This movie uses a lot the prison metaphor to illustrate how people, especially couples, can alienate themselves in an unfulfiling life, but it also reminds us of how every life is, in its own way, unfulfiling. I think it makes a statement about how capitalism and industrial society is deeply reliant on a constant influx of products and consumption in order to maintain its symbolic integrity. It pictures it as yet another way of being unfulfilled, as something ordinary in a sense. It does this with a lot of beauty and poetry, which Antonioni yet again delivers masterfully.
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Lost Highway 1997
I'll just go ahead and quote Wikipedia because Slavoj just has this quality of being so good and it makes me happy. It's kind of amazing to watch this movie unravel, so many layers and so beautifully tied together.
Philosopher and critic Slavoj Žižek considered the narrative's circularity as analogous to a psychoanalytic process: "there is a symptomatic key phrase ["Dick Laurent is dead"] (as in all of Lynch's films) that always returns as an insistent, traumatic, and indecipherable message…
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A Real Pain 2024
It's a movie about what's "real" and what's not, what is real emotion and passion as opposed to objectivity and pragmatism. But is this emotion really more real than its opposite? Isn't the need for being real only exist precisely in opposition to a commercial planned out life and, in this case, tourism? I tend to feel that this movie is about this contradiction, not from a moralizing point of view but one where both things need to coexist.
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Summer with Monika 1953
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
What often strikes me about Bergman is how universal his movies are. And here again, over 70 years later and this movie hasn't dated in the slightest, the message is still there, the sentiment remains the same.
First of all, everybody struggles with reality, with feeling forced to withstand unpleasant situations because school, work or life in general demands it and we're but a part of this something greater called society. In this scenario there's nothing more natural than wanting…Translated from by
