Truly impeccable vibes. The visuals are incredibly lush, the story of recalling ones' past/ancestors while preparing to immigrate is quite unique and very evocative, and the music has a nostalgic/retro early 90s vibe that enhances the whole experience. It's actually somewhat unfortunate that the 2nd most popular review of this film on this website rips into the soundtrack right out the gate. However, I'm guessing that the 2016 restoration did a lot to improve the sound mixing? And yes, it…
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Hard Candy 2005
Bizarre movie. Predator becomes the prey, yada yada yada... I believe that this is one of those rare instances of a film where instead of thinking "they don't make 'em quite like this anymore", it's a little bit more like "huh, they're probably not allowed to make them like this anymore". Just too dang perverse and morally grey. That being said, I thought it was pretty great. Uncomfortable, toe-curling horror. And yes, I'm sure that they label it as a…
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Love and Anarchy 1973
Not sure whether I've seen a film about old-school anarchism before so this was pretty interesting! I hadn't quite realized this before but it seems like modern Western media frequently reduces a whole political philosophy down to the symbolic Graffiti encircled "A" symbol along with punk fashion imagery? Pretty silly and reductive. Can't say that this film goes too much into the nitty gritty of the philosophy but it was compelling nonetheless.
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Dogfight 1991
Cute! Very sleazy as well but the sleaze balanced out by a good amount of tenderness and more insightful moments.
A lot of this revolves around pairing earnestness and empathy with a central critique of misogyny but it comes off slightly tepid in my opinion. Although it doesn't excuse the young men and brush it off wirh some "boys will be boys" type of thing, the critique isn't exactly scathing and it doesn't get a whole lot of elaboration.
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