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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
I'm usually patient with films that distance the viewer so they question fictions that cloud a higher truth or reflect about their mode of viewing. Even if it's just one idea driven forward, if it's consequential I can take a little bit of torture.
Todd Phillips bored me out of my mind here in the service of, well, nothing.
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La Haine 1995
Hubert, Said y Vinz se mueven como heridas abiertas. Se arremeten con la impotencia de saber que el mundo los quiere muertos y que la paz se acaba en segundos. Quisieran controlar de alguna manera la violencia para que deje de hostigarles: compran una pistola para al menos poder matar, le juegan al buena onda con los policías o se agarran de a golpes para que no les ganen primicia.
LA HAINE me conmovió porque, en los momentos de paz,…
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Twisters 2024
Two hours of attractive men talking about Kate’s talent, intelligence and their desire to heap her with acts of service. Screenwriting maxim: whenever she’s not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Kate?” A key scene features her working through trauma by virtue of a man pressing her down securely against a hard surface.
Hetero wish fulfillment… i’m so jealous tbh
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Weekend 2011
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
When Glen convinces Russell to play-act coming out I always cry, predictably.
Glen hones in on Russell’s pain, opens up a vulnerable portal, becomes the object of transference, lets him work things out through a script. It’s so sweet and it’s also a bit of a miracle, as these things are.
A flashlight through all of the calcified, useless muck no one deserves to pile up. A partner deciding to be kind, again and again, until the neurons start to…
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