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Viridiana 1961
This left me utterly confused. It seemed to be very bluntly saying "if you try to help people in need, you're a fucking sucker because poor people are basically animals that will take advantage of you the second you let them". Surely, I thought, I must have misunderstood it. Reading the reviews here, I seemed to have basically gotten it right, which... just fucking sucks?! I am all for shitting on christianity, but this movie is saying "christianity is dumb…
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The Big Risk 1960
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Ending a movie with just noping out of the big revenge finale and then having a voiceover that says "a few days later he was caught and executed" is such a wild move. Really gloomy stuff.
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Special Section 1975
Considering how well known Z is, it is strange to me that Costa-Gavras' other films are not more well-known. To me, this is just as rivetting, shocking and important as that other more famous work. French collaboration with the Nazi occupiers is too often neglected and forgotten. The film does a fantastic job of showing how bureaucrats and judges, while first scandalized by the criminality of fascism, little by little are nudged into becomes its hangmen. I also appreciate how…
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