A team of engineers stand below a bridge. Shadows from moving train cars – also being reflected inside a frame within a frame – scurry across the dirt. The camera zooms in and out, panning between them, completely uninterested in masking the motion or change in depth, as they adjust their tripod, taking calculated measurements. 360 panoramic shots circle around them; its detached camera movement initially seems unconcerned with immersion or illusion. “Guess with your eyes,” someone suggests. There’s arguably…
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Columbus 2017
"I don't want to talk. We never talked. He was never interested. Why should I bother now?"
A few weeks before he died, my Korean father lay resting in his UCLA hospital bed. I was sitting in a small chair between him and the window. I could see the 405 freeway, still under construction back then. He turned to me and asked if there was anything I wanted to ask him. We knew at this point he likely had less…
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Mickey 17 2025
Shout out to the woman two seats over from me at who had to say "Aww" loudly anytime anything bad happened to Mickey. So the whole fucking movie.
The material feels very post-Scalzi, but I'd sooner just reread Redshirts or Old Man's War. Problem is that the concept of "printing" and "expendables" the movie supposedly revolves around is barely tapped into at all, having little impact on the main narrative and ideas Bong is tackling here. Pattinson is having a…
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The Sacrifice 1986
"I studied philosophy, history of religion, aesthetics. And ended up putting myself in chains. Of my own free will."
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The 10th Kingdom 2000
You know that feeling when, for better or worse, you watch something seventeen years after its original air date that makes you realize it's possibly the most informative and important piece of fiction you were exposed to as a child?
Well... neither did I before yesterday...
Virginia: "I have a hard time trusting people. I just never wanna jump unless I'm sure somebody's gonna catch me."
Wolf: "Oh, I'll catch you. And if I miss for any reason, I'll sit by your bedside and nurse you back to health.
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