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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
“And now, foolish child; he ignites it and kills his true enemy!”
Unlike in The Force Awakens where the new world struggled under the burden of the old, fighting just amongst themselves, they now enter direct conflict, a difficult task that Johnson handles wonderfully.
From the opening scene, Johnson takes Abrams’ loose ideas and narrows in on the specific acts and instances of rebellion that do not cease over the course of the film. Poe struggles with Resistance command, Rey…
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The French Dispatch 2021
The constant struggle between the goodness of humanity—the arts, the passion, the love—and the cruel, conservative, apathetic, powers of capitalistic civilization. The brief moments of brilliant heroism that show us at both our strongest and our weakest but are beautiful because they are not eternal. The fault in ourselves to find what eluded us in the places we once called home, to find the missing piece that makes us a hero to be remembered. Anderson’s ideas that he has continually…
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003
“What the Black Pearl really is... is freedom.”
Though the shallowest of Verbinski’s films in the series when it comes to pure ideas, the technical achievements wholly make it up for in their grand and beautiful nature. The scale and liveliness of the battles, the undeniably unsettling shifts of tone through lighting and camerawork, the ability to completely control the atmosphere with music alone, all of it gives the film its charming personality and character that has been adored since day…
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