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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The ideas are nicely enough sketched and the high concept is fairly engaging in and of itself, but it feels like Schumacher only had a handful of good ideas and tried to stretch those to their inevitable breaking point. Feels like a very shallow exercise on trauma therapy between the characters with a formal scheme that you can kinda tell it's trying really hard to reach for tension/pathos/emotion etc., but to me nothing really clicked beyond it's initial conceptions, draging out a bunch of nothing images to an innocuous implosion.
"a realidade é o funeral das ilusões"
the triumph of love, empathy and hope over the capital's ruthless materialism. At what rate does capitalism's poisonous conservatism is able to neutralize our instinct for caring about something other than ourselves? Singing a song, reliving a memory, reciting a poem, at the end of the day those are all ways of trying to preserve our souls in a world increasingly more interested only in empty vessels. Coutinho strikes me as a master…
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Ducournau's images at times manages to get to efficient brutality, but i cant stop thinking how basically everything else feels interested in creating an illusion of grandeur the film can't back it up in any way whatsoever. It is very likely a movie that thinks it's having very important reflexions on womanhood, but at the end of the day it only manages to create bland simbology and obvious 'allegory' pretending to be some kind of 'great art cinema'. I'm very…
Provavelmente é dos maiores exercícios de gênero do século. Shyamalan ao mesmo tempo que parte de uma contextualização esotérica — o elemento sobrenatural característico de seu cinema que serve como ritual de superação para seus personagens — lida com uma encenação que não mede excessos, seja na parte dramática mesmo (Wahlberg e Deschanel se entregam de corpo e alma ao drama familiar ao redor do conflito) seja no movimento de incorporar uma iconografia explícita e surtada do cinema de horror…