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The Iron Claw 2023
"it's still real to me, dammit!"
wrestling is "fake", in the same way that cinema is "fake"; it's not a value judgement, just a fact, that both mediums are built on narrative, performance and presentation, a manipulation of the audience's desires, to show them what they expect and what they don't expect.
so where do all the feelings come from? how real is the pain? the despair? the assembly of images in a film, like the staging of maneuvers in…
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First Reformed 2017
i did not like this film very much when i saw it in theaters but after letting it sit for a few years and revisiting it, i think it’s one of the most brilliant films i’ve ever seen.
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C'mon C'mon 2021
nobody’s got what Mike Mills’ got - the most emotionally sincere and affecting modern filmmaker. okay that’s all
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