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  Shockproof 1949

  ★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I had a great time with this, but it is a total mess.

  This is my first Douglas Sirk (I know, leave me alone, we all have blind spots!) and what a weird one to start with. I adore the pulpy, almost tacky quality Samuel Fuller brings with his script, but the film drives off a cliff halfway through and ends with a laughably pat button. The kind of "and it was all a big misunderstanding" ending that feels like…

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  The Wandering Soap Opera 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  This is my Twin Peaks.

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  I’m being facetious. This only bears a superficial resemblance to Twin Peaks, in that it takes the form and tone of a highly stylised tragicomic pastiche of soap operas, which slowly becomes more surreal, disturbing and uncanny as the runtime unfolds.

  In actuality, this reminded me more of Elia Suleiman‘s Divine Intervention, in that it comprises a series of interconnected, satirical, absurdist sketches with specific sociopolitical references. Unfortunately, although I know more about the recent…

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★ Watched 25 Feb 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Subject 2022

  ★★ Watched 27 Feb 2023

  I don’t mean to be rude because I’m glad someone is asking these questions, but this is a very basic, 101 dissection of the ethics of documentary filmmaking that will maybe only be enlightening to people who’ve literally never engaged with these issues before.

  I also find it insanely disappointing that although this film asks myriad difficult questions on the ethics of documenting someone else’s life for art or profit, the answers to those questions are not depicted in the…

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