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Gone with the Wind 1939
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Surprisingly engaging pacing for a four hour romance that concludes with “maybe the real husband was the Confederate South all along”. The horse riding deaths were somewhat off-putting and comedic considering their morbid aftermaths but there are no other faults to find in the direction of the film itself.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019
Possibly the most overrated piece of media I've seen so far, no clue why everyone is singing its praises considering it was an amalgamation of hollow lesbian pandering (another wishy washy historical queer romance with no substance or depth beyond "O blasphemy! O misery! Women are pressured into marriage"). Boring, monotone dialogue with zero rhythm or variation excluding one, maybe two lines; complete lack of chemistry between the two leads (probably due to the insufferable script); a complete absence of…
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Goodbye to Language 2014
Incoherence in film has long been mistaken for a sign of transcendence beyond the middling curve of "Good Cinema". Yet Godard's descent into image deconstruction is a flippant and gratuitous act of hubris. The defeatist stance that expression and comprehension of an infinite essence is impossible through limited human frameworks (of which a singular individual may know very little) is so simplistic it's almost vile. It reeks of Godard's relentlessly hollow and philistine essentialism; refusing to see the world beyond…
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