Recent reviews

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  Don't Look Up 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2022

  2/365 | "I'm the fucking chief of staff boy with the dragon tattoo"

  McKay apparently wrote this before the covid pandemic. It's a superb film that's a reflective take on society, with some calling it an allegory to climate change or the Covid-19 Pandemic. People didn't like it, apparently (it's too hard hitting, but "things don't have to be fucking pleasant"). As always, Leo is screaming at something and Jen gets in on that too. The performance all round was…

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  When Nietzsche Wept 2007

  ★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2022

  1/365 | "We Are More In Love With Desire Than The Desired"

  It's a bit ambitious given the production quality (which wasn't that good). The acting was a bit superfluous, as if the cast was trying to overcompensate with their fake accents and over the top expressions and gestures, especially Katheryn Winnick.

  That said, it's a film about ideas. Dr. Bruer + Dr. Freud and Nietzsche never met, but the attempt to intermingle a breakthrough in western philosophy with the birth of psychoanalysis was an interesting one.