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Perfect Days 2023
“Worlds within worlds.”
We often don’t think about public workers. Silently completing their thankless duties as we drive or walk by without ever glancing towards them. We all occupy our own worlds, worlds with their own narratives. A friend of mine once said he loved being a journalist because “everyone has a story.”
Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) is an unassuming man with a scheduled life. His mornings are usually the same. We know very little about him until he dons his…
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Poor Things 2023
I half expected this movie to be a serious period piece (I didn’t even watch a trailer. Only the large billboards dotting the LA skyline were my only exposure to the film prior to viewing). Upon watching the first few frames, I sat up and thought “Ok, this is going to be a real movie.”
Of course the first thing that comes to mind is the novel Frankenstein, but an inverse. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) looks like a monster with…
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Man on Fire 2004
I remember first seeing a picture of Man on Fire in a theater when I was about 11. The striking image of Denzel Washington stoically protecting a helpless Dakota Fanning while fire and smoke fill the background.
Washington plays an ex-CIA operative turned jaded alcoholic. He is battling self loathing and visits his friend and former teammate Rayburn (Christopher Walken) in Mexico. Rayburn is the opposite of Creasy by finding love and setting down in Mexico. Rayburn recognizes Creasy needing…
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Sicario 2015
I remember watching this years go and not understanding anything (I probably wasn’t paying attention).
I saw that it was on Prime and being familiar with the works of the dream team (Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins) I decided to give Sicario another shot.
I absolutely love the parallels between this movie and Silence of the Lambs. Both protagonists are by the book FBI agents (yes, Clarice is still in training whatever) whose naïveté is used against them by brawny…
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