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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair 2006
For those who are just getting to know this movie, there is a volume 1 and a volume 2. This particular review concerns both volumes — or parts, semantics.
Kill Bill is characterized heavily by its peculiar martial arts scenes that pay tribute to many Shaw Brother’s Studio movies, which Tarantino masterfully pairs with emblematic themes like Ironside by Quincy Jones and
Both movies are quite rich in historical context and influenced: from its inconspicuous spaghetti Western theme, to more…
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Akira 1988
Unbeknownst to me when I watched this movie, it has a deep cultural significance to Western culture. This is a movie that transcended geographical and historic boundaries.
It is mostly praised for its aesthetics than its plot, it is likely that the overall arching story inspired movies like Lucy, where our human abilities transcended any known boundary by man.
It’s characters also served as a base-model to develop characters with added layers. A captivating example of this can be the colonel, which, perhaps a bit farfetched, might have set the stage for legendary characters like General Ross, from ‘The Hulk’, or Colonel Miles, from ‘Avatar’
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology 2012
Another one that is not for everybody. This isn’t a film so much, as to a documentary: philosophical, historical and social critique narrated and created by an Eminence of Philosophy of the 21st century.
I particularly enjoyed it’s many observations made through the lens of cinematic history and history itself.
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