The color pink is strewn across this film like petals of broken flowers, or like all the memories, regrets, and hopes haunting the aging main character. Murray, with his stubbornly stoic form of vulnerability, and Jarmusch, with his gentle and cautiously empathetic camera, paint a portrait of a man not only reckoning with the life he has led, but mourning all the lives he could have led.
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The Florida Project 2017
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One of the most naturalistic depictions of childhood and poverty ever put to screen, so much so the devastating emotional weight becomes too much for even the film itself to bear, at which point we're jarringly and triumphantly whirled into a literal childhood escapist fantasy, a magical realist trip to that looming symbol of idyllic childhood and wealth: Magic Kingdom.
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Burn After Reading 2008
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Every scene in this movie is so over the top, unpredictable, dark, and hilarious, it feels simultaneously like a Coen brothers movie on steroids and a really good parody of a Coen brothers movie. We even have a random, apathetically corrupt high-government official explaining the meaningless of the entire series of events to the viewer at the end. The title not only refers to the the spy plot but the feeling we're supposed to have after watching the movie. It's…
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The Matrix 1999
The Wachowski Sisters, like Plato, Descartes, Nozick, and Putnam before them, find much wisdom in matrices, in ideas of false realities, mental prisons, and systems of control. These thought experiments throughout the history of philosophy have always been the most cinematic in form and here they shine in all their narrative glory. To these stories about metaphysical (what is real?), epistemological (how I do I know what is real?), and moral (should I choose the real?) matrices, the Wachowskis add socio-political…
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