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The Worst Person in the World 2021
This successfully fucked up my shit. Beautiful movie, really.
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Mirror 1975
Despite talk of this being Tarkovsky's magnum opus, Mirror left me feeling a bit empty-handed and empty-headed. The visuals are as stunning, and reflect the slippery logic of dreams. They way vignettes segue between each other feels very authentic to the dream state. But to me, the "pure dreamscape" aspect—like in Lynch's Inland Empire, for instance—my interest just plummets when a film is ALL dream. Having no definitie character or plot to grasp onto can be frustrating, and it's a…
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Children of Darkness 1983
A sobering look at America's treatment of mental health patients in the 1980s, at various private and public centers (residences and institutions)—including Poland, Maine's notorious and now-defunct "Elan School".
The overall portrait here is bleak. Other than a handful of moments of kindness depicted, mentally ill patients in this are abandoned, severely misunderstood, drugged for control, and in some cases, beaten (not shown on camera).
I have to wonder, with how horribly patients at Elan in particular were treated on…
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Isao Takahata and His Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2013
This doc's no "Kingdom of Dreams and Madness": it's a small doc, and doesn't even have much climax! That said, I loved watching the creative struggles Takahata had on Kaguya. He fiddled with every detail to the point of annoying his crew—kinda like Miyazaki does—but I don't see that as so bad. The dude was all about capturing authentic life in animation.
Also, there's a point in this where Takahata rambles on about having a record player with a bamboo…
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