Cute movie. Made me sad. Hits too close to home
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The Brutalist 2024
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The film opens with Laszlo Toth frantically walking forward, pushing through a mass of poor and ailing people and it is not clear where we are: it seems to be dark, and underground, maybe we’re still in the midst of war. But then, the sky above opens up: we see an eternal blue, and in front of it, the Statue of Liberty upside down. Leaving behind the cruelty and shame of Europe in hopes that America will be different, this…
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The Net 1995
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Best accidental B-movie ever. Sandra Bullock plays Angela Bennett, an IT-girl living in a way too big house all alone, ordering pizza online (in the 90s!), and having no character whatsoever. As a hopeless romantic, and just generally plain dumb person, she's hoping to eventually find a man she describes as "butch, beautiful, brilliant, Captain America meets Albert Schweitzer. Spends all day dashing into fray while making world safe for democracy; at night playing Bach cantatas while curing cancer." Like,…
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Thelma & Louise 1991
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Ride or die. These two women effectively liberate themselves from the clutches of the men in their lives, be it those they love or loathe, and from societal constraints. Thrown onto their emancipatory path first by accident, they then deepen their resolve by taking full agency for their actions, as any way forward is better then back. The beautiful New Mexico scenery accompanies their final leg of the journey where, unwilling to give up, they quite literally take the plunge…
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