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A Real Pain 2024
There's a humanness to how this is written and acted that I find comforting. The characters feel full, I think especially since we don't get to know everything about them. They develop, but they don't necessarily improve or regress. We're dropped into the middle of their story, and we're pulled away in the middle of their story. It's a window into their lives, and we go on a tour of Poland with them.
I don't know if people change. When…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
The pacing and storytelling isn’t bad, but it’s noticeably affected by the shoehorning of a much larger book/universe into the format of a movie. I don’t think there’s a world where this kind of compression does complete justice to the source material. I found it easy to overlook. Pacing tabled, this movie looks incredible. It’s a technical masterpiece. It’s an enormous achievement of immersion. I can’t help, days after, wandering into daydreams of Arakis’ landscape as if it’s somewhere I’ve…
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Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Deserves its reputation. Looks amazing, there's no possible way to overstate this - the tiniest insert shot will contain hundreds of lavishly dressed extras and tricks of light unfathomable, and at its best it's truly unbelievable, the platonic ideal of cinematic ambition. I'm disgustingly desensitized and this still hit me awestruck several times. Narratively subverts a colonial hero, an unbelievably rich character study and while perhaps not accurate, is still an undercut on propaganda. Speaks the language of cinema with perfect clarity, film school can't touch it. Masterpiece.
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