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The Virgin Suicides 1999
in this movie girls are caged animals, shadows, shells of things for boys to watch, invent, appropriate. it's a film about the male gaze that isn't brave enough or smart enough to be properly horrified by it. instead the invasion and robbing of girls' personhood becomes a romance, and the movie refuses to look beyond the paper dolls its boys want to see. even their suicides are objectifying.
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The Social Network 2010
it's a little bit impossible for me to review this film because it's my favorite movie of all time, and so inextricable at this point from my emotional investment in it, and the way it's stayed with me through countless re-watches over the past six years... but i'm trying anyway.
david fincher's dark, fluid, hyperfocused vision + aaron sorkin's sharp, witty dialogue + jesse eisenberg's anxious arrogance + andrew garfield's wounded sensitivity + trent reznor and atticus ross's tense, moody…
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