This movie is unsettling. Somehow it builds and builds until just watching people walking around becomes the creepiest thing ever. All the little details about nature and knowledge add layers of tension to your psyche until you are completely suffocated, and start to feel the eerie weight of Hanging Rock pressing down on you. Every societal force from every direction is mercilessly controlling. The only thing that can break those chains is Hanging Rock, and it crushes you in the process.
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May December 2023
Totally lost in the layers of this. There are no easy answers here. This movie is a pool of churning black goo, exploring the blight that traumatic events can put on everything that touches it.
Julianne Moore's Gracie lives entirely on its surface, the epitome of superficial. Unable to even acknowledge her terrible crime, let alone contemplate or dive deeper into it. Her surface is one of hot dogs and bake sales and flower arranging, living the life that generations…
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Checking Out 1988
I think it would be rare for a worthwhile comedy to fly under the radar for decades. I guess it's possible if a forgotten film somehow "is ahead of its time" and ahead of people's collective sense of humor. But does this ever happen? I think it only goes the other way somehow, with many comedies drying up and becoming stale with later audiences and a few standing the test of time by staying funny. Was "Checking Out" ever funny? Probably not. And it doesn't try to offer anything else that is worth anybody's time.
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All the Colors of the Dark 1972
Normally I like watching Satanic stuff because of the weird rituals and freaky people, and you get that here, but in this movie the Satanists were actually scary! Which I feel is rare. Equally rare is the depth of the victim, here floating through a clouded depression/anxiety existence and trying to find a way out. Also on display is a good dose of hallucination and surrealism that sinks you into the struggle if a troubled mind.
Vitamins, psychotherapy, or Satanism? Which is the right path out of your existential problems? Lol
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Mickey 17 2025
First half of the movie five stars, second half three stars. This tends to happen with Jong-ho movies, where he has an amazing set up and premise but the ending tends to be not as strong. Parasite might be the only exception.
Here we start with a great look at alienation and exploitation under capitalism, with razor wit from the script and a nuanced, unique, powerful performance from Patterson. It's a new world where all empathy and compassion have been…
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Night Moves 1975
Lots of questions pop up in Night Moves, and I dont know how many are answerable. I dont know if that's supposed to reflect on our crumbling society or not, but it is interesting to think about. Just how vile is everything we are a part of? Love the bleakness and post 60s dillusionlent.m
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