"every story is a contemplation of our own mortality"
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X-Men: First Class 2011
Team Magneto: Pride w/ resentment
Team Xavier: Shame w/ compassion...?Translated from by -
The Summit of the Gods 2021
how the hell some drawings made us all sweaty-palmed 🙇🏻♀️ quietly brilliant meditation on the Big-T Truth of a person, of everything yum
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
when I was first learning "how to watch movies," Scorsese's work drew me in with his vigorous pacing and immersive drama, uniquely both intellectually stimulating and entertaining. but by his mid-2010s stuff, left a sour taste in my mouth for the dizzying excess that I didn't find particularly productive (yes, we get it already - the wolf of wall st was batshit out of control on a seemingly endless downward spiral; do we really have to show them throwing little…
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Inherent Vice 2014
HA! I've been raging against my struggle to understand or enjoy PTA as an uninitiated viewer, but I think I get it now. Whether I like it or not, whether I think it's a valuable/responsible addition to our cultural discourse or not, I do see that PTA is a master of depicting CONTEMPT.
(a) Scenes of characters acting out their humorously petty contempt towards each other.
(b) PTA's directorial attitude being one of contempt (but almost like... affectionate contempt!?) for…
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