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The Whale 2022
at the end you cry for two reasons:
1) because you realized in what aggressively manipulative and artificial ways the whole plot developed, especially in the last third; like here is a movie that thinks it's saying something honest and true while blatantly toying with you (maybe there's some deep irony here, like the movie thinks it's answering the desperate call of its protagonist to write about something honest and true but going about it in a completely manipulative way...)…Translated from by -
The Thing 1982
I find it remarkable how this movie manages to seriously and wholeheartedly commit to the absurdity and insanity of what is shown on screen while at the same time being a prime example of the weaponization of ambiguity through what happens off screen. For every absurdly malformed transformation that is shoved lovingly right in our face, there are assimilations, as well as deaths, taking place outside of scenes and characters disappearing from the movie for certain amounts of time; all…
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Retribution 2006
i love how kurosawa’s ghosts sway between what is familiar and what is unfamiliar so eerily. familiar feelings through unpredictable movements.
the lady in red appears almost always in half-forgotten places, places not totally abandoned, but not really lived in either, in a world that is already half-dead; muddy harbor landscapes, rusty construction sites, crumbling wallpaper. the world is already a sort of wasteland, everything is run down, even the protagonist’s appartment. and she is literally seeping through the cracks.…Translated from by -
A Woman Under the Influence 1974
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
when she gets back home and takes a moment to embrace her kids again for the first time and the hyperrealism almost breaks down; like, the camera stays so close to her and the children that there are only extreme close-ups of faces and hands, partly blurred; it’s as if the camera is almost getting smooshed between their hugs and kisses, trying desperately to capture the overwhelming closeness and affection; like it knows, it shouldn’t even be there. it's a moment of such unbearable intimacy; almost too much to be captured at all.
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