First lynch Watched hungover in the cinema did not enjoy. Radical in its rejection of cinematic comfort, maybe it did show the bones beneath the hedonistic flesh of our everyday, but also felt like it was too self-indulgent in its grotesqueness. I think it would have worked better on a generation that hadn't seen snuff films and isis beheadings in Year 8, we know the world is evil and cold already, this film revelled in the ugliness instead of offering any path out.
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Munich 2005
Would have been great to have the perspectives of Palestinian assassins who are doing the same things for the same reasons. The most disgusting irony lies in the Israeli belief that their obsession with return and self governance is special. This was forged from 2000 years of oppression and displacement. Now Israel's violent and exclusive actions have created a new stateless people, ghettoised in surrounding Arab countries and diaspored accross the world. If only Jordan or Egypt or Lebanon would…
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972
Damn. Coppola definitely stole shit from here for apocalypse now. Even the secene with the plane in the tree, there's an exact scene but far more surreal as aguirre and his men float past a Spanish boat which has been marooned in the jungle canopy.
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Triangle of Sadness 2022
Even though I just saw it so have a huge availability bias, I'm probably not gonna take it down a star like with everything everywhere all at once,just because this was less intense and genuinely funny in quite a dark way. Best scenes were the American socialist captain and the Russian capitalist shit seller quoting chomsky and laughing over the intercom while the ship was being taken over by pirates. Also the old woman desperately trying to speak to the…
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