Through cinema, we see the worst and best versions of ourselves. These are equally terrifying: one because it shows us what we may become, the other because it shows us what we will never be.
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Memoria 2021
Memories only last so long before the lights go out and that corner of our mind darkens. Lost or irreversibly mutated, they are inaccesible. Try as we may to excavate our past, we are inevitably confronted by the fact that large swathes of it are unknowable. There is so much in the human experience that is unknowable, indescribable especially if bound to one tongue, which nonetheless fascinates people to such a degree that they ignore the wonders before their eyes.…
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Sideways 2004
Is Sideways the most 2000s movie ever made? It's soaked in that post-9/11 liberal malaise, not yet immersed in the hyper-connected urgency of the smart phone era. Maybe I'm wrong, but it feels like these particular kinds of losers are less common in today's world of corporate-incentivized social comparison than they were in 2004. Jack doesn't know enough to know he's a (charming?) loser, and Miles possesses a deep intrinsic sadness that's unfettered by his perceptions of anyone else. He…
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Field of Dreams 1989
The first moment of excitement in this movie was when I (immediately???) recognized Gaby Hoffman. The second was during James Earl Jones's first scene. There was not a third.
Expectations aside (I really thought it would all be an escalation to the titular Field being built), this was just mondo boring. I do not at all care for baseball, but even I would have preferred a straight up baseball movie to this lugubrious odyssey through masculine pseudo-trauma. Lots of perusing…
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Cries and Whispers 1972
Do you think Ingmar Bergman ever experienced genuine human emotion in his life, or was he too busy finding new ways to make 90 minute films feel twice as long?
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The First Slam Dunk 2022
Watching this as a fan of basketball and not anime is wild, man. Bro's whole game is dribbling it at the top of the key for 20 seconds while exposition and generic shonen affirmations cycle in his head, just waiting for a teammate to get open. They run exactly one pick and roll and it's at a PRACTICE. Bro finishes with like 2 points, 1 rebound, 6 assists, and 15 turnovers (that's not even an exaggeration) and never gets pulled…
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