Charles_Toler

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Favorite films

  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
  • Being There
  • Aftersun
  • Ikiru

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  • The King of Comedy

    ★★★★

  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

    ★★★

  • The Hunger Games

    ★★½

  • Rashomon

    ★★★★

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  • Paterson

    Paterson

    ★★★½

    I liked it. The atmosphere washed over me, and it was pleasant and beautiful in its own way. The power of Poetry can be a great tool in film, and I wish I saw it used more often. The inspiration that the so called mundane can bring to someone, and the beauty derived from that

    But There is an undercurrent of pain and stress that this lifestyle carries, and I'm not sure the filmmakers were entirely conscious of it. At…

  • Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet

    ★★★★★

    I don't understand this. I loved it, however. Love needs to be incredibly powerful, and genuine to match the Evil that is so viscerally portrayed in this movie. It seems to be calling for a love that is more honest about the undercurrent of the world that it too must inhabit. Though that is not to undercut the perverse beauty of the aptly named "lumberville". It is beautiful, but it isn't able to see the human condition the way it…

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