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Rear Window 1954
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I recently watched Hitchcock’s Rear Window, for the first time.
I enjoyed it, but one thing bothered me: Grace Kelly’s character.
I thought Grace Kelly put on a tremendous performance, but her character grated me in the most cumbersome way.
Her character surrendered wholly to Jimmy Stewart’s character’s whims and desires, all the way to that all-too-neatly-bow-wrapped ending.
Of course, we have to keep in mind that “the times were such,” and all that. But her character was so clearly a fantasy vision constructed by a male writer(s), that as a viewer in 2020, it distracted from what is otherwise a wonderful technical achievement.
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Burning 2018
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Burning (2018)
A film (seemingly) about the anatomy of a murder.
Take the anxiety of youth ascending into adulthood, the frustration of unemployment, the emptiness of a broken home, a father with a history of anger/violence, a pinch of writer’s block, and top it off with sexual frustration – and what do you have? A fire that burns so hot within – that one could thrust a knife into live human flesh, over and over again.
A fire so powerful,…
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Stalker 1979
There is a certain expectation I have when I sit down to watch a movie. My instincts, honed from hours and hours of practice, turn into habits that filter what I am seeing, hearing, and feeling. After all, I’ve sat down a thousand times in front of the screen before. That is the baggage I carry into each viewing - I may not have seen this one yet, but I have seen others before, and I am certain I will…
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