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The Lives of Others 2006
Twice, the Lives of Others evokes a crushing wheel. It's a line in the same play, written by our protagonist, but with a different audiences. We're reminded, "don't forget who your audience is", but that's a Stasi interrogation. The wheel is about systems.
How do we operate in systems of oppression? Hang on to our humanity? Or try to. Or benefit from cruelty? Or try to. Or die under the wheel? Or stop creating?
I mean...there is a human core…
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Leaving Las Vegas 1995
There is a very good Nichols Cage performance buried in a narrative that is reductive, tonally bizarre, and both too sympathetic and not sympathetic enough for its protagonists.
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The Souvenir 2019
This is a film that has been lived. It's voyeuristic, in the best way. As the viewer, were invited into julie's life. And I believe every moment. I've been at those parties. I've met those people. I've had those conversations. But it's not verite. Joanna Hogg composes the frame with such intention. I don't know why it's not alienating, but it's the opposite. It draws you in, despite the artifice. Maybe because of it.
We all love who we love.
I think this is a remarkable film. Singular. I see part II tomorrow. I cant wait. -
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Spencer 2021
Dianna is trapped, but are we sympathetic? I was. I think she was the worst kind if trapped. The kind where she could probably get out.
The movie invites the film nerd to draw comparisons to other films.
Kubrick most notibly. Bergman. Von Trier. But it's not what it's like that matters, because it's singular in its loneliness. Whatever moments of hope there are are retroactively eliminated by our historical perspective. People will talk of the hopeful ending, but it's an illusion. Tragedy is inevitable.I think this is my favorite movie of the year.
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