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Lost Highway 1997
a completely disquieting evil resides in this film. more than any other lynch film, the nightmare creatures and surreal embodiments of human fears feel very present and real, understood in the world of the movie as completely literal terrors that warn of the real effects of symbols. modern folklore in which paranoia invites unreal violence into the real world of your own home.
most of all, we see the part that surveillance and recording plays in creating the loop of…
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Wild at Heart 1990
finding love in hell. paranoia intertwined with euphoria: mania-like ecstasy as a flickering delusion molded from a basis of suffering and complete lack of grounding. love as the ultimate source / form of this hallucination. treating american archetypes and values as though in a genre of complete fantasy, exaggerating them to the point of removing familiarity altogether… allowing contemporary america to become romantic and terrifying on film in a way that is closer to the actual emotional experience of it.…
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Pulse 2001
completely disorganised thoughts from my notes while i couldn’t sleep after watching this movie:
one of the most chilling and realised portrayals of human loneliness i have ever seen. offers the isolation of the soul as an inescapable trait of humanity, and posits that the internet can be the fatal magnifier of this truth, to the point of apocalypse. the invention of human language itself can be inferred as the conception of this dilemma, and the inability to properly reach…
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Ghost in the Shell 1995
when the advent of computers made the externalisation of memory possible, you should have taken its meaning more seriously
tho nothing new thematically to modern cyberpunk viewers, this is arguably the nexus for audiovisual articulations of Humanity Anxiety in relation to rapid developments in computer technology. offers a succinct - and most importantly beautiful, both in animation and ASTOUNDING soundtrack - expression of human-as-ship-of-theseus ideas, while provoking thought about the requirements of life, self, and memory.
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