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Boyhood 2014
Time is the core around which all of this movie's musings about childhood and parenthood are woven. Characters travel without consciously realizing that they are on individual journeys that all have the same ending. If life is "about" anything, it's about realizing and accepting that fact: that everything is fleeting. Time gives birth and nourishes and then obliterates as it moves ahead, like the family which, in an early scene, prepares to move out of a house by covering murals…
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The Tree of Life 2011
The Tree of Life is the best film I've ever seen, and the margin between it and the rest widens with every repeat viewing. It's boundlessly evocative; an unreal artistic assemblage that reveals itself to be a different experience with each and every exposure. Almost impossible to talk about also, without sounding wildly subjective, ostentatious and hyperbolic. But how else do you begin to consider a film that encompasses the birth of the universe and it's fiery death? The most…
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Blade Runner 1982
There’s no film like Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and I don’t think there’ll ever be one like it. It’s one of the most influential sci-fi films, one that penetrates the upper echelon of the genre with such perspective and unnerving truth about our own existicence. Although the film’s plot is admiteddly simple, the movie posses weighty themes about what it means to be human. What is the meaning to life? What makes existence significant rather then inconsequential? The questions represented…
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Magnolia 1999
A true epic of emotion and profound human drama; Magnolia is a movie full of broken, lonely and lost people trying to move on from trauma and weakness, struggling to seize control over their own lives. I love the messiness here, you can really feel Anderson's sincerity in each and every idea, line of dialogue or flourish he stuffs into this movie. There's so much passion infused into every moment, and PTA works magic in maintaining the high levels of…
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