Another title from my Paint Drying post recommendation list! Byultaku suggested to pick a film from their list of South African cinema, which I gladly did, though Five Fingers for Marseilles weren't really my first choice but the one I managed to find to watch online.
The film explores that dubious/double legacy of violence as means employed in the fight for liberation. On the one hand, the film asks, if someone really can be a "freedom fighter" at all or…
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she kicked out the sexiest man alive from her bedroom for no reason? "used" him to make a baby cause he is pretty and then just let him go? why does she need a pretty baby (they also imply that she is ugly which isn't the case, but even if she was it doesn't answer that question)? why she wants her child to be without a father? why is she an evil schemer all of a sudden and completely out…
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From ancient times people would refer to orgasm as "la petite mort", or "a little death". During climax one can experience brief loss of consciousness, a moment of oblivion, disintegration of one's ego. Sex like death becomes a road to self-destruction ("I thought that if I f*cked anyone I would die" - Adam), you must let go of your self and give up all guard, submit to the other and be united in one. Death is how we, all separated…
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Courtroom procedural dramas, along with such genres as detective mysteries or police procedurals, want a viewer to take the side of a state, to adapt a state gaze, while assuming it's a natural thing and the only right thing to do. Anatomy of a Fall subverts this approach and does everything in its power for you to side with the family whose members are being prosecuted by state agents. We never see law enforcement workers unless they are being seen…
