As some video games become more like movies, I guess some movies are becoming more like video games? I don't mean it as a criticism, but it does have an effect—it provides a boundary we can rely on that keeps us at enough of a remove to make the horrors we're witnessing watchable. I kept thinking of Come and See in comparison—a movie that doesn't allow us any distance, rendering the movie a lot more similar to what (I can only imagine) experiencing actual war is like, but a lot less watchable.
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Hercules in the Haunted World 1961
Perfect party visuals or to put on and talk over.
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The Devil Wears Prada 2006
This movie is a lot more bleak than it means to be - you have to be a slave to get anywhere in your career. Give up your humanity. As a woman, you have to have sex appeal to get anywhere. Women have to work ten times as hard as men to be successful, and betray their friends, and no man will stick around. I mean, there’s truth to these things, but I don’t think it’s the tone the movie…
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Cameraperson 2016
Funny, awkward, and profound moments strung together by themes of humanity. No narration, narrative, or exposition needed. It’s amazing that they form such a fully realized memoir. But after all, isn’t that exactly how we remember our lives?
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