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  Review by Nolan Smock ★★★★½

  Plato's 'The Cave' (Vaporwave Mix)

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  Review by deepbluefunk ★★★★

  Strange socialization experiment with two radically different worlds tied together by a lone traveler. The first world, gritty, colourless, mechanized, humorless, covered in flies and decay. The second bourgeois world is defined by it's myriad colours, people engaged in pastimes, classical music.
  Where the first world is scratchy and frustrating, the second is dazzling as a veneer (seemingly devoid of much inner depth).
  The traveler who moves from the first to the second seems to exemplify the view from someone who has been kept in the communist systems as his eyes are opened to the profound differences of Western society.
  Political, allegorical and certainly still pertinent today (with other cultural systems standing in for the lapsed Soviets), this satire is biting and shrewd but quite languid in pace.

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  Review by Liberty ★★★½

  Okay but what about the ‘a’

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  Review by damfino99 ★★★

  A man from a grey regimented world finds a doorway into a colorful repetitive world and begins to bounce from one to the other.

  
  Intended as commentary on the collapsing Iron Curtain and Estonia's initial interactions with Western European and American culture. The glimpses of the western world create an image of a sparkling free place but in reality it's banal and bland and just as locked into a narrow reality as the world on the other side of the curtain. Whether you get that from watching the film vs reading about it is a somewhat different thing.

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  Review by Dozzyrok ★★★★½

  Bunuel and Plympton not maximalist, psychotic, anarchic enough. Thank god we have Priit Pärn being probably one of the most chaotic animators ever. I will be rewatching this.

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  Review by zones ★★★★★

  cartoons are so silly

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  Review by madmanmundt ★★★★½

  Estonian animator Priit Parn’s ‘Hotel E’ was made just after the re-establishment of the Estonian Republic after fifty years of Soviet occupation. With this remarkable film, Parn examined the changing relationship between Eastern and Western Europe and the influence of the American dream. It is clear from the outset that Parn has misgivings about what others saw as a hopeful transition. Parn has divided his world into two nightmarish visions. One is a brightly-coloured but eerily robotic world in which the inhabitants indulge in pointless activities and empty conversations. The other is an abysmally grey, windy netherworld where the faceless inhabitants are doomed to sit around a large clock-like table and lift teacups up every time the clock’s hand passes…

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  Review by Jack Madden ★★★

  Smiling friends

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  Review by viv ★★★★★

  flies

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  Review by Tia ★★★★★

  Perfectly disturbing and disruptive, especially for the newly independent (yet still physically occupied) Estonia of the 90s. As always, Pärn has a fantastic use of colour and sound, and this film featured more mediums than he typically uses, which was interesting.

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  Review by Wally Brando Erotic Cosplay ★★★★½

  From Chris Robinson's The Unsung Heroes of Animation:

  In 1992, the year after Estonia became independent, Pärn completed Hotel E, a bitter and sometimes myopic critique of the hypocrisy of both the East and the West. While the East represses art in language, he contends, the West, for all its freedom, lacks art and language, and with that, individuality. Playing with stereotypes, paints the East as a dark, grey world while he fills the West with bright colors and friendly, smiling faces. Beneath this pop art sugar coating, he seems to be saying that the West is a culture of sterility and delusion. No one does anything and no one says anything, yet everything is 'just great.'

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  Review by orinow ★★★★

  W każdej oddzielającej ścianie można znaleźć drzwi. Drzwi, które łączą. Victor znajduje takie drzwi. Beztwarzowy, bezimienny Victor jest gotowy do drogi. Jednak każde odejście jest jednocześnie przybyciem. Jednak każdy przyjazd nie jest powrotem. Victor rozpoczął niebezpieczną grę…

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  Confrontation of two worlds, two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, and the other is monotonously gray. The hero finds a way between these worlds. IMDb

  In every wall that separates, one can find a door. A door which connects. Victor finds such a door. Faceless, nameless Victor is prepared to go. Yet every departure is also an arrival. Every arrival, however, is not a return. Victor has begun a dangerous game….

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  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotell_E

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