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On Falling 2024
In many ways, my favourite kind of social realist film. That which depicts matter so painfully and humanly real that it is often rendered into something wholly anti-human – or farcical, irreal and downright strange – when given serious and sensitive consideration as On Falling does. Indeed, spend enough time with the subject matter at hand (that which has become too many lives, centred solely on bad work) and you can see how the discrete parts of the thing that…
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Mickey 17 2025
Friday night viewing at Peckhamplex was well suited to this extremely mid market fare.
Telling that it wasn't a sole Bo script as while all his typical anti-capitalist comments, anti-work-as-is themes, and class politics were present they felt vague and denuded of any real sharpness. Story also felt loosely held together or hewn together in strange bits - which isn't to take away from engaging cartoon performances from Pattison (not world changing as the many would have you believe, but…
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The Elephant Man 1980
David Lynch: master of the slow unfurl of an uncanny, often sad, dramatic sequence which shows the delicate, the cruel, and altogether inescapable human (good, bad) of that which is society. Stick enough of those sequences together - often at odd cadences, or coming into them from oblique angles - and you'll have yourself a (deliberately) uncomfortable heartbreak experience.
For a film that, mostly, felt structurally and narratively linear and light touch (despite the obviously heavy subject matter) there's an…
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