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Francisca 1981
The old world is dying; the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of [“dysentery of the soul.”]
It wasn’t until about 2 hours into this film that I started to really like it. The pivotal scene iinvolved the wealthy upperclass sitting down for dinner, speechless and nearly motionless, as their servants served food and wine, moving around the baroque dining room in a perfectly symmetric way, almost like they were synchronized swimming. I thought “this is…
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BlacKkKlansman 2018
If I were a director and I wanted to make a film which completely whitewashes the police of their systemic racism and crimes against black Americans, I would have made this film. Actually, “whitewashes” is going easy. Spike Lee portrays cops as the misunderstood, misrepresented heroes of the civil rights era.
What we’ve got here is a film about the police and the KKK which willfully neglects the intimate connections between those two. I kept waiting the entire movie for…
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Léon: The Professional 1994
What's far, far more disturbing to me than the sexualization of a child is the fact that little effort was made to separate the child actress from the child character. Watching a 12 year old actress perform "Like a Virgin" was disturbing, but watching her say to a man 3 or 4 times her age that she wants him to be her first was unspeakable.
By contrast, Gregg Araki put a great deal of effort in Mysterious Skin, a film…
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