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The Commitments 1991
Dublin carries the inescapable burden of being a foreign city on an island with a fierce passion for identity. There’s a sense of being the other, Irish but with a caveat. The Dublin of the 80s shows this dichotomy, the streets the young members of the Commitments roam are dilapidated and destitute. They inhabit a city which never wanted them, and offers no jobs and no prospects. Despite the grey dreariness of their situations, optimism and warmth practically hums through…
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Inherent Vice 2014
2 and 1/2 hours of style over substance, which in this case isn’t necessarily a bad thing. What substance is there is multiple loose foggy threads of a plot, which when exposited, comes through incoherent jibberish courtesy of a doped out Joaquin Phoenix, or through ancillary characters accidentally adding layers to an existing mystery which had sunk into the murk of another, larger mystery, etc. There’s cigarettes or cannabis or blow or heroin in every scene. Stars walk in and…
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