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Star Trek: First Contact 1996
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If this were simply a sci-fi action film, I would find it quite refreshing. But as a Star Trek film, it is overly violent and overly simplistic. Much of the charm of Next Generation is absent in favour of sweaty men carrying guns.
The writing of Lily, the black female engineer helping Cochrane, feels demeaning. She ultimately has no role in the film but to tell Picard off for his zeal. Otherwise, she is shepherded about by this eloquent tall-skulled…
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Nirvana 1997
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This film is technically rather poor; I noted that it was shot distinctively like the introduction scene of an X-Files episode, though X-Files' editing was not so hard to follow. There is some creative use of colour grading, with scenes set in the game world being almost entirely black-and-white but for certain distinctive elements, though those elements have no significance narratively...
The setting is quite European, with anxiety over the Japanese economic boom being replaced with an anxiety over migrants…
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Amélie 2001
I wrote my first review of this film immediately after watching it. Upon reflecting further, I am compelled to change my mind. Amelie certainly presents a charming vision of urban France, with its gardens and edifices and densely decorated interiors filled with vibrant colours. It is unfortunate, then, that the people in those buildings are not so colourful.
Every one of them is a Frank for whom the mysterious lands of Africa and Asia lay still far across the sea,…
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