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The Last Duel 2021
comparing this to rashomon is very misguided because unlike rashomon this is good.
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A History of Violence 2005
allure of violence forming out of suburbia constricting safe outlets to emotionally and socially express the death drive.
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The Last Temptation of Christ 1988
schrader and scorsese working together is interesting because schrader's calvinist sense of meaning as something that only comes through the pain of acknowledging one's predetermined sinfulness combined with scorsese's darwinism creates a pair of sensibilities that in tandem glorify self-harm to the point where it gets posited as a divine pathway to spiritual exhaltation. to me tapping into this mindset and seeing how scorsese/schrader use conventional moralisms to snake around the implications of that belief is interesting. i wouldn't necessarily object to anybody calling it unacceptably offensive, however. i wonder how many times paul schrader has thought about killing himself.
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The Commuter 2018
a good movie is just cutting, a loud and suspenseful score, and liam neeson playing a decent common man trying to navigate his way of a tricky situation.
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