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Researching reactionary cultural production and cycles of cultural remasculinisation
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Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994
Watched the Friends wedding episode like the day before this so what was going on in the nineties that there was so much media about embarrassing poor women at the altar to declare love (accidentally or purposefully) to someone else? Other than that a very charming very bumbling Hugh Grant lays down the track most of his subsequent performances would follow (to greater or lesser success). Funeral segment was much sadder than I thought because I loved that queen. Andie…
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Mickey 17 2025
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Lots to say about this so these are preliminary thoughts I may edit into something cohesive tomorrow.
A great film about the disposability of human capital, of the ease with which capital disposes of proletarian and sub-proletarian workers in service of profit, settlement, technological and scientific advancement etc.
Mickey 18 as the thunderous Id to Mickey 17's yelping ego but beyond that this is a re-emergence of the split protagonist film so prevalent in the late 90s and which emerges,…
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The Brutalist 2024
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Monumental.
Sat on this overnight to organise my thoughts but I have so much to say about this and think through further so these are still fairly scattershot.
This is a film about the political and cultural economy of post-war America and creative production generally. That the construction of a building, like the making of a film, can only be realised at scale with massive investments of capital, is centralised. The contradictions and clashes inherent in that relationship are laid…
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The Seventh Seal 1957
Beautiful meditation on life, death, and the afterlife but I was particularly struck by the representations of Folk-Catholicism with that fascinating pagan hangover of spirits, devils, angels, and visions.
Another wonderful film dealing with how to represent and understand Faith. What it means to believe in something that never speaks back, never affirms its existence, and to do so when facing the end of all that is familiar and known...as Death says "I am unknowing".
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