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Memories of Underdevelopment 1968
Self-hating/self-isolating rich guy cringes at the backwardness and meaninglessness of his surroundings while pushing away anybody that can bring meaning to his life. Dime a dozen.
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The Wild Pear Tree 2018
A movie about accepting reality and rejecting idealism. Not in a base utilitarian way, but in a way that appreciates the beauty in the imperfections and failures of life. If there is a greater truth out there, it is not arrived at by divorcing yourself from the world and material constraints; transcendence is through accepting things as they are. No one's reality is more true than another's.
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Oppenheimer 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
For a 3-hour movie, the answer should have been clear as to why Oppenheimer changed his mind on the atom bomb. The movie introduces nuance into his legacy by showing how he was entrapped by the military-industrial complex and used as a prize cow in his later years, but it counteracts that nuanced portrayal with a stock villain in the form of RDJ's character - a character whose motive for hating Oppenheimer is brushed past and insubstantial. His Scooby-Doo villain-esque…
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