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Bicycle Thieves 1948
"It's hopeless, it always rains on Sundays."
Property and theft. To be part of the underclass is not a choice but adapting to the reality that you find yourself in, and that reality is created by the law and its enforcement. Law affords the perception of justice to maintain an ordered society. It keeps the working class working, and the upper class spending. The law when applied to and within the underclass though is just arbitrary oppression of the strong by the less strong, justice is a consequence. But in the end Antonio is forgiven, so implicitly the thief of his bike is forgiven too.
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Charcoal 2022
It's so much easier to be a catholic in Portuguese.
It's name suggests the type of humour we'll The darkness implied . A very, very, very dark comedy, but whereas the work of McDonagh, the Coens, and Tarantino exist in some reality-adjacent universe, where the unreal margins provide the space for humour to exist in the darkest moments, Charcoal is rooted firmly in our world. For that it is often very grim, and often very very funny.
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Oppenheimer 2023
A welcome return to form for the big man. It weaves a beautiful thread through an uncertainty principle that was the work of a mere supporting character in this film, through the schizophrenic nature of quantum mechanics, and the personal and professional conflicts of its eponymous character. Even a few expressionistic techniques I've never seen from old Chris before are incorporated with ease.
There are a few contrivances but nothing to really complain about. The way the film pivots after…
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