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The Double Life of Véronique 1991
Capturing something outside the frame. This goes beyond a mood or an idea. It’s a true feeling and meditation on life and death, and the pursue of a metaphysical connection.
Veronique’s double life in Poland and how those connections are manifested through mystical clues. A string, a ball, a piece of music. Veronique is starved for this connection and so when Alexander who may as well be a stand in for the director or an artist offers her some meaning…
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Winter Light 1963
If in the passion of Anna we go with a little more secular and humanist point of view of the nature of God: Love. Winter light is trying to expand upon the idea. And while it deals with ideas such as God and hope, I think it all comes from a secular point of view as well. Exploring the role of humanity in its own salvation. Humanism does not necessarily exclude theism, and theism doesn’t exclude humanism. One and the…
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The Beast 2023
Just like Inland Empire did for Hollywood machine, this does for the internet and the disassociating and alienating technology of today and the future. Perhaps better to say, the way that technology and our loneliness go together.
Yes, it calls back to Eternal Sunshine, In the mood for love, 2046, Could Atlas, Inland Empire, Twin Peaks, Crimes of the future, etc. etc. most importantly it creates a similar feeling of the woman in trouble story and explores how alienation and…
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Munich 2005
Well directed. Complicated but not necessarily complex. Seems to fall down in the category of vengeance is bad and kills the soul and starts with showing some sympathy for the Israeli side that deteriorates as the killings go on. Spielberg usually criticized for his tendency to melodrama and emotional simplification in areas that are perhaps more nuanced will have similar critiques here. Maybe even too of a centrist point of view, but to me it’s more of a Jewish point…
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The Violin 2005
A very grounded take on the guerrillas in southern Mexico fighting for their own land and dignity.
The movie is basically this odyssey to try to get some ammunition out of the village after the military have taken it over. Then it becomes a meditation on music, art, rebellion, tragedy, and more.
The soldiers while bastards are also human, the guerrilleros while scrappy, untrained. The film uses a beautiful black and white cinematography style that really emphasizes the light and…
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Let's Eat 2020
A movie about cycles and about appreciating your parents and the role of food in relationships. How acts of love are demonstrated through food which is passed on generationally. For all the focus on food, it's also rather flat on that aspect. Feels kind of surface level and emotionally forced but the point is clear. At the same time, it's a nice short, animation is ok. So, if you're looking for an easy to watch short that really tries hard to pull at your heartstrings this will do. How successful it is, not sure.
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