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Ghost in the Shell 1995
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I love anything involving bodies in a hypercapitalist system, the nature of sentience, body horror… and the aesthetic is super inspiring.
However I truly hate tactical male gaze stuff. Like does she really have to be naked to camouflage. Just be honest and admit nah she is naked bc it would be hot, why is it like 🤓☝️she is naked for maximal use of her thermal camouflage. Imagine if batou was buttass naked and instead of kusanagis boobs being majestically…
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In the Mood for Love 2000
Really beautiful cinematography/color-grading. I feel like maybe Wkw just isn’t quite for me. I can see what the point of his work is; to paint the impression of a feeling or emotion. The split compositions and reflection-in-reflections, slow motion/low framerate shots, the actors’ longing stares and repetitive scenes all coagulate together to create a blurry sense of longing, desire, loneliness. A political context that creates additional tension or urgency. Emotional blueballing. It’s very successful in what it wants to do and…
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A Touch of Fever 1993
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Oh my god. The last big scene was so deliberately uncomfortable. The handheld camera really fucked me up. Apparently some reviews of this film call it overly depressing, but I’d argue otherwise. It’s true to what it’s like when you leave so many important parts of yourself unspoken; a bitter, dramatic irony pervades daily life.
Some of the conversations in this one really got to me, the man talking about how he wanted a son, Tatsuro’s dad calling, the depressingly…
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The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe 2023
I’m not sure what I expected but it just had a lot more heavy material than I thought it would. I found the weird fucked up trauma more intense than the actual horror aspects.
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