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Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions 2020
The “T” in Taylor Swift stands for therapy.
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Blue Steel 1990
Thematically, I respect what the movie is going for. It’s a social commentary of being a woman in a male-dominated industry, the male gaze and also the professional and psychological misogyny in the late 80s/early 90s.
Jamie Lee Curtis was committed. Ron Sliver was hella scary. Kathryn Bigelow also directed the hell out of it — especially the last sequence.
But I have fundamental issues with how it plays out. Turner is absolutely written to be so in-ept that I…
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I'm Still Here 2024
There's a moment in "I'm Still Here" when Eunice showered after coming back from the torture in prison due to publicly inquiring about her husband's abduction. Before that, there wasn't any indication of violence inflicted on her other than blood on the floor when she was questioned by the police. Yet, from the eyes of her daughter Eliana, also arrested for 24 hours, we saw all the physical marks on Eunice's body.
But however painful those marks were, Eunice never…
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The Brutalist 2024
It’s hard to watch The Brutalist and not get swept away by its technical merits. Every frame, every cut, every sound bites, Brady Corbet knows exactly what he wants to communicate and how he would evoke feelings from his audience. Yet, even with those calculations, the film never loses a beat in its heartfelt approach to tell the American Dream story in the most brutally honest way imagined. What amazing performances by Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce.
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