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Hard to Be a God 2013
‘’Creator, if you exist, blow us away. Blow us away like dust or pus. Or leave us in our rot. Destroy us all.’’
Masterpiece. As if a hellish painting of Jheronimus Bosch comes alive. Never have I ever been more sucked into a world this disgusting, gloomy and pessimistic. A world that won’t progress, where intellectuals are being punished, people can barely speak proper and where morals don’t exist.
The story is based on a book by the authors of…
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Birth 2004
‘’Well, I guess I’ll see you in another lifetime’’
Breathtaking psychological drama, without a doubt Glazers best. Beautiful longshots with an autumn looking color platte and a soundtrack by Wagner and Desplat creates this melancholic atmosphere.
The plot is deep, kinda philosophical but also absurd at the same time. There is some subtle humor in it, but it still remains a heavy subject being dark and sad. Also surprisingly there’s quite a lot of suspense, but fortunately Glazer is never tempted to cheap shocks and the plot unfolds very slowly. Kidman is amazing in this. Those grieving, questioning looks she gives us are hypnotically beautiful.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
Kinda on the same level as the first one, although that one was slightly fresher for me. Mainly the focus on more plot here is what annoyed me along some pacing issues in the second act and some cringey jokes. But still, great style, very diverse, colorful; almost pyschedelic and very experimental for being a mainstream film, although animation is the best genre to be suited for experimentation like this.
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Sympathy for the Devil 2023
Yuval Adler understood the assignment; cast Nicolas Cage and give him a crazy ass role. An over the top persona, gangster with red hair, a colt and expensive clothes, what else do you want. The man carries the movie, the plot isn’t anything special, it’s especially Nicolas Cage who is the real ticket to the movie, although it’s a nice extra that the cinematography is nice as well. It’s isn’t impressive enough to gain a cult status but entertaining for sure.
