This is a film whose viewing, I believe, is enhanced by some extra-textual information (which is the case for a lot of films, it is a different but interesting story whether this is something to be shunned or not but I will not get into that here). This first piece of extra-textual information is that Pasolini's father was a lieutenant in the Italian army. This immediately connects the father in the opening sequence of the film to Pasolini's real father…
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Encounters at the End of the World 2007
My goodness how incredible! Herzog goes to one of the most beautiful places in the world and turns the camera onto the people studying it, like the camera studying them. A sort've meta commentary on the experience of existing in a world independent of you (which is easy to forget in a city but hard to not notice in a place like Antartica). And how grateful I am to Herzog for doing so because of course every soul residing there…
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Late Spring 1949
In Late Spring, Noriko operartes as the negative Oedipus, not just because she is in love with her Father and her Mother is the dead one but because she does not know the truth (and does not seek it out) unlike Oedipus whose perpetual desire for the truth, first in solving the Sphinx's riddle and later in discovering the truth of his origins, is so extreme that it leads to his demise. It is Oedipus search for truth which moves…
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Dog Day Afternoon 1975
A great film that drags at times, mainly because of the sedentary setting, but leaves you with a lot to think about and that's all I really want in a movie.
It's worth paying attention to how Lumet frames Sonny and Agent Sheldon. Sonny is always filmed from above and usually always blocked by an object: the door being the most common. Sheldon is filmed almost always from below, a towering figure who contrasts the weak Sonny. Perhaps Lumet's usage…