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Metropolitan 1990
"I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking."
Entre esperando una satira divertida, fria, ironica, y bien despectiva, pero me termine encontrando con una pelicula coming of age. Obvio que esta todo el aspecto satirico, los protagonistas son toda gente con plata, ignorantes, pseudo-intelectuales, aburridos, sin mucha direccion, medio inutiles, etc etc. Y en ese sentido es muy graciosa. Pero tambien es compasiva. Estas pelis…
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Paprika 2006
(No real spoilers but still I don’t recommend reading unless you’ve seen it)
“It’s the truth that came from fiction. Always remember that.”
Paprika is about fiction.
Dreams, movies, and our performative identity as fictions which, through their externality to our “real” selves, provide a space where we’re allowed to express certain parts of ourselves that we wouldn’t get to express otherwise. Paprika is not the “fake” Chiba, as Osanai thinks, she’s a mask through which Chiba gets to be…
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 2022
Oh god.
What a disaster. To give you an idea, the film’s premise is “we have to stop Grindelwald, but somehow he can see fragments of the future, so we must make a plan to confuse him, which may have some parts that make no sense and might be useless, but are a necessary diversion. Also no one can know the whole plan.”
This makes the film an incoherent slog, in which disastrous writing is excused by this lackluster premise.…
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