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Elephant 2003
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
After viewing films of his such as Milk and Good Will Hunting I was expecting this real life account of the tragedy at Columbine to be in Gus Van Sant's usual, conventional style and not to wander too far from the limits of public expectations; especially considering it's subject. However I was thoroughly shocked after I watched the credits roll and not for the reasons I was initially expecting. Elephant is a film that is demanding of it's audience, it…
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Requiem for a Dream 2000
If there was ever a visual interpretation of the thought processes of those who fight against hard drugs, it would be Requiem for a Dream. Never before has a film had such a narrow view of its subject or so blatantly and overbearingly forced its ideologies of that subject onto its audience and had such a staying response. It lures its viewers into a state of emotional vulnerability and swiftly takes the advantage, plummeting down into the darkest realm of…
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The Grey 2011
I'm sure The Grey will receive much criticism due to it being another example of a film with blatantly false advertising. Like 2011's Drive, The Grey has a trailer which depicts a film of considerably different style to what is actually being advertised, one which leans more towards the safe, by the numbers, survivor story rather than the nihilistic philosophy tale that is the finished product. However this surprising turn for the film is also one of it's greatest assets,…
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