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Poor Things 2023
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Bella likes to break things — in her stiff performance of infancy, limbs flailing in locked form, she finds her joy in smashing plates, slamming piano keys, clapping at God's burp bubble bursting. It's as though from "birth" she is made to disrupt things. Her father, God, is a doctor of anatomy, whose mission is to understand how things work, and then discover the new ways they work, stitching animals together like Dr. Moreau. He's referred to as "dog-faced," deformed…
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The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya 2010
When Kyon first met Haruhi, it was with a stand-offish aggression in both parties that made them destined to be loners — him a reserved and cowardly young man, and her a buoyantly outgoing outsider. Haruhi announced, at the beginning of the school year, that she would not pay attention to anyone normal; and so her friendship with the most normal people began.
Haruhi Suzumiya as a franchise has often been dismissed as a pandering bit of nerd media, carried…
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A Piece of Phantasmagoria 1999
All the images are static, just landscapes with bodies moving through them, structures and hills and stars looming over the horizon. They hold long enough for the sounds of footsteps and of animals to become something musical. The feeling is like being a child, walking through an art gallery, seeing things that don't make sense but you know someday will. It's the dreams you remember after you've woken up, the ones you remember after years have passed.
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Mickey 17 2025
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I was hooting and hollering the whole time but it is a Strange Days level liberal copout to end this movie with fascism being defeated by cameras proving that Space Donald Trump broke the law. Bong Joon-ho makes movies about people accepting naive ideas, but they tend to come with a bitter pill — I don't care that much though, the political commentary here is secondary to the trauma loop, and the broad sentimentality is better suited there.
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Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps 2024
Castration Movie Anthology i: Traps
What we have of Castration Movie so far is wildly ambitious in its novelistic structure, treating the ugly insecurities of incels and fringe trans people as a cinematic epic, their bodies sprawling out to fill the 2.39 aspect ratio like landscapes without horizons. This low quality digital photography feels like a Brechtian means of distancing the audience, enforcing the barrier between us and the people inside it who feel as though they can't be known.…
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X 2022
There is a germ of an idea here. A fragment of insight. X attempts to mock the form of pseudo-sex-positivity that is only welcoming to young, thin people — these are shallow people who perceive "ugliness" as a horrible state of existence, and feel as though they're above those they find unattractive. I will give Ti West that much.
The problem is that this movie takes that and extends it to being weirdly patronizing about casual sex. It treats sex…
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