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Rear Window 1954
While Rear Window shares many thematic similarities with Hitchcock’s later work of Vertigo, the movies have major differences in tone and style, in some ways furthered by the plot and mood of the stories, but more so differing on a more basic level. Hitchcock still has a disabled protagonist and an attractive blond woman who pines for him (although there is only one in this case), but the dynamics are shifted wildly. Rather than have James Stewart play a character…
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Eraserhead 1977
Behind all the grotesque imagery of Eraserhead lies a remarkably simply premise. Henry is a lonely and socially awkward man who finds difficulty in taking control of his life, constantly pining for his beautiful neighbor while he is trapped with a hopeless marriage and an unwanted child. The film reveals Henry’s relationship with the world without the use of sound already – it is very clearly showed how little power he has over the world and how he is often…
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Watchmen 2009
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Watchmen, although adapted from a comic book with the intent to parody the modern conventions in comics and their stories at its time, in some ways needed to utilize digital technology, as do most other movies about superheroes, but this does not necessarily mean that the film was limited by adopting more modern techniques. Watchmen is a criticism of the idea of super heroes and their place in an increasingly globalized and utilitarian world where people no longer require extraordinarily…
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Man with a Movie Camera 1929
The overall purpose of The Man With a Movie Camera was in part to create a coherent narrative, but it was less about developing a complete story with a beginning and end, but rather to introduce a concept and express it through a mixture of sound and footage to strike and intended effect. The premise of the movie gives little way to creating a full story, but the footage was enough so as to show the usage of music and…
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