A tremendously serious film to be taken very seriously that illustrates, perhaps above all, the nature of self-hatred. I am unfortunately unsurprised to see some not quite grasping this.
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The Colors Within 2024
In a certain musical cover by Grace Vanderwaal, she adds in the line "I accept all the things I cannot change." I disliked the line tremendously, thinking it like a resignation of effort or a fatalism toward the state of the world. Upong hearing its full, proper context as part of the Serenity Prayer, I now see the tremendous value of it: "KAMI-SAMA, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to act for those…
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
"Cesare, how long will people be talking about this film?"
"...UNTIL THE END OF TIME..."One of the great things about the FSDO weekly challenge is it can function as a mandate to get through old canonical works I otherwise perpetually put off.
Challenging of the authority of flashbacks here, which I like. And an interesting difference over the traditional "Kane-style" in that we get the villain origin story from books, not people's testimonies. And then the unreliable narrator/framing narrative…
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