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Moonlight 2016
Moonlight is a gentle movie about violence. Most of the shots are hued with a cool cold blue, or lit in a waxing warm yellow. But the effect isn't solely euphemisitc. It reflects, and ultimately outlines the central tension of the film in sharp contrast.
Humans' softness - their curious desires to seek and understand love - is juxtaposed against the hardness of life. Acts of violence, domestic or otherwise, seem both fated and arbitrary. Even love is elusive, sometimes…
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Women Talking 2022
Women Talking is a masterpiece in adaptation. The contemplative, often soul-searing, dialogues of the simultaneously tragic and heroic women of "the colony" are weaved together with long shots of ponderous rural landscapes. Director Sarah Polley, through a mastery of cinematic conventions, builds a vast bucolic world of beauty and misery. But this feat did not come at the expense of the thought-inducing spaces inbetween the pages of its source material.
The topic matter is heavy, and the film pulls no…
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Avatar: The Way of Water 2022
Avatar: The Way of Water speaks the language of old Hollywood blockbusters. It is a language that has insulated itself against other artistic traditions and growing racial and gender awareness. To its detriment, the film's pro-environmental and pro-indigenous diegetic message rings somewhat hollow within the myopic and echoey cave built by the callous stones of old white male directors. A film about indigenous resistance against colonizers in 2022 shouldn't be centered around the motto "Sullies stick together" where Jake Sully,…
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The Worst Person in the World 2021
"The Worst Person in the World" opts for an intensely personal point of view, through which it tells a genuine story about the messiness of loving others and loving oneself. For that, I do recommend it.
But its insistence on (white) liberal individualism no longer resonates with me like it once could have. In the end all of its characters either make peace with or succumb to the hegemony's prescribed spectrum of meanings. Their flirtation with collectivist politics does little…
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