If it hadn’t been for the unbearably annoying and unrealistic dialogue and a script that goes for a convenient coincidence at every turn, this would’ve been a truly brilliant film
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967
Absolutely not over the fact that Green Book is not even a step more progressive than this yet it still won Best Picture in 2019
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Look Back 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Years ago I went through “friendship” with a manipulative piece of shit remarkably similar to Fujino, so what resonated with me the most in this movie was the “- I want to try living on my own, without having to rely on you!/ - You’ll fail!” dialogue. The rest of it felt mostly incomprehensible; I mean why are we acting like the scenario in which Kyomoto and Fujino never met was not the best thing that could’ve happened to them?
On a side note, a movie that actually validates the “It’s my fault that they died” stage of grieving is crazy
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Yi Yi 2000
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Insipid and uninspired. Similarly to the character of Mr Ota, Yang reveals to us that he’s no magician - he just learned how to control the audience’s emotions. And so, as if to prove his point, we’re given plot lines that have the highest emotional impact yet require the least effort from both the audience and the screenwriters - passing away of an older relative, a suicide attempt, a forsaken-yet-never-forgotten first love, a crime of passion. Don’t get me wrong,…
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