This film does for the Jewish soul was The Godfather did for Italians. It’s not even a joke. A life’s tale of change, travel, hope, destruction. I could go on, but all I’ll say is, I’m sorry for lower score the first time. It takes two watches. But Zach, you’re WRONG about the epilogue. In some ways it is the emotional climax. The catharsis of understanding the man and his art, and why he struggled so much for it. To…
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Hippo 2023
I was explaining the movie to my roommate, and an aggressive man on the bus started intensely staring us down. After a while he goes “You guys talking about a movie? Sounds like my life. Got the brain of a little kid but the aggression of an adult. Cops don’t care about that though, they tried me as an adult.”
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Mulholland Drive 2001
This movie has a unique magical power to piss off stupid people. No other movie is so technically clean and aesthetically accessible yet emotionally profound and psychologically avant garde, that it short circuits those who cannot access the subconscious tides that the movie crashes into.
The time I watched it before this, someone I watched it with said something like “this movie proves how pretentious movie culture is, that they call stupid shit like this the best movies ever.” That’s a defense mechanism against turning inwards.
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