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It takes either a bold writer or an evil one to portray his protagonist at the head of a lynch mob braying for the blood of a foreigner in his village, and then to vindicate the lynch mob by showing the audience, in plain terms, that they were right all along. Not only is the foreigner a malign influence on rural South Korea, he is a contagious one. He infects their minds and turns them into monsters.
Wait. Turns 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮…
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I am finding this tough to get a feeling for. It isn't the masterpiece that the original is, but I was never expecting it to be. I find it more useful to compare to Aliens, which I have ambivalent feelings about for nearly opposite reasons to my ambivalence toward 3. James Cameron's installment is a tight, well-crafted thriller that suffers most from a script that is so sequel-y that it saps the narrative of much of the suspense that the…
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For the first 50 minutes or so, this film had me sold and most of the 2 stars I'm giving this are for those 50 minutes. The entire village sequence felt like the act of healing that the characters needed, spearheaded by the often-ignored Toji and Kensuke. They use Rei Q's search for an identity pretty early on. Instead of the struggle with a lack of a sense of self, Anno explores the beauty and purity in becoming a self.…
I weirdly admire whoever casts this franchise for their abject refusal to find people who can do even remotely convincing accents. It's part of the charm.
