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  Blow 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Nov 2024

  Life passes most people by, while they are making grand plans for it.

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  Jackie Brown 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Nov 2024

  Getting old is the main theme, which sounds crazy considering you watch this movie and feel the youth vibe and adrenaline.

  The characters are attached to their old lifestyles. Max Cherry is tired of his life herding these criminals around, yet he wants a taste of that lavish criminal life that makes him feel young.

  “Are you afraid of getting old?” Jackie asks Max. Louis can’t even stand a hit of a bong, coughing and saying, “I’m just getting old,.…

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  The Tale of The Princess Kaguya 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2022 1

  The tale of Princess Kaguya is a universal statement about desire, a reminder of the things aspirational societies too soon forget. In no way is this movie a feministic statement, because the question of desire surpasses any gender differences.

  This tale affects us not only because it ends bad, but because it confronts us with this question of desire: Do we follow our own desire? Do we follow the desire of the other? Or would we rather have no desire…

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  The Wind Rises 2013

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Aug 2022

  IL SOGNO ACCECA

  Lo aveva sempre saputo e lo aveva ignorato? O il suo sogno lo aveva assorbito tanto da fargli dimenticare il fine ultimo di quelle macchine.

  CRITICA MORALE E NEGLIGENZA

  L’atteggiamento negativo di una parte di critica è ben riassunto nell’articolo di Inkoo Kang per il Village Voice , dove la giornalista afferma che Si alza il vento è “moralmente ripugnante” e “Sintomatico dell’atteggiamento post-bellico del Giappone nei confronti della propria storia: un’accettazione totale degli orrori della guerra…

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