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Cape Fear 1962
Definitely an edgy noir for the time. I wouldn’t expect to see two men wet and shirtless, beating each other to death with rocks, because one man wants to revenge rape the others pubescent daughter, in a film from this period. Goes way more black pilled than the remake.
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Infinity Pool 2023
I feel like if you’re going to have this as your concept, you’re obliged to have more fun with it. The doubling quickly becomes a device for obvious social critiques and much less fun narrative directions. Maybe a spoiler, but for instance, if in the climax both Skargards had been naked we’d have something to actually talk about here. (I just realized that I had a dream last night where both Skargards were in a film and I was very…
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Avatar: The Way of Water 2022
Tedious, ugly, superficial, thin, insulting, quasi racist. First off, it’s in terrible taste for a Canadian director to make (again) such a blatant film that both fetishizes and reduces Indigenous cultures. Sully, a settler colonial, not only becomes indigenous, but is a better Navi than those born into it. It betrays Cameron’s simple fascination that in his mind these indigenous people are in such perfect harmony with nature that the creatures and plants are perfectly harnessed as tools, weapons and…
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Poetry 2010
There’s something about this film that I don’t understand. Mid way through, a poetry teacher tells his class they’ve never really seen an apple. « To appreciate it, to understand it, to be interested in it, » that’s seeing it. And this is the act of poetry. To see an apple as an apple, in its simplicity and totality. This is the task for Yang Mi-ja. It’s difficult. Her grandson hides beneath a blanket when she tries to discuss something…
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