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Drive 2011
One of the best looking movies of the 2010s, and far more moving and lonely than its tough guy exterior lets on. There’s a near-perfect trilogy of movies about Ryan Gosling as a fairly terrible guy driving around L.A. and deciding to do one good thing with his life in the only way he knows how: killing people and protecting a nice lady (this + Blade Runner 2049 + Nice Guys).
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Rain Man 1988
This movie’s cultural role as an artifact for expanding social consciousness surrounding autism is perplexing, especially considering the film’s muddled conflation of autism and savant syndrome, which certainly didn’t do any favors for the perception of either condition. I’m not sure what to make of this article, but I think it’s worth a read — it seems that the screenwriter was far from informed about the subject matter that his film has come to be defined by. And if footage of…