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  Tales from Earthsea 2006

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  i made the mistake of beginning my recent rejourney into miyazaki films with Nausicaa, and now I can't stop comparing every movie I watch to it, but it will simply always be my favorite. there is a lot that i liked about Earthsea though. a few visually stunning moments, (idk why only a few though, there were opportunities for more!) pretty awesome body horror, which i can tolerate and appreciate in cartoon form. i do love that miyazaki's films are open to redeeming main and secondary characters who have caused a great deal of harm, but turn around for the better when pushed to do so.

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  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999

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  alright, i liked what they were tryna do, all the genre fusions. sometimes it was camp. sometimes it took itself too seriously for a movie that was also camp. too many men (only non-men were a mysterious girl and a mysterious women who were so mysterious and we knew not much about them as humans really) which maybe they would excuse/explain because of the genre/s, but nah. my favorite part is when they looked at the boat.

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  Her 2013

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  The Tree of Life 2011

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  Another sequence I could do is when the boy drowns in the pool, there is a brief, yet deep, montage of mourning, a shot of the brothers playing in the graveyard, and a shot of the mother in a snow white type coffin (??). Then Jack envisions a house burning when he notices burn marks on a friend. There is a strong sense of irony and symbolism in this (Eisenstein), there are elliptical edits and impressionistic editing (Godard) and a…

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