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Extraction 2020
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If The Raid was a violent action movie about how to get into a fortress of a house controlled by a drug cartel, Extraction is a violent action movie about how to get out of a city controlled by a drug cartel. Tyler Rake demolishes whole blocks of buildings, kills villages of people, and beats up entire gangs of streetchildren. Interesting how the contemporary action genre tends to counterbalance extreme masculinity and violence with a weak spot for children (A…
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It's a Wonderful Life 1946
There is an infinite number of details I love about this movie. The best of emotional manipulation Capra can offer. Just a few points for the sake of respect.
1. The overall narrative of ethical capitalism exemplified around the concept of home ownership and debt. The movie manages to make George Bailey hold educational sermons about the economy of borrowing and the sense of sharing the risk for mutual benefits in the community. This nostalgic new dealism was made relevant…
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Parasite 2019
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Social relations are factual but they manifest themselves in metaphorical, fantastical, almost magical ways. In Parasite Bong Joon Ho carefully dissects these layers, places and signs: from the basement to the study, from Korean wons paid by the hour to the fortune bringing stone, from traumatic poverty hiding in plain sight to the rich kid, Da-song actually seeing ghosts.
The current era's fraudster has to be a tricky storyteller, perpetuating the tale of eternal social order and the natural contentment…Translated from by
