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Dogville 2003
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
All good art is open to more than one interpretation. It would follow that a film can communicate something beyond the director’s original intent to a viewer depending on this viewers own experiences and biases.
When Dogville was released more than 15 years ago, the most vehement critique against it was that it was anti-American. To make matters worse, it was an anti-American film made by a pretentious European (of the Northern-variety) who had never actually been to the US.…
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Amores Perros 2000
Amores Perros is a marriage between Iñarritu’s deep understanding of the many worlds residing in his hometown Mexico City and of his vignette-like plot style, weaving three separate stories together into one. While this kind of plot can often seem cliched if done badly, it is executed excellently here. In Amores Perros, Iñarritu inspects our individual capacity for evil and violence, while also understanding the ways one destiny can fold into so many others.
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Nightcrawler 2014
A dark and clever depiction of the media in the age of corporate media ownership, sensationalism, and disinformation, where often the ‘best’ journalists are the ones who write what they’re told and prefer to pay attention to suffering for profits’ sake rather than as a means to ameliorate it.
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