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Godzilla Minus One 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
For all the destruction wrought by Godzilla in this film, it is impossible for me not to feel sympathy for the creature. This animal so fierce and territorial, confused and wanting and wandering; rendered something else, something worse, by forces beyond its control. It becomes a thing to detest, a hurdle to overcome. It is made into a soldier. In very many ways, Godzilla has continued to remain a microcosm for humanity itself - the things we’re capable of, for…
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The Matrix 1999
The coolest movie ever made.
Informed by the culture that preceded it and endlessly influential upon the culture that followed. The nature of cyberpunk media is that it is as much a balm and an awe-inspiring motivator as it is a warning and a thing to examine. Throughout everything, including that which we permit unto ourselves, we persist. And there are continuous shifts in the paradigm of this media, large and small, that each matter — BLADE RUNNER, AKIRA, the…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
The scourge of prophecy is not that it is and always has been a human construct engineered to help inform authoritative longevity and personal certainty, it’s that prophecy works. It is, ultimately, self-fulfilling. Prophetic power and religious doctrine are emotionally resonant and spiritually uplifting for those desperate and willing enough to submit - it is moving and understandable, and for some, even necessary. And it remains politically, monetarily and militarily advantageous for those willing enough to manipulate it for their…
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