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Gladiator II 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The film, though imbalanced compared to its predecessor, presents Lucius as a compelling figure of inevitable legacy. A popcorn film with Hamletian undertones, it explores themes of filial obligation, vengeance, involuntary homecomings, and masculine heroism - falling short of fully unpacking them.
Rome is somewhat accurately depicted as a corrupt empirical power and a cosmopolitan hub of trade, general poverty, brutal spectacle, and imperial ambition. The excesses in AI and “performances-within-performances” come across as awkward and unrealistic when they…
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Saltburn 2023
Oliver is a pathogen. Explores carnivorous voyeurism and the extremes of envy. Completely rejects the potential of class criticism (these are Oxford Uni students staying in a Northern English estate) and instead only scratches the surface of Renaissance/Shakespearean themes of masks, disguise and deceit (Midsummer Night’s Dream/folios referenced). Characters are one-dimensional and unrelatable, mostly antagonistic. Ambiance overall felt like a fantasy, perhaps ploy to keep an overstimulated audience at a distance throughout. Excellent acting and subtle dialogue, up until the final culmination where all is made far too explicit, perhaps the most Shakespearean it gets tragedy-wise.
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