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An Irish Goodbye 2022
A little mawkish and twee.
Everything about it seemed forced, the characters, their motivations, the things that were said. Nothing flowed naturally or seemed real. It was exasperatingly saccharine and cringe. All the schmaltziness was not rocked by the effort to insert raw Irish dark humor into the picture. In fact it just made the film look like an attempt to copy the wittiness and atmosphere of the Banshees of Inisherin.
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The House That Jack Built 2018
It's incredibly well made. It's super entertaining. It's fun. It's sick. It's thrilling.
And that's exactly the problem.As Von Trier's self-portrait, it carries a self-critical message that compares artistic pursuit and murder. Regardless of its intended criticism, its being what it is, namely *incredibly effective and gripping entertainment*, it can't help falling into the very trap it's drawing our attention to. Being gripped and amused by 2.5 hours of twisted misanthropy really made me ask (again) how I should…
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The Invisible Man 2020
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This film works as a visual metaphor for abuse: the violence is invisible to everyone but the victim, the damage is real. Framing somebody and gaslighting them get tossed in the air side by side, compared, they intertwine - the circumstances are made to look like the victim is the perpetrator, like she is insane, and there's no realistic, believable way for her to explain her way out of the situation; however, the heroine of "The Invisible Man" knows that she's not the perpetrator, nor is she insane. The film took all its threads into a conclusion, which makes it a great thriller.
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