It's so cool to see the groundbreakingly innovative camera work here and the use of sound and its absence, like with the introduction of a leitmotif for the murderer, one of the first instances outside opera, using it to drive up tension.
The look in Lorre's eyes as he looks across his shoulder in the mirror to see he's been marked and identified as a murderer, truly chilling. The whole sequence of events after this identification was insane, leading to…
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I'm Still Here 2024
Throughout watching, someone behind me in the cinema kept loudly rubbing their hands together like an evil villain and it was sickening, but really I guess that sums up the presence of the dictatorship in the film, heard and felt more than seen.
It's heart wrenching how we're invited into this beautifully warm and lively family only for a hole to be punctured into it, one that they try their best to heal around, however many decades it takes. There's…Translated from by
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The Brutalist 2024
Oh another film about the lone genius! Why can't people understand him. Why must people stand in his way. Can't you see he is a visionary. Any sort of collaboration? unnecessary. Engineers and design teams are just superfluous obstacles. We must build this "community" centre on this pretty hill in the middle of nowhere, not for the community but as a monument to the lone male genius. Laszlo is a stand in for the director himself isn't he, that's it…
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