I think there must be something wrong with the version I watched - I didn’t see a single shot of anyone snorting cocaine??
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Empire of the Sun 1987
Watching this movie gave me flashbacks to sitting through other big 80s historical epics at school - I remember classes where we watched not just perennial Australian classroom favourite Gallipoli, but Ghandi, Chariots of Fire, The Killing Fields, and this one about a Japanese POW camp whose title I do not remember. My memory of watching these films was that even if I was sort of interested in the content, I only ever kind of knew what was going on,…
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Perfect Days 2023
I’ve seen a lot of reviews of this that say this is a film celebrating the virtues of a meditative approach to life; noticing the small things, celebrating the everyday and the routine. But Perfect Days goes beyond that with the hints we get of other aspects of Hirayama’s life; while Wenders is not going for a full-on interrogation of this guy’s life choices, he raises the question of what makes him so committed to this simple way of living.…
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Civil War 2024
I found this discourse around this film - with people being mad that the film does not map on to real-world politics - strange. It came across as people demanding the movie reflect what its audience already thinks. Sidestepping the obvious political divides seemed like a more interesting choice from Garland.
Having now seen it, I haven’t changed my view, but this movie is certainly missing something. I don’t think that thing is an explanation of the war’s causes and…
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