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Cure 1997
Sister netted me this & my girlfriend netted me Oldboy for Christmas! Got Iya Howl's Moving Castle since she loves Ghibli, so if you see me logging a load of Miyazaki movies at some point.. she's likely the reason. I figured a Cure rewatch would be a fantastic way to end 2024. I don't really have anything new to add that I haven't already brought up in the past Kiyoshi Kurosawa reviews (in regard to what makes his stuff so dreadfully unique), so I'll just leave this at wishing everyone a great 2025!
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In the Mood for Love 2000
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The warm color palette, slow & intimate camera pans, attractive leads, WKW's disinterest in even bothering to detail Chow & Chan's spouses, and beautiful soundtrack are all pieces that are in place for a seemingly sweet love story... and yet, it never truly comes to fruition. Touch is restrained to commonplace formalities, dialogue is full of worry & fear, eyes seldom meet lovingly, and there's various external factors that further dampen the budding of this relationship. It's gorgeously personal, yet still so dissociative…
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Princess Mononoke 1997
There's something so charming about 90's anime. Studio Ghibli in particular has always had some absolutely stunning animation & creative direction, and it's no different here. The allegorical nature of finding moral balance entwines itself into the visual presentation in a manner that's almost immediately apparent. Men are often dismembered at even the simplest blow, animals cough up seemingly gallons of blood, explosions & simple gunfire rock the screen, and the destructive aftermath of war almost entirely fills the frame of any…
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