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Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
"The films were as authentic as possible. The illusion quite simply so perfect that tourists weep. One can always scoff, but what else can a tourist do but weep?"
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Stree 2 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The more I reflect on this film the more I hate it.
Okay.
Okay, the film is almost parodic? I mean the lengths it goes to not even hide the fact that it has only been made to make money almost makes me feel like it is a social experiment of sorts. Maybe the film is entirely anticapitalist and the absurdity it devolves into - fitting as many big-name cameos as possible (at the expense of the coherence of the…Translated from by
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Beau Travail 1999
"This new object is the natural body, the bearer of forces and the seat of duration; it is the body susceptible to specified operations, which have their order, their stages, their internal conditions, their constituent elements. In becoming the target for new mechanisms of power, the body is offered up to new forms of knowledge. It is the body of exercise, rather than of speculative physics; a body manipulated by authority... a body of useful training"
- Discipline and Punish by Michel of Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan.
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