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  Limitless Paradise 1981

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Jul 2023 1

  It was on the 2nd of July when I was just coming back home from seeing a friend earlier that afternoon that I heard the news about the recent restoration and digitizing of Hiroshi Harada’s 1981 student animation Limitless Paradise (also known as Eternal Paradise or Kagirinaki Rakuen). Even as someone who had closely followed the regular posts and production updates across Harada’s ongoing blog and Kiryukan production website, this reveal was a major surprise, and definitely a welcomed one.…

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  Naked Lunch 1991

  Watched 10 May 2023

  Crash made me feel dirty about the mere idea of going into a car. Naked Lunch gave me a romanticized view of typewriters. For a brief moment during one scene where two of the protagonists exchange banter about their table-shaking word dispensers, I (a dyslexic who lives on autocorrect) thought to myself "Owning a typewriter sounds really nice". I observed the prop typewriters like they were sports cars, taking mental notes on the differences between the Smith-Corona Super-5 and the…

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  The Death Lullaby 1985

  ★★★★★ Added 1

  The Death Lullaby is the coming-of-age of the concept of alienation itself, starting with interpersonal child abuse and ostracization, building up to a large scale late-capitalist embodiment with the story of a small village that’s forcibly demolished for the construction of a bullet train, both narratives being congruent with the history of the construction of Narita airport. A boy with a severe buck-toothed underbite is cut off from his mother after she contracts an illness that causes her to cough…

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  Daddy, Father Frost Is Dead 1991

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  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.