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The Future 2011
quirk for quirk’s sake and twee for twee’s sake. cool premise though. miranda july is phenomenal at writing dialogue. hate the fact that the cat has a voice and it had to sound like that. barely tipped to 3 1/2 bc Beach House in the soundtrack.
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Take Out 2004
Sean Baker had already mastered what he was trying to do in Anora and it was with this.
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list of thoughts floating around my head:
1) Saidiya Hartman in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments describes how after the Page Act of 1875, Asian American men are forced to immigrate without their wives. The legal impact of that legislation on the social terrain echoes into the present. Its tenor and consequences continue to resonate through this film.
2) Lauren Berlant; I'm…
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Anora 2024
feels more like a first draft than a final product. it does its job but seems to be missing out on so much given the premises the story sets up.
the most coherent line of thought i can take away from this is with the assistance of Lauren Berlant. Ani grapples with the promise of the "good life", which is primarily defined by monogamous marriage, only to realize that fulfilling its rubric catalyzes her own unraveling. put differently, Ani's attachment…
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