Works as a sort of sibling film to Ghost in a way. But this time, Ito is less interested in how spaces seem to us to physically reproduce their past inhabitants, and more in how that sense is limited and decays over time. Ito’s document of father-son bonding is deliberately obscure; an approximation of unattainable tactility. Nostalgic but revealingly bittersweet.
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The Devil's Rejects 2005
Leave it to Rob Zombie to give us a manic, gory cop revenge movie that treats its protagonist like the serial killer he’s built to be. If 1000 Corpses is a deep-dive into America’s working class fetishization in spite of the actual American dream of wealth, Rejects shows us the violent resolution of this hypocrisy. The colorful, dizzying escape of the circus ends with a step back into a harsh reality.
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