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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I 2013
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The experience I had with this film was the same as "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind. It bewitched the audience, in this case, by erotic scenes of a young woman's discovery of her sex addiction and eventually love. But not like a porn movie attempting to imitate Hollywood-style filmmaking, the story is one of the most cleverly built and original that I've seen. Rather than indulging the audience with their sexual fantasies, Lar von Trier makes us wait impatiently during a…
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Arrival 2016
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The reason that I rate this film low is probably the same reason that makes many other appreciate it - the symbol of the alien and their languages. It's exactly the depiction of the Tralfamadorians in Kurt Vonnegut's classic 'Slaughterhouse-Five', albeit not reaching/developing more depth in its meaning. While Vonnegut's book explores the complexities in the mentality of a person going through the destruction of war through the motif of non-linear time, 'Arrival' merely suggests it near the end of…
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