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The Brutalist 2024
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The discourse of whether or not this movie was Zionist or anti-Zionist permeated my mind when watching this, and although I can appreciate the people who disliked the ambiguity, particularly in the context of the ongoing displacement and genocide in Gaza, I found the ambiguity to be pretty thematically poignant. Laszlo labors to build works that outlive the context in which they’re created — freedom from politics and history and maybe even personal struggle — but the problem is that…
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Lost Highway 1997
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Fred’s wife Renee used to be involved in porn and this combined with his seemingly lifeless marriage leads to feelings of inadequacy and anxiety that she is cheating on him. This causes him to kill her in a horrific manner. Then while in death row he tries to justify his actions to himself through imagining this fantasy as Pete where he’s a young, bad-boy stud who is able to simultaneously be the homewrecker (taking Alice from the mob…
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