impotence is as equally narcotic as it is violent. pusher ii explores this impotence and fear through its madcap screw-up tonny, a canvas for the grime and comedy-of-errors scenarios that make up his world. pusher ii is beautiful. sickly yellows and grain from the original pusher are succeeded by moody greens and implicitly vicious reds; this makes sense - this is a movie that isn't really built on high-stakes or a ticking clock, with the drug-deal-gone-wrong scenario serving as a…
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Pusher 1996
the genesis of refn carries his two most distinctive features - a high contrast color palette and a feverish sense of desperation. between the comical vulgarity and noisy camera, this neo-noir sticks its gritty-realist landing. one of those films that stays buzzing in your head with unease after watching it.
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Self-indulgently violent grittiness, but just lucid enough to avoid falling onto the phylum of John Wick and Sin City, this was so much fun. With it's feverish pacing and raw depictions of a amateur protagonist who has the capacity to be dangerous but struggles to actualize it, it's a distant urban cousin of Dhanush's Asuran. Beautifully shot, neon-soaked, and the some of the most refreshing hyper-violence I've seen in a while, it's main fault is it's milquetoast take on the…
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