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High and Low 1963
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Should have focused on the criminal after the first act. It felt promising when we see him at his small apartment, hearing on the radio about people's sympathies for Mifune's Gondo and when right before that we see those two cops walk past Gondo’s house, agreeing with the criminal's sentiments about how looking at his house does kind of make you mad, like it's looking down at you. But this wasn't interested in that side, this was interested in Gondo…
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Not a Pretty Picture 1976
The behind the scenes-material was really interesting, but the movie within the movie felt like an educational video of some kind with mediocre acting and long-winded, boring dialogue. Almost like it was made just for that purpose, to be a movie within a movie, and not one that could stand on its own. And well, barely did here with the other material, but that other material elevated this, like I said.
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A Whole Night 1982
The two strangers slow dancing in the bar after impulsively jumping into each other's arms before even speaking to one another was a fine moment and had that desired longing, desperate romantic-vibe (it had a nice song which helped as well), but really the only such moment for me. This peaked then. After that no encounter got to that kind of feeling; a lot the moments felt unremarkable and went by too quick, since this had too many characters and…
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Close-Up Long Shot 1996
This 40-minute documentary shows some insight on what Hossain Sabzian's life is like few years after Abbas Kiarostami's Close Up and tells what led to it. Sabzian looks kind of thinned and gray haired and he has some low-key job under a guy who used to work under him before all the stuff happened. Some people who know the guy tell their sides on the guy and the business with the movie and the whole stuff about Sabzien pretending to…
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The Measure of a Man 2015
I wish there would be more unemployed characters in movies. There should be more movies like this, which pretty accurately deal with the matter, but also just characters altogether, who are unemployed without labeling them as lazy or making it an unlikable trait, like it's all their own fault. I feel like this hardly ever happens and the same goes for the portrayals of shy and socially inept (the main character here isn't like that, but I am, so it…
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