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The Crowd 1928
Among other things, a popular exploration of the crowd as an expression of modern urban unification that is the cruellest separation. “To stand out from the crowd”, to "strive to make it", "to pursue the American dream", means here, for one as for all, to have the crowd as an enemy in a war of all against all. The crowd as a conglomeration of faceless high-rise office clerks fighting to outcompete each other and to stick out (here by suggesting…
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2023
I don’t have any good ideas or insights about this (perhaps because the film is just not very intellectually stimulating), but I cannot resist the temptation to make a “hot take”: I didn’t think it was as good as many people are saying, neither on the first unreflected impression, nor later, after some thought. I still can’t see much more than a checklist of social issues here. Film as checklist. Here we have insecure working conditions; here we have the…
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Where Is the Friend's House? 1987
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Among the many aspects of this film that could be talked about, one is the moral subject matter. In this regard, perhaps it could be said to be about two different kinds of duty. On the one hand, there is the duty to obey elders/parents/superiors, so that hierarchy necessary for order would be maintained, a duty articulated by the teacher and the grandpa. On the other hand, there is the need felt by Ahmed to return the notebook in order…
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