Benjamin Franklin is by far the weirdest and most intriguing Founding Father. It's just so surreal to think, "Oh yeah, the guy on the $100 bill also invented batteries, and that's not even close to one the main reasons he's famous." I think Ken Burns does a good job of demonstrating how strange it must've been to have a group of people in a room, plotting to overthrow their government, and then all the sudden a worldwide celebrity waltzes in,…
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The Loveless 1981
fun things to do in 1950s America according to The Loveless: brood angstily in diners, play a cool game where you and your friends take turns throwing knives at each other's feet, hang out in bars where all the locals gather round to watch car crash footage and get way too excited, use the occurrence of brutally violent and life altering events unfolding directly in front of yourself and a bunch of terrified bystanders to practice aura farming
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The Brutalist 2024
imagine my disappointment when I discovered that Doylestown, PA was a real place but that it doesn't actually have an enormous community center / chapel / gymnasium / library constructed in the brutalist style and named after a crazy evil rich dude's dead mother. What's even the point of visiting Pennsylvania now?
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The Substance 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
using the soundtrack from Vertigo when the Monstro's getting dressed up was a great touch and couldn't think of a better track to encapsulate the tone of that scene and the film overall. both films enamored by the idea of idealized version of a person that does not exist. one projecting onto the Other and one projecting onto the Self. a protagonist driven to monstrosity because they cannot face inconvenient truths that lie behind the blinders of a fantasy.
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