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The Line 2023
The Line sets out to expose the horrors of hazing culture—but somehow, it forgets to make you feel anything. It’s all there: a logical plot build, a climax that technically works. And yet, it lands with no emotional impact, just some forced tension.
The problem you ask?
1) It never convincingly sells us on why these guys would subject themselves to this in the first place. The allure of KNA is reduced to vague promises of “networking” and a shared…
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American Psycho 2000
This is satire? This is critique?
Patrick Bateman isn’t a character, he has a pulse. Emptiness is not profundity, it's just empty. It doesn’t hold up a mirror to society; it holds up a mirror to itself and winks, then does a line off the reflection.
The dialogue sounds like it was written by a banker who found a thesaurus and thought he was Nietzsche.
The ending? -- "It’s ambiguous!"
No, it’s lazy.You want a real critique of masculinity and capitalism?
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Nickel Boys 2024
The Apollo 8 moon landing clips—like, this pinnacle of human progress, right?—juxtaposed with the raw grit of NYC marathon runners, just sent me. We can send people to the fucking MOON, but these boys? Elwood? Turner? Stuck in this hellscape called "reform." And the runners, god, they’re this relentless force (as we see them move both forward and backwards), like humanity refusing to quit even when it’s bleeding out, then saying lets start over. It’s so metaphorical (too much so?…
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