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Blue Velvet 1986
I don’t know if you’re a detective or a pervert
That’s really the central point of the film — how thin is the line? Lynch knows there’s wrongness everywhere in the dreamy American idyll. He takes all the tropes of a happy-go-lucky detective saving a damsel in distress before subverting them gleefully with moments that are truly shocking. Perhaps you’re not supposed to get it or decode it, the weirdness is there because it’s always there. There’s no such thing…
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Apocalypse Now 1979
Immediately easy to forget that such a visually striking film has its roots in a novel so peppered with murky prose. However on a second glance Conrad’s choice to avoid description — with the images Marlow sees often being ‘indescribable’ or ‘unimaginable’ — seems to match up quite well with the shadowy half world which Vietnam quickly becomes. What better way to capture The Horror…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
The pinnacle of well written dialogue. A fine appreciation of the power of silence and less being more with regards to the script.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
A cautionary tale as to why you shouldn’t date girls who dye their hair.
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