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The Parallax View 1974
Despite its winding story, The Parallax View is a grounded and focussed tragedy that confronts the gluttonous and overreaching hand of the modern corporation and governments that are complicit in their cruelty.
Slightly disjointed at times but held together by Beatty. Also, has to be one of the best looking films of all time, the cinematography is stunning, the use of colour, setting and composition is perfection.
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Fish Tank 2009
Captures a place in time so vividly. The arrested development of naughties England and the frustration of teenage stagnation within it are replicated so painfully in Fish Tank.
Mia is so well developed and explored by Arnold, you feel her pain and the tragedy of her inability in this repressed world. Incredible leading performance too. Cinematography is nothing short of stunning, elevates the emotion and the drama of every sequence without fail and looks beautiful while doing so too.
Throughout there’s a fluidity and a constant draw to the jeopardy and the beauty that intermingle so seamlessly, making it a very hard film to pin.
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Oppenheimer 2023
You can question the hype around it all you want but whatever way you spin it, Oppenheimer is deserved of the attention. Because Nolan bounces back from Tenet with such aplomb, delivering a horrifyingly explosive film that existentially explores themes of injustice, life, death, guilt, suffering and power and terrifies you by underlining the weight of authority that a select few wield over the fate of those before them.
In Tenet, I felt Nolan really struggled when trying to balance…
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