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Forrest Gump 1994
They Live but without the glasses.
Seriously though, it's no wonder that this movie is a certified Boomer-classic because it's rife with the selfsame 'pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps' attitude some of them believe in to this day. It's mindblowing how absurd the subliminals are in this movie: constantly portraying Gump's mindless obedience to the status quo as a virtue whilst abhorring everything and everyone that dares doubt let alone challenge the powers that be.
It's an incessant barrage of: 'See! If even Forrest…
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Ordet 1955
If I could summarize this movie in one word it would be 'fake'. It pretends to ask important questions about faith, but at no point is there any doubt about what the director believes. The questions posed are not posed because the director intends to challenge Christianity, but to set up a false conflict that will eventually be resolved by God's miracle anyway. Imagine how interesting this film would have been if it simply stuck to questioning without answering. If…
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All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
I did not expect a movie about the chaos and terror of war to be so dreadfully boring.
I enjoy slow movies, but I only enjoy them if their slowness is commensurate to the atmosphere they create or the point they make. This is not the case with All Quiet on the Western Front, which is one of the most self-indulgent movies I have ever watched; so much so that it felt like I was actively participating in a trench…
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