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Mickey 17 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Loved the movie! Very entertaining, great performances, and enough to chew on for me with themes of scientific ethics, stratification of society, political ambition and controlling the environment.
Mickey is in a desperate position in life, living in a collapsing society and owing debt to a sadistic lender who punishes late debtors via torturous death - seemingly an immediate metaphor for critique of a broken capitalist society. With no other option, Mickey signs his life rights away to a failed…
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Suzhou River 2000
Suzhou River is a gritty, industrialized world of people just getting by, idly spending their time ignoring crime and corruption or partaking in it. When something undeniably human breaks through this malaise, like love or loss, the characters obsessively pursue the feeling. This results in a mixed world of passion and melancholy.
Technically, I thought there was ingenious narrative construction by alternating between pov and documentary-like perspective, thematically crashing into each other to interrogate myth and reality. This is a…
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