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Kidnapped 2023
Some initial notes:
_ In an emblematic scene, the eldest of the Mortara siblings (now a revolutionary soldier) “invades” one of the Vatican churches to save his younger brother, but Edgardo (converted and, for more than a decade, separated from his family) resists that reversed “kidnapping” attempt.
It's interesting to note that when the Catholic church loses its political power, its members see themselves as some kind of “persecuted minority”: it seems to be at this precise point that young…Translated from by -
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023
It doesn't seem like a mere coincidence the fact that this prequel — in which social revolution is nothing but a vague spectre put out of frame (let's remember the rebels responsible for the explosion don't even have a face) — gets to be, chronologically speaking, the latest realease in the Hunger Games universe:
we live a historical moment in which political revolution seems way out of reach and we can barely survive the simulacrum we crafted as a way…Translated from by
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Doppelgänger 2012
O Corpo e o Trabalho
A relação entre corpo e trabalho implica certo desgaste.
“O Duplo” parece surgir justamente como uma alegoria do momento histórico em que essa relação atingiria seu ponto mais crítico e insustentável.O trabalho aqui parece algo delicado, difícil de ser verbalizado. De todas as vezes em que a professora fala sobre suas atividades, nenhuma deixa de ser truncada em suas palavras, atrapalhada pelo barulho de uma colega ou por um súbito desmaio. O corpo da…
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The Days Between 2001
The subtleties of its themes:
_ The fish trapped inside a small aquarium (the swimmer boyfriend perfecting his skills under water, the small apartments with huge windows, the lonely fish inside a plastic bag Lynn gives her nephews, the various scenes inside a bathtub);
_ The fish out of water (standing by the city font, Lynn's childhood memories of her fish as the only thing she could talk to, feeling left-out of life and kicked out of her brother's apartment);…Translated from by
