A truly enlightening look at how someone with both their own Funko Pop and Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor rationalizes issues of race and class.
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The Birds 1963
Knowing of The Birds' deeply toxic formation renders it disturbing in a way that is independent of its actual shock content, and also plainly illuminates how Hitchcock is coming undone and being destabilized by Hedren. There are sloppy and silly choices in here that show he's starting to flail as a filmmaker and as a master formalist, though again the wheels wouldn't fully come off til Marnie, perhaps the most nakedly misogynistic Hollywood film ever made, and which shows a…
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Napoleon 2023
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Something worth observing about "late period" Ridley Scott (the start of which can be carbon dated to roughly 2017 AD, though other scholars of Ridley studies may foolishly quibble on the dates) is the distinct manifestation of a fully developed and recognizable auteurial voice and perspective, one that is finally speaking consistently and sustainedly behind the roar of his signature imagery. The clearest illustration of this is to set his flippant, bitchy portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in 2023…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
Less about the "banality of evil" (already a cliche its detractors have tried to reduce it to as some sort of gotcha—even if it were, as if something true is somehow less true because it is "obvious") than it is, like Under the Skin, about watching with a total absence of sentiment the way the superorganism of humanity operates, an endless chain of unthinking exploitation that starts at the top of government and extends all the way down to the…