If aliens came down and we had to show them a movie to prove humanity‘s worth, I might show them this. That statement, I acknowledge, is a very Hollywood-brained, facile manner of expressing how deeply this resonated with me, but it just hit the nail on the head of what it’s like for your career to ultimately feel unimportant in comparison to the grandness of love (familial, long-lost, budding) and art (music, photography, film). Those are the truest forms of the…
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Paddington in Peru 2024
If the first two PADDINGTON movies taste like marmalade, PADDINGTON IN PERU tastes like orange flavored cough syrup
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Evil Does Not Exist 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Hamaguchi films scratch an itch in my brain in the most satisfying way. He’s an absolute master and I adored this follow up to the beloved DRIVE MY CAR (2021).
Gonna take a stab at my personal interpretation of that ending. As the title suggests, the film deals with the idea that the natural world has no moral compass, but an order. Actions upstream affect the environment downstream. Short term profit incentives lead humans to disregard downstream effects, causing catastrophe.…
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