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No Other Land 2024
“this is a story about power.”
i don’t think i’ve ever felt so viscerally angry while watching a movie. not because the film is bad, it’s a master work of journalism, but because of how absolutely vile and unfair the treatment of the documentary’s subjects is. watching the community of masafer yatta be terrorized, their lives taken apart and destroyed bit by bit, is infuriating. it’s devastating. if i felt this way just watching it, in a nice movie theater,…
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Taxi Driver 1976
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“i got some bad ideas in my head.“
what is there left to be said about taxi driver? i came into this movie somehow almost completely blind, and i left it feeling a little off kilter. i knew i liked it, but i didn’t really get why i liked it at first. there’s some obvious stuff, like the cinematography, the score, the acting, but the story left me feeling uncomfortable, like it was incomplete. i like unsatisfying endings, but something about…
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The Great Santini 1979
“you're looking at bull meechum now, and this is the eye of the storm!”
an interesting exploration of family dynamics and how military culture can turn toxic for not just the people in it, but the people around it. good premise, but i wish the ending was different/had more to it.
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The Zone of Interest 2023
“i wasn't really paying attention... i was too busy thinking how I would gas everyone in the room.”
this is a film that takes the idea of the banality of evil and runs with it. you watch nazis enjoy their lives, have parties, and fret over truly meaningless domestic minutiae, while the smoke from auschwitz’s crematorium rises above them. i think the best moment of this movie comes at the very end, with a sobering (in an already sober movie)…
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