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Él 1953
The scene in which Francisco’s mental illness reaches a crescendo in a black mass of his own demonically-influenced imagination — his fellow Catholics in the pews and his beloved priest friend on the altar becoming imps sporadically in jump cuts — gave a darker, more painful resonance to the knowing laughter of the audience of which I too was a laughing member. This scene and the concluding chapter of the film with Francisco now living the ambivalences of monastic life,…
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A History of Violence 2005
The usual Cronenbergian softcore shoddiness predominates but some scenes in particular stand out.
The argument between Tom/Joey and Edie that turns physical on the stairs of their pastoral home. In that scene, Cronenberg rubs the viewers nose in the obscene ferociousness of sex. Watching the two characters on-screen, the viewer is worried the two's kids will come home to see them there and yet lost with them in their shameless lack of concern for anything other than the purity of…
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Nosferatu 2024
The unconscious and the angelic powers seem to synthesize in “Nosferatu” to powerful aesthetic effect. My favorite example of this is the scene in which Ellen confesses to her husband that the demon’s presence in their lives is rooted in her spiritual and sexual molestation as a child. The scene is genius because of the two layers which coexist in perfect unity within it. At once, it is a kammerspiel drama about guilt and infidelity, and yet also the playing…
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Blonde 2022
What a punishing, bold, unique film. A true horror picture, one of the more genuinely scary films I've ever seen. I had to keep my distance somewhat because of the fear, pain, and guilt that watching this forced in me. Towards the end, I really felt like I was being stretched on the rack with Norma. The nightmare -- an MK ultra swirl that Dominik shoves one into --- has a transcendental quality. As with Norma on screen, the accumulation…
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