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Persona 1966
The ugliness in existing, the shifting mirage called identity, the distress arising from the chasm between the perceptions of such, the bleak pointlessness of living without hope for salvation beyond this repugnant mortal coil - this might be the key to everything. The vastness of its prescience eludes my meagre faculties, and yet it shakes me to my core.
This shall only grow on me. I know it.Translated from by -
Vertigo 1958
Really strange, twisted film. I really appreciate Hitchcock's voyeuristic gaze through his lens, his experimental nightmare sequence, suffusion of colour for each of the film's chief themes, and an exploration of how obsession with an unattainable fantasy, a desire for absolute control, and terror and helplessness all masquerade as love, it really is a brilliant, convoluted story - but it didn't quite affect me to the point that I'd consider it one of the greatest of all time (maybe a…
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Late Spring 1949
Kicking off the year with an Ozu gem.
A beautiful, serene piece touching on the pain of leaving the nest, of leaving everyone and everything and all that you know and love behind for pastures anew, all due to the passage of time and the change it brings, and societal norms that only seem to serve as a hindrance to what brings the heart contentment. This echoes some of my deepest fears, despair and foreboding, but I suppose change is…
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12 Angry Men 1957
12 Angry Men - a film where a dozen people from differing backgrounds constitute the jury and are locked up in a room until they decide if a purported murderer gets to live or die. That's it, that's the premise of this supposed great. What's so special about these everyday figures - the meek officegoer, the wise geriatric with a lifetime's experience with people, the stern logician with an unwavering faith in facts and figures, the bright-eyed immigrant who dreams…
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