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Malcolm X 1992
I have a bit of a bias watching this movie, because I was a history major in college I immediately knew I was going to enjoy this movie. Malcolm X is a major character in the history of racial equality in America. While some people may look on his approaches less favorably then others, the fact remains that you can’t look into the Civil Rights movements of the 1960’s without coming across the name Malcolm X. Denzel Washington does a…
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Moonlight 2016
I think one of my favorite things in Moonlight might be the use of color in the film. Color in film has always been used to help the viewer understand the subtextual context of certain scenes. In this film, there’s one particular use of color that really stuck out to me. It’s the color that comes from Paula’s room in the apartment. In one scene, we see Juan drop Chiron off at his apartment and his mother just grabs him…
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Death in Venice 1971
“Music is the most ambiguous of the arts. It is ambiguity made a science.” This is my favorite quote in the entire movie, because I feel like it is contradictory to how music works in movies. Ambiguous normally means that something is unclear or uncertain. Yet when I think of music in movies, I usually have a very firm grasp of what I am listening to, and by extension, how I am supposed to feel about what I’m watching. The…
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The Conformist 1970
This may be one of the weirdest “spy” movies that I have ever seen. Case in point I put the word spy in quotation marks because I’m not really sure if this movie fits the genre. It fits in the sense that this is a movie about a man who is under orders from his country to perform the assassination of an individual deemed “dangerous” by his government. But then it doesn’t feel like a spy movie because our main…
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