The Castle of Cagliostro is probably Miyazaki’s most academic work, and definitely his most claustrophobic—a lot of his later movies are remarkable mainly for how vast and evocative they are, even the “lesser” ones, while Cagliostro is miniaturized to a bizarre degree and you never get any sense of place at all outside of the castle—and the effect of this is weirdly internal, like Miyazaki using the act of animating his debut to work through what it means to make movies…
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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 2011
Kind of absurd how much of this movie is hrithik roshan aura farming
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The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967
A quick note - the thing about Rochefort is that it is really ethically negligent and also sort of evil in exactly the same way that I am, personally, and so its use of hyperbole to make its stupidly-contrived thought experiment emotionally intuitive might not work quite as well for everyone. I could go so long on this movie but at the end of the day I approach it with grace and curiosity because it reminds me of me.
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt 2010
The male gaze refracted back through the female gaze. Revolutionary sleaze.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion 2013
Rebellion finds the subtle gap between the journey of self-discovery towards a true/hidden identity and the actual, physical expression of that identity—desire—and it burrows into it with fragments of body horror and alienating compositions and repetitions ever so slightly mutated. All of this is in service of investigating the cracks of Homura’s psyche and how idealized love for an other (God in this specific case) can manifest as both Christ-like and Satanic within the same human mind, wavering between extremes of emotion…
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