I loved this - I haven't seen other films set in the deep south that have this authentic, lived in feeling, and that don't pull any punches in capturing poverty and racism - and showing the connection between the two. I appreciate how it depicts a kind of economic regime in which black men are compelled to be extroverted and emotionally transparent to earn their place at the table. How humiliating, but also how exhausting it must have been!
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The Champion 1957
A 1957 Nikkatsu technicolor boxing and dance film shot in 4:3 ratio. How could it not be good? It didn't quite achieve a complexity of dramatic crosscurrents that I would have hoped for, but it's so refreshing to observe a box on the screen in which every corner of the frame seems to be brimming with energy and expressiveness.
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Women Talking 2022
Disethnography - an exercise in cinematic lifelessness. The characters here don't breathe, they don't exist as muscle and bone in agrarian time and space. They are ciphers for the educated and affluent writers and producers that made the movie. I understand that the Polley is trying to spin a universal yarn, but by using stilted language, perfectly coded in contemporary liberal terms, over authentic and colorful language, it plays more like a bad episode of Star Trek.
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Oppenheimer 2023
I felt like I was watching a three hour long trailer put together with unflagging propulsive energy, excessively on-point dialogue, and absurd levels of sonic accentuation when characters are speaking, as if Nolan thinks it would be possible to create something more dramatic than great actors performing a great script in real time and space. No soul, no respiration, and no cracks in the Hollywood gloss to observe anything spontaneous or incongruous. Would have been a better movie if it…
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