Yeah, well, you know, this is just like, my opinion, man.
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Zero Dark Thirty 2012
Katherine Bigelow made a solid, slow burn movie. But most of my thoughts are not so much about the craft but rather how it depicts these real-life situations.
It could have been substantially more honest in showing the horrific atrocities that were committed to find and assassinate UBL. The thesis of the film could have been “do ends justify the means?”, and dive into all the morally questionable actions committed by these characters to finally get “justice” from 9/11. It
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The Monkey 2025
I haven’t read the short story, but I suspect there was a good reason why it wasn’t a novel. Maybe they should’ve done the same with its film adaptation (and make it a short) and wouldn’t have felt repetitive, dragging, and a little boring.
Or maybe it just wasn’t for me.
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The Iron Claw 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It took me a minute to see the main brothers as their characters rather the actors in funny haircuts.
It also took me a minute, despite how obviously is (in hindsight) to figure out what this movie is actually about; being and having a brother. When it finally got me, holy shit. It was devastatingly beautiful.
It’s so tragic this was inspired by true events. I hope real-life Kevin is doing great and that he’s surrounded by people who love…
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Anatomy of a Fall 2023
I did not realize Daniel was visually impaired until 40-is minutes into the movie. I just thought he liked wearing cool sunglasses lol.
Seriously though, even it took me around 20-30 minutes to get into the headspace of the film, I truly appreciated it. The ambiguity of it all— the grey-ness, the lack of a need to paint a true and clear “antagonist”, the “slice of life-ness” is what I most liked about it.
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