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The Working Class Goes to Heaven 1971
Like other politically-inclined films of the 1970s, The Working Class Goes to Heaven reflects on the student-worker movements that began in the 1960s. Yet unlike other films of lesser quality, Petri does not opt for moralism or easy solutions. Between the film's various factions, there are no "good guys" for the audience to easily align themselves with. We are introduced to everyday workers (the main character, LuLu), students revolutionaries, and trade union leaders, yet the film ultimately reveals how each…
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Poor Things 2023
The first half of this movie has a lot of potential. The idea of a baby-person serves as an interesting plot device and the film’s surrealist society in which there is a general malleability of the human body is fresh enough (reminds me of a combo Frankestein-Croneberg plot with the widespread quasi-sexual play of surgery). The first half also features a few interesting characters that have the potential to move beyond their cliche archetype. There is the eunuch mad scientist…
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