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Here 2024
Years back I read an incredible book called All the Light We Cannot See. While memory fails me the exact words and details, there is a passage in the novel that describes the life of an object and the impact of this life on its history. A passage so profound that it is one of the only that has stuck with me for so long, it posits that an object develops meaning and history through every eye that it has…
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Revelations 2025
A very enjoyable film with a lot of creative ideas on how to portray how one can be misled by god and their faith. Had the second act been a little tighter, this could have gone on to be a very great film.
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The Brutalist 2024
Awe-inspiring, monumental, impossible. The grandeur of a modern day classic. Not just a singular portrait painted, but rather an installation, a museum, a repository, erected for the figures behind post-war perspectives, and prospective shortcomings. Genre recontextualizing, The Brutalist is a tremendous disposition of towering narratives delivered with the weight of a persisting, nauseating anxiety. Phenomenal performances from a generational cast and creative personnel, paired with admirable ambition, elevate this saga into the territories of a celebration, the cacophony ultimately subdued…
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Burning 2018
Jong-su is someone living on the fringe, literally and figuratively. He balances a childhood home that is shrouded in propaganda from the north, with the constant reminder that he is standing on the outside looking in; he is just a man without the answers.
Meeting Hae-mi for the first time in years, the first thing we learn is that she is no longer the same person that he knew back when he was younger. She recites a story where Jong-su…
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