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We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021
In some parts of the Internet, the veil between reality and the past is thin. Thin enough you can disappear into the period of time between 1989 and 2014 where the Web was still a mystery you could divine meaning from. Hyperlinked forums painstakingly maintained by real people treating obscure fictional canon to be gatekept with a hypnotic obsession, folksonomic repositories attempting to resurrect the Web 1.0 era phenomena of user-hosted websites, etc. The Web as unexplored territory to eke…
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Inland Empire 2006
David Lynch's body of work seems to be a Sierpiński gasket inverting and exposing the internal organs of twentieth century American life and the exploitative illusions that underline its societal facades (Twin Peaks a sainted Midwestern gnosis exploring the role of the 'nuclear family' in asserting and maintaining intergenerational trauma and by extension the social mutilation routinely committed against women and children, Mulholland Drive's savage exegesis of identity fragmentation and envy as contextualised within the whole-body sacrifice of female actresses…
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Mulholland Drive 2001
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
acknowledgement of the guilt = Diane’s filthy corpse in the bed = Rita leads Betty to Silencio as the blue hue reminds Diane of the key. Diane’s corpse lies as if she is dreaming forever — hey, pretty girl. It’s time to wake up.
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The Revenge Plot 2011
Really good and entertaining short film. You can already see MJ's long-standing thematic focuses (director-as-avatar, director-as-companion, mockumentary and found footage frameworks as tender myth) coming through despite the film's simplistic premise and even simpler length.
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