A smoothly crafted film, buoyant with brooding cinematography and a driving screenplay supported fundamentally by a virtuosic Blanchett performance. Brody et al lament an apparent political critique of woke culture in this film - I cannot locate it. Tár is portrayed as the very monster she is, empathy afforded to her is only the minimum natural volume of that for another human or mother or artiste. Brody falls rather for the very man-trap this film tries, not even subtly or…
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The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
See review of 'Margin Call' but instead of empathy we develop plain old lust for hedonistic life. Expertly crafted by Scorsese and hence limitlessly rewatchable.
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Jam 2000
The height absolute of absurd art comedy; a feast of discomfort and boundary-testing. Morris, moreso than perhaps any comic writer, before or after, understands the joke to be a tool that reveals forms of truth. Satire and absurdism have carried the burden of this truth-telling cause the longest, satire with earthly political matters, and absurdism with affairs of human psychology, motivation and behaviour. Morris exploits this absurdist capacity to its limit, asking that we find comedy in total malfunctions of…
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Chef 2014
For those, like I, who will openly salivate at the prospect of delicious, simple or meticulously crafted food, this film stands out as a zenith of food cinematography. It is adjoined to a cheesy, happy portrayal of kitchen culture and family life, a select, danceable soundtrack and a predictable story of redemption in culinary simplicity and honesty. A surprisingly deep cast delivers at par.
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