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Past Lives 2023
This was like the soft underbelly of the Before Sunrise trilogy, but more pedantic and of our world.
I sometimes wanted to slap Nora, I think because I relate to her. Also because I can’t tell if she is a female empowered or succumbed.
It made me want to add someone as a friend on Facebook. Probably not my in-yun, so I’ll refrain.
I wanted a movie I could multitask to. This was not that (Korean is a beautiful language sonically). But it was fucking fabulous and made me want to think and write and feel. It hurt in a good way.
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The Martian 2015
My annoying ass brain: “that’s not how they did it in the book!”
Really though, Watney is soooo impressive in the book. The ingenuity. The math. The fuck ups. The science. The fuck ups. The math again. It was brilliantly interwoven with a poignant sense of humor that makes you lol.
This captured some of it. But you could tell where they sacrificed the tone of the story for the dramatic savior / (almost tragic) hero storylines.
I blame it on too much disco. Watney would too.
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Whiplash 2014
Damien Chazelle’s whip pan shots are god-tier. The use of music, obviously inherent to the plot, sets such a tone for the movie: ambition, anxiety, mania. In the way the musicians play by muscle memory, the camera in this movie seems to do the same. The editing is rhythmic.
It’s hard to tell who’s the protagonist/antagonist when you can sympathize with and feel agonized by both. After all, they’re both striving for the same goal: artistic perfection. Then, the only…
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The Pianist 2002
As a dark WWII film with a running time of 2.5 hours, The Pianist is an investment. I ventured to see it because I hadn't previously seen any feature films from Roman Polanski, and I was curious about his art (incidentally, I did later research his legal issues and don’t support him personally, but my view of this movie isn’t biased by that). The Pianist follows the life of a Jewish pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman, sensitively and charmingly played by Adrien…
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