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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024
My favorite parts were where they showed old footage of the political players, Dulles, Eisenhower, Kasa Vubu, the UN general-secretary, every single person from Belgium, all these duplicitous motherfuckers lying through their teeth.
The film puts the west's dirty, grand conspiring on center stage. In a packed theatre of liberal San Franciscans priding themselves on 'knowing the terrible, real histories' a feeling of mass repugnance hung in the air.
Yet! The film also unequivocally spotlights Khrushchev and Castro as the…
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
I was thinking about writing a long piece about how this movie is Good because America, and especially the libs, of the past however many years, in its/their path to tearing itself/themselves apart, have taken down, not only patriotism but the great myth of the hero and the hero's journey alongside it (before you get Mad at me, the repubs have somehow, someway, managed to outrun the libs in their hatred of modern day 'Murica...otherwise they wouldn't have to keep…
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The Taste of Things 2023
Dodin and Eugenie cook, live, and love with unadulterated earnestness. Their love for each other is only surpassed by their mutual love for cooking and the process of creating new, transcendental tastes together.
Nearly every scene in this film is one of unapologetic love. The cooking scenes most of all. Like the elaborate dishes they create together, Dodin and Eugenie cook with a long list of ingredients: extreme meticulousness, passion for flavor, a palette refined over decades in the kitchen,…
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Vice 2018
In middle school, I desperately wanted to fit in. The problem was, as somewhat of a shy, anxious boy, the behavior of my fellow classmates confused me.
Why were they so loud? Why did the boys make such crude, unclever 'jokes'? Why did the girls giggle at the boy's dumb jokes? Was the number '69' really that funny? What did it even mean, anyway? And why were all the girls taller than me?
While I was plagued with all sorts…
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