I don't understand how so many people missed the point of this film. It isn't a movie about the Civil War pt. 2 happening. It's really not about what would happen to America during societal breakdown. It serves up no dramatic political narrative, it's not about extremism, and it isn't a cautionary tale of what could happen. This film is about what's happening right now. It's about the dangers of detachment and dehumanization. It's a critique on those who want…
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Heavy Traffic 1973
Heavy Traffic comblines bleak realism with surrealist imagery, live action with animation, and the beautiful with the grotesque to tell the story of two lost souls finding hope in one another in a chaotic and hateful world. It wouldn’t be right to characterize it as satire; it’s something beyond that, approaching its protagonists sincerely but still exposing with cynicism the violent culture which has been baked into them. The constant slingshotting between moments of tenderness and unabated violence can be…
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Station Eleven 2021
Kind of incomprehensible. The only characters I found to be likable were Jeevan, Frank, and Miranda, and I especially hated Alex throughout. I wish Kirsten would’ve been better at communicating relevant details.
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