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Nickel Boys 2024
was really skeptical of the POV perspective for the first half or so; felt a bit too much like cutscenes from a AAA story-focused video game from like ten years ago when they were first trying to be 'cinematic' (complete with really obvious '60s historical scene-setting cues, contrived observations that are only set up to allow for a cool shot gimmick, and that awkward long-pause dialogue with the camera) in a way that drew me out of the moment instead…
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In the Bedroom 2001
super manipulative. so many heavy-handed metaphors and orchestrated 'oh shit suddenly i saw something with thematic significance and i'm thinking about my trauma now' moments that it's almost sadistic to the characters. there are some real moments, capturing the kind of uncertainty/numbness/evasiveness that makes grief such an interesting emotional framework to explore in art. but the movie never passes up a chance to attempt that stuff, going through the motions of every grief-related beat in the books, like it's doing…
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Dark City 1998
the uncanny genre-fiction pastiche makes dark city feel less like a film and more like a graphic novel or a video game, like professor layton or even bioshock. as a movie it can make the artificial atmosphere as unsettling as possible, since you're watching the whole thing happen at a remove like a diorama, which is pretty interesting. i wish they could somehow squeeze more life out of the characters though.
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