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The Exterminating Angel 1962
an interesting mental exercise at least. the social pretensions of the polite, respectable, dignified, noble bourgeois keep them from exiting a room to the point of starvation, psychosis, and death. hilarious
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Coup D'etat: The Philippines Revolt 1986
eerie to see virtually no placards or flags other than the liberal v marcos hand-signs and emblems in the air.
the nostalgia of edsa is at the very least worth this: bourgeois-democracy has run its course. the counterrevolution has won, in the name of the people.
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City of God 2002
the lumpenproletariat; the passively rotting mass, the "social scum", the cohort of starving men divorced from tribe and clan, the wretched of the earth— the human rabble, so to say, of bourgeois society.
something is terribly wrong at the reviews talking about the form, camera-work, cinematography, &c., and little to no attention on the content. the raw human material, pauperized, hyper-exploited, displaced, breathing and drinking opioid, which made this voyeur possible in the first place. nonetheless, what a flawless picture. im conflicted on how to feel about this immediately becoming one of my favorite films to date.
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Cabaret 1972
you werent meant to see it— not the posters glued onto the walls, the swastikas flying in the air, the red arm-bands of uniformed men, the retreat-crowd in chorus, talks of jewish bankers and communists in organized cospiracy— none of it. these were instances of the spectacle breaking down in real time, unable to keep your eyes away. the real forces itself onto you and you could not for the life of you care less. moments where signs of a…
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