MasterOblong

MasterOblong

Forgive me for the shitty name it came from a wu tang generator

Favorite films

  • Andrei Rublev
  • Ikiru
  • Children of Men
  • The Battle of Algiers

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  • Phantom Thread

    ★★★★★

  • L.A. Confidential

    ★★

  • Ring

  • Office Space

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  • Phantom Thread

    Phantom Thread

    ★★★★★

    Paul Thomas Anderson made me fall in love with cinema for the first time around 5 years ago. I just remembered why. One of the best films I’ve ever seen.

  • Office Space

    Office Space

    Remembered this as more radical, but still quite good

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  • Apocalypse Now

    Apocalypse Now

    ½

    How anyone can "appreciate this movie aesthetically" is so fucking violent. The film relies on the Othering of the Vietnamese freedom fighters, and its inevitable role of the Subject of the white person. Though it comes off superficially "critical", it nonetheless places the agency in a white supremacist fashion. And then the last sequence is so brutally colonialist it is astounding how fucking high of reviews this movie gets, absolutely fucking disgusting.

  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ½

    The entire conception of Batman necessitates a strange irony where a hyper-capitalist whose means of production involves the creation of conditions of “criminality” is seen as a white-saviour-esque hero to restore “law” and “order”. Criminality is reduced to a bourgeois notion of “morality”, where the schizoid identity of Bruce Wayne and Batman seeks to paint the rich playboy billionaire as a secret crusader of justice, yet there is no distinction between the two If Batman was truly seeking justice it…

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