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  Rocky IV 1985

  ★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Propaganda at its finest... a movie replete with montages, patriotic sequences placed sporadically throughout the film to mask the lack of substance... Rocky, a diligent immigrant, toiling under the harsh Siberian sun, remains a figment of an atavistic American ideal, whereas Paulie, the lustful drunk, is the true representation of America. The essence of the film is a false dichotomy - a prudent imperialistic nation produces a film to denigrate an iniquitous tyrannical nation...? Am I to hope for a tie?

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  Wild Strawberries 1957

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Guilt, a sin so sinister that God saw it fit to curse mankind with it for eternity. Time, regret, reflection, hope, all leading unto a culmination of misery. Somewhere beyond the boredom of now, and the elusive future ahead, is a malleable past, subject to the blinding light of nostalgia, a blank slate whose colors shine brightest in the darkness of the present.

Popular reviews

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  White Nights 1959

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  "Oh, if only you were him!" You can dream of an endless and vast sky, a field of flowers swaying gently below a setting sun, a loving woman, whose bright eyes see in your very soul but you cannot feel her love. Condemned to spend my life dreaming, perhaps a fate worth than death.

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  First Blood 1982

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  A propagandistic valorization of the 'American fighting man.' A government excusing itself for its grievous errors - am I to blame the boogey man? No, for he is merely a puppet, with strange string of barbed wire... but this movie, this revered classic, is a piece of propaganda: "It is the fault of the hippies, and the octogenarians, who cast our veterans aside... those who trudged through the swamps of 'Nam, and fought those ruthless children!l" - a polemic against…

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