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The Brutalist 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
First question: why should I care for a beauty that is only there when people aren’t? Whose is the eye that sees only perfect, divine forms and not (our) crooked, early ones?
Fascist AestheticsRead cautiously and at a distance, we might see this as an allegory of the shadow of Fascism lurking in the anxiety of American capitalism. Fascism is, at least sentimentally, a rage against capitalism and modernity’s alienation, and it is horrific precisely because it seeks to…
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The Substance 2024
There’s a difference, one that matters a lot, between the representation of violence, and the violence of representation. And, sadly, although this movie is heavy-handed with representing violence, it falls oblivious to the power relations the camera itself is part of (not entirely, but even in the haunting presence of the billboard and the hilarious frame-by-frame body examination, the violence inflicted on the body is revealed as what’s displayed in film image but is not embedded in the way that…
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