jacksilent

jacksilent

Favorite films

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Brick
  • The Place Beyond the Pines
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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  • The Monkey

    ★★★½

  • Skate Kitchen

    ★★½

  • Lost Girls

    ★★★

  • Tetris

    ★★★★

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★½

    Sup Dumb shit

    Fun ride of a movie it did feel like 2 movies trying to be in one. With a serious horror film plaguing these twin boys lives and the surreal slap stick comedy of certain deaths in response by breaking or totally disrupting the tension. 
    Simular to the idea of “The Barbarian” but as subtle and funny for the viewer. The monkey makes visual jokes that the world sees and interacts almost to a parody level of a…

  • Skate Kitchen

    Skate Kitchen

    ★★½

    I’ll use the words from slap

    Kids: Urban Outfitters Edition

    Mad cheese. But it's "empowering women", so we must stay quiet and nod agreeably.

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    It has good intentions showing the challenges and different experiences while showing what the young culture is up to, talking, dressing, partying, they're rooms and talking shit like, but to me it can’t feel authentic when empowering the view of girls holding their place in skateboarding and one of the biggest drama points is fighting…

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  • The 400 Blows

    The 400 Blows

    ★★★★

    You ask for a 1000. Therefore you hope for 500. Therefore you need 300. Here's 100.

    Adolescent wondering and testing of society.

  • La Haine

    La Haine

    ★★★★★

    So simple but yet so impactful. The film holds a message relatable by the characters expression of feeling disrespected and brash action. Their thoughts in methods of philosophy and impulses of morals believed upon makes their youthful angst. All while passing through the streets with their mates.
    Real actions and real responses of people that would be found dwelling in those allys. Scenes felt alive with the tracking camera following the characters tight from moments of joking around comrody to instant…