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American Fiction 2023
Missed opportunity, they had a chance to release a movie simply called Fuck, and they chickened out...
I don't know, the whole movie feels a bit contradictory. Like, we've seen this take before, people being worn down by the pressures of performative art. A writer is fed up and accidentally wins over an audience. He writes a book he thinks no one will like because it's SO over the top...Except this movie feels incredibly, "under the top".
Even the title,…
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Asteroid City 2023
It looks like I forgot to log this film but just fyi, I've seen this four times now. Not because I think it's Anderson's best (I do think it's one of his better films), but because it brings me an overwhelming sense of comfort.
All of Anderson's films have a "coziness" about them. But with Asteroid City, we're a few steps removed from reality. And for some reason that gave me an incredible sense of comfort. I think subconsciously, I…
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Come and See 1985
Jesus Christ. On second thought, let's not send 13 year olds to war.
This is one of the most powerful war films I've ever seen. I've had a pretty great upbringing thus far in life and I've never personally experienced an atrocity so it's hard to relate or make judgements on how this compares to the real thing. Some movies do a good job of capturing what war can be like. From what I read, films like Saving Private Ryan,…
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Birth 2004
The next Stanley Kubrick? I don't think we'll ever get another Kubrick...But I do think I'm okay with having a Jonathan Glazer.
Glazer is an extremely visual director. In that regard, he is very similar to Kubrick. Every sequence is more focused on the frame than what is going on inside of it. Without context, every shot can be pulled out and it's art. The story is forced to work around the frame and the movie pulls much of it's…