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eXistenZ 1999
it was reality bleeding through: not reality for everyone, but the particular reality of the couples, breeding through the game. Although the final layer of reality was very short as a final plot twist sequence, it actually implies what is underneath, what is unsaid about the couple’s relationship. It is unsaid because it is the forbidden game of eXistenZ, plugged into both of them, shown in front of our eyes. The unsaid obscenity in this story really cracks me up.…
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Lady in Cement 1968
Frank Sinatra and his misogynistic one-liners were weirdly familiar
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Four Nights of a Dreamer 1971
In any case this film is nothing like a Dostoevsky novel. Similar to what Bresson did in Pickpockets (a reinterpretation of crime and punishment)
In the sense that Dostoevsky is about radical love, which is not really about sexual desires as such. Here in the film it is still very much love in a vulgar sense. It is about FALLING in (and out of) love, not love in its totality.
The Dostoevsky sense of love was mentioned by Marthe the…
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Hotel Mokum 2024
In the film the monologue said: “For a moment we thought we owned the building forever”, which is a very valid point. This moment of radical imagination should not be trivialized as a daydream. If everyone stops paying rent tomorrow, we might really end up owning all buildings. A daydream as such will be actualized once it becomes collective.
Wish there were more these moments, rather than generalized claims
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