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  The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2024

  “We may be paying dearly for our worthless freedom.”

  I really didn’t know if a conclusion to a story this sprawling could be pulled off, and during the first act of this I was certain it wouldn’t be. Kaji has officially come full circle here; from being the manager-class of a Japanese POW labor camp to being a prisoner at a Soviet camp. Throughout the trilogy, Kaji remains steadfast in his humanism and idealistic in his socialism, believing even through…

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  The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2024

  “I'm a monster! But I'm going to stay alive! Is anyone there? Isn't anyone left alive? Answer me! Is anyone else still alive?”

  Much less stylized cinematography than No Greater Love, but that’s really for the best. I didn’t know that it could be improved upon, but the stakes for this are much greater and more personal. Kaji is pushed closer to his limits of pacifism and leftism — although he is a “Red,” there is still a juxtaposition between…

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  The Last of the Mohicans 1992

  ½ Watched 09 Nov 2023

  hey it’s your DAD HERE I’m gonna drink 6 miller high lifes and watch this movie for the twentieth time. I’m your DAD and I own TEN DVDS and they’re all about WAR and they’re all kinda RACIST

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  Fantastic Planet 1973

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Nov 2023

  Was a little bit too psychically elevated while watching this and I felt like I could see the source code if you understand my meaning. This film probably almost sent me into psychosis but in a fun way. This whole thing is uncanny valley. 

  Hauntingly dissociated portrayal of what we would call inhumane and even genocidal treatment of a physically and politically weaker class. Humans (“Om”) are portrayed simultaneously as pest, project, and pet. 

  However, mind blowing for an animated…

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