This movie was a mind-bender. 4/5, but I gave it a 5/5 for completely defying my expectations and shifting genres mid-movie. I love how it took a darker and more psychological turn, and really looked into male machismo. Watching our main character slowly fall victim to a psychotic delusion provides an interesting metaphor for duality: conform or rebel, heal or don't, fight or back down, and sanity or madness.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
As sharp and well-crafted as a Japanese blade, Kill Bill is nothing short of an alluring, puzzle of a movie. It's a genre-bending masterpiece that combines the aesthetics of slasher films, old westerns, nineties anime, and colorful seventies martial arts movies to create a cinematic whirlwind.
The film is extremely gory, so I wouldn't recommend to young or traumatized viewers. However, combined with dramatic foley work, the gore wasn't real enough to turn me off from the movie (which is…
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Isle of Dogs 2018
I expected nothing less than a masterpiece from Anderson, and my expectations were not disproven. Isle of Dogs is truly a work of art, from the Taiko-brimmed, percussive soundtrack to cinematography that perfectly illustrates the nostalgic connection of a child and his beloved pet.
The film is clever and witty, and it packs a comedic punch that doesn't literally punch you in the face. It has subtle romantic undertones that don't overtake the plot and create unnecessary mess, and each…
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