Kiki's is quite strangely, if consistently, paced. Early on I felt it coming and, indeed, the delivery career is made without too many deliveries. Rich third act, bringing back characters I did and didn't notice while delivering new themes. A lot of the watching joy comes from the love of craft on display: There are plenty of scenes with plot, but where the motion of the cats is more the point.
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Oppenheimer 2023
Nolan films have a certain brute weight which I am technically vulnerable to at baseline. Any reminding is of Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World: There are circles around several ideas both personally and truly Important. Nolan-time and the interview/flashback didn't work as layered. The former didn't add anything and the two schemas obviously conflict. Oppenheimer fully delivers on its length and premise, with a handful of transcendent sequences. Thrill of discovery; Convincing oneself of anything; Grinding noise…
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Groundhog Day 1993
Groundhog Day has always existed for me as a kind of mythological object re: Bill Murray, so I didn't expect it to be nearly as good as it is. Doing a time loop without much movie-tech trickery is great; We ride on just the narrative. I figured the third-act switch of focus to and then away from death would hurt things, but it happily did not.
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Ghostbox Cowboy 2018
It's a big "if", but if we're the zombies when we can't go to the shopping mall any more, what affordances are we left? Ghostbox Cowboy is a cruel, cruel mirror; Rather than a mirror, interpolated footage from a surveillance camera and a drone on opposite sides of the world. It affected me in much the same way Melancholia did, but with regard to entrepreneurship and not depression. This one will be sticking with me a long time. I'm very glad that the familiarity ended near enough to the end.
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