The hilariously grim story of a man who is used as a vessel in a Biblical battle of good and evil to unleash and sustain the presence of evil in a crumbling and increasingly damaged hellscape waiting to be destroyed. At least that's how I interpret it on a second watch.
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Fat Girl 2001
Good movie, even if the last 20 minutes were a letdown. Very disgusting and ugly cinematography that's used to frame a very disgusting and ugly coming-of-age story that takes after movies like Mike Leigh's Naked, and which is heavily informed by the third wave feminism that was big in France at the time, as it centers all around the contradictory and immensely toxic pressures of women and how women are taught to lean their self-worth on how they sexually appeal…
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Audition 1999
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The wide shots in the first half or so are framed beautifully, and I love how Miike uses these browns and whites to frame the somewhat banal seaside settings of the offices, taverns and houses that the characters dwell in to hammer home this sort of soothing yet eerie environment of old wealth and privilege that these characters inhabit. I feel like the way the shots are arranged, as well as the somewhat eerily shot and ominous melodrama unfolding in…
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Onibaba 1964
A really beautiful and disgusting film that I highly recommend. The sound design is absolutely immaculate, with the gorgeous cinemtography showing these reeds of grass blowing in the wind and intermingling with one another, creating this thorny and bloody maze for the characters to navigate, and yet it's completely devoid of sound. The only thing we ever hear is the actions and movement of the characters. Everything that makes sound is constructed by the characters, no natural background sound is…
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