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Plastic China 2016
An interesting case study of China's 2000s to 2010s middle-class Zeitgeist of aspiring to upward social mobility, and patriarchal regimes of development. It effectively visualises its own criticisms of ecological paternalism, and manages to communicate the stories of its characters empathetically without engaging in gratuitous amounts of poverty porn like others in its particular sub-genre of ecocinema. Props also to showcasing plastic pollution without accidentally aestheticising it - a difficult thing to do these days, apparently. I'm looking at you, Samsara.
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All That Breathes 2022
A beautiful and poetic story that all of the Northern Indian Subcontinent can relate to. Sen relays the issue of climate degradation in a way that transcends the "information dump" and planetary-level discourse in favour of a tale of personal initiative and the human drive for stewardship towards little creatures.
His use of dreamy imagery that paints a delicate yet uncaring world of more-than-human creatures against a backdrop of anthropogenic violence and urban decay. He provides a vivid visual allegory…
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Chime 2024
I'm not sure if this shorter production from Kurosawa was meant to be a filler project or if he's collecting money for a better feature script to be produced at a later date, but this film left me pretty disappointed. It employs many of the same tropes that Kurosawa fans in particular, and horror fans in general, will be able to recognize and predict the beats of to a tee.
Optimistically, the latter half of the film could be interpreted…
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Robot Dreams 2023
The presence of the twin towers in the movie disproves the existence of Anim-Al Qaeda
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