Delightful experiment by a filmmaker clearly excited by what he can do. Not very effective as a critique of true crime, given that it falls into its own critique. A documentary that really wanted to be a music video, clearly influenced by Kenneth Anger and Derek Jarman. Tilda is lovely as always
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The Sorrow and the Pity 1969
Excellent in examining its subjects, a treasure trove, particularly in the variety of interviewees. When speaking with fascists, Ophuls gives them enough rope with which to hang themselves and their comrades
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The Silence of the Lambs 1991
A remarkably effective, well-executed, tasteful piece of proto-fascist, transmisogynist, cop propaganda. And no, the "Bill is not a true transsexual" thing doesn't save it; that cover-your-ass move, by implicitly affirming the medicalized hierarchy of transsexuality (True Trans vs evil deceiver, a taxonomy most familiar nowadays in Blanchard's "straight, very passive" HSTS vs "fetishist" AGP dichotomy), only makes it worse. Claims otherwise are deeply insulting: don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
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It's a Wonderful Life 1946
Sentimental sop once again arguing for the superiority of suburbanite WASPs; deeply racist undercurrent. The whole message of the film "don't desire a better life. just stick in your crummy dead town and sacrifice yourself for the vulgus"
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