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  Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959

  Watched 10 Jun 2022

  A French actress and a Japanese architect have an affair in Hiroshima and hark back to memories of the bombing and its smoldering effect on their conscious. The film obliquely draws a parallel between the direct suffering of victims and the multilateral motif of indirect suffering of non-victims, while simultaneously not undermining the devastation of the bombing.

  In its poetic ≈10-minute opening montage sequence, the French woman recollects the horrors of the bombing, but the Japanese man repeatedly negates her…

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2021 2

  Zendaya.

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  La Haine 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Sep 2021 1

  "So far, so good..."

  Capturing Parisian suburb realism, La Haine is a story about the constant rising tension amid a day in the life of three friends from marginalized backgrounds.

  La Haine exudes superior filmmaking; from the camera work, staging, and technical ploys to the immaculate score, it orchestrates the genuine and true experience of living life as outsiders in the suburbs of Paris. The movie's usage of different vantage points draws out the idiosyncratic stress and psyche of the…

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  Tucker and Dale vs. Evil 2010

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Oct 2021

  Original title was "Tucker and Dale vs. Frat Boys and 2 One-dimensional Sorority Girls"

  
  Source: Trust me

  
  Also, for some reason, I thought this movie was about zombies, so DISCLAIMER: NO zombies... *BUT* the main frat boy is named Chad (take that as you will)

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