Michael Light

Michael Light

Books are Better

Favorite films

  • Silence
  • Cars
  • Hacksaw Ridge
  • God's Not Dead

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  • The Truman Show

    ★★★½

  • District 9

    ★★★★½

  • Silence

    ★★★★★

  • Hacksaw Ridge

    ★★★★★

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  • The Truman Show

    The Truman Show

    ★★★½

    This movie made for a pretty profound picture of reality in some ways. In a way that is too poetic for most to understand, it shows how people are so fine with reality that they won't second-guess the supernatural decrees that guide it. However, the movie is pretty ironic in explicitly stating this itself. Further, the movie propagates post-modernism and some secular gnosticism - For that, it is nothing new.

  • District 9

    District 9

    ★★★★½

    Fantastic movie in it's exploration of the true human condition. From a simple level, it did an excellent job demonstrating how those who take advantage of the lower-status have to re-think everything when they're put in that place. From the beginning of the movie, the aliens seem to be animals that can't help but kill, steal, and destroy based only on their immediate desires and that the humans are helping (no matter the fact that they're doing so in such…

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  • Cars

    Cars

    ★★★★★

    "Cars copied 'Doc Hollywood'" "Cars is the worst Pixar movie" - I DON'T CARE! Cars is my childhood favorite movie no matter what any miserable malicious men may say! This movie has a great story with great characters and real development. Everything is beautiful down to the details. For example, the colors of the cars represent their roles: the green guy (Chic) is the bad guy because he is the opposite of red and blue cars (the King, Doc, Sally)…

  • First Reformed

    First Reformed

    ½

    Crap: not connecting, not at all abstract from the problem that it wants to push as something important and doesn't even touch on the problem in a way that challenges anyone in the movie. Didn't really connect to the characters and the characters didn't seem to be very logical people at all. The main theme seemed super blurry and not concrete enough for it to become a movie. Not only do I think that a more abstract and less direct…

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