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Few things have ever been as dangerously potent as the promise of the American dream.
We tell ourselves that life isn’t fair, and more often than not we’re right. But so often the same people that internalize the thought – latch on to the decree, flailing for meaning in their own cruelty – never truly believe that things could ever go wrong for themselves.
Because things will go wrong, make no mistake, but the dream of America – the individual…
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“‘The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next’” (Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness).
Conclave is a beautiful film about resilience in the failure of uncertainty, and the triumph of good things despite the coldness apparent everywhere.
This is one of the more cinematically beautiful films I’ve seen recently. Berger does a fantastic job of capturing the coldness of such a historic institution as the Catholic church. Now in…
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Through Blue Velvet, it feels as if David Lynch is expressing his dismay at a universe whose axis is not aligned with the core value of moral goodness. A universe, instead, where power and status manifests in the ability to commit depraved actions, unreservedly and without regret or concern for the human beings negatively affected.
Cutting through the surreal noise, the jarring cuts, time-skips and straight-played, black-comedy narrative, Lynch asks a simple question of the audience, through Jeffrey: Why do…
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“Let it burn. Let it burn.”
Sean Baker has an incredible talent for giving a voice to the voiceless; for humanizing the dehumanized. The Florida Project is no exception.
Baker gives us insight into a community of the forgotten. We are introduced to individuals who came to the promised land, looking for the American dream, now trapped in the claws of a predatory, exploitative system, alongside the carefree few who know – and perhaps would like – nothing else. A…
