I’ve spent a while now trying to get to the bottom of why this one just really did not work for me, and I’m still not entirely sure. What I am sure of is this: Miyazaki 100% made this film for himself first, and any sort of audience second. Honestly, there’s something comforting about the idea of someone who has become such an internationally acclaimed and universally accepted master of their craft that they are given the freedom and the…
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20 Days in Mariupol 2023
“When we were in the hospital one of the doctors told me, “War is like an X-ray: All human insides become visible."
“Good people become better, bad people become worse.”
I have always had a deep fascination with war correspondents. It’s the sort of occupation that could really only ever be taken up by someone so completely dedicated to their craft that they are willing to risk life and limb for what they rightfully believe to be an absolutely essential…
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The Menu 2022
I have to say I don’t agree at all with people saying this movie only offers a very basic commentary on how awful and vacuous the lives of the ultra-rich are. It includes this point and it makes it well, but I think it’s more specifically about the commodification of art and the world we are left with when artists become disillusioned by this never ending commodification.
While Chef Slowik’s descent into violence and revenge isn’t something that we can…
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All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
It’s a movie far more focused on sheer brutality than it is any sort of deep characterization, but not any less effective for it. Probably the most disturbing war film I’ve seen, a truly horrific descent into what it makes clear is nothing short of an absolute, irredeemable travesty for humankind. Thought It could’ve benefited more from less music, as the way the loud booming score is used to punctuate certain moments feels like a distraction at times where the…
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