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The Florida Project 2017
into the realism, great use of locations, but I couldn't help but feel that scenes and beats with heightened emotional content could’ve been more restrained and wound up detracting from the realist form
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Jesus Revolution 2023
Disclaimer: I was manipulated into seeing this by my family
In short, drugs are bad; Jesus is good. Just another in a long line of Christian movies that further the illusion of Christian persecution where there is none.
Update: just learned that the most essential character to this Jesus movement was a closeted gay man and when he came out he was removed from the church and this movie covered all of that up. Queer erasure trash. Hate it even more now.
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The Train to Moscow 2013
As a product of the United States educational system, I was kept from experiencing gems of history like the World Festival of Socialist Youth to the point where uncovering a film like this offers a certain kind of transcendence over what is for a what could be. The home video footage ranges from exalted seas of human bodies to abstract light displays resulting in an eloquent exploration of the complex realizations of unity, hope and utopia. Patience is a virtue for any audience member, but alas, a padded runtime is a padded runtime. I wish this were meatier.
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