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Videodrome 1983
Hard to think of something original to say about this. Did it predict the rise of reality television, a genre whose cruel indifference to its audience is matched only by its cruel indifference to its subjects? The erosion of human empathy through the normalisation of ultraviolence? The birth of a truly schizophrenic human culture via the visceral canal of direct-to-home media? Yes, yes, and yes, but from watching the movie I know people have said that about it for 40…
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Don't Torture a Duckling 1972
A beautiful, arresting, sometimes sickening rumination on the cruel indifference of modernity to the small backwards ordinary people whose lives it paved over. Loved it.
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Cruel Images 2024
Though the cynicism and hypocrisy of Nazi propaganda is the main subject of the film, it also left me with a burning question about what the process was by which, in their attempt to negate the Jews of Europe, the Nazis left an indelible impression of themselves seared into the DNA of the nascent state of Israel. I wonder if there is any Israeli media out there which matches Uncle Kruger in its mendacious claim to victimhood; I know the answer.
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Wild at Heart 1990
One of my favourite ever opening credits sequences and first scenes. What follows is my proper review of the movie, but I want to say up top that we saw this at Golden Age in Sydney during their Willem Dafoe retrospective, which to me seems about 20 years too early!!
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In David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, the great American visionary presents us with two great visions of American sex: a dream colliding with a nightmare. In the dream, sex is…
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