I agree with the reviews talking about how this movie feels like it was served cold and overly-meticulous, conceptual for the sake of being conceptual, just like Slowik’s dishes. And if that was intentional, this may be a genius movie (and in the same way that the menu [within the film] is an indictment of today’s restaurant-goers, The Menu could be an indictment of today’s movie-watchers and the creators who lose their love for the craft at the expense of pleasing unappreciative…
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We Live in Time 2024
“They watch the plays because they hope to be made to feel sad, and the feeling of sorrow is what they enjoy. What miserable delirium is this? The more a man is subject to such suffering himself, the more easily he is moved by it in the theatre.
Yet when he suffers himself, we call it misery: when he suffers out of sympathy with others, we call it pity. But what sort of pity can we really feel for an…Translated from by
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Dune: Part Two 2024
So good. I drove 50 mins to see this in IMAX and it was well worth it. A powerful film, and everything I could’ve hoped for in a film adaptation of the book.
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Her 2013
In a very interesting way, this movie portrays something that I think is crucial to the debate around AI and technology (especially in 2023): we will never not need human connection. That is something that will always be important to us. Even though technology will only ever get more advanced and more "intelligent" and continue to solve more of our problems, it will never truly be able to solve the problem of loneliness. We were created for community, and in…
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