depicting that banality for 100 minutes doesn’t add anything beyond Arendt’s famous and straightforward assessment of…
Marvel has lost it. Films like Doctor Strange and Iron Man 2 now look like bastions of competence next to stuff like this because as weak as those films are, they still try to have a character arc for their protagonist where the adventure changes his outlook. Everyone in this movie is the same at the end as they are in the beginning. There’s not an ounce of character development or even a challenge to a character’s personality. It is…