The madness of love in wartime meets the sickening irony of armistice wrought from ultimate violence, and absolute suffering. How can we know one another? City to city, face to face, skin to skin. But even at our most intimate, does a tourist ever truly know the places they visit? Does reciting the fact mean you can you still feel the heat scorched into the Pavilion of Peace? Film, like memory, is an attempt to reconstruct, in solid forms, things…
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Oppenheimer 2023
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Do you hear the music, Robert?
A forlorn sonata heralds the twilight of mankind. Out in the desert, at the end of civilization, the wind is rising, then the fire, then the ash. Then the sound. Tuning their strings is an apocalyptic 4000-man orchestra, ready to unleash America's triumphant symphonic masterpiece on the world. Death from above, 1945. Standing tall at the podium are two maestros, looking through the flow of history…
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Key Largo 1948
After the war and before countless more, America is caught in the eye of the storm. Our born heroes are all dead, prohibition is over, the gangsters and newspaper men of old are shoved out of the way, down near Cuba, to focus on the reds and the mounting dread of the Cold War. But down in Florida, deep in the season, a storm is brewing hot enough to scald even those who think they're untouchable. Not only is Huston's single-location caper taught and exciting, it's deeply thoughtful about the state of a windswept, damaged world and those clamoring around in the blow.
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Totally Fucked Up 1993
This movie has post-punk, depression and gay sex, how do you think I feel about it?
