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  Punishment Park 1971

  Watched 05 Mar 2025

  More interesting if read as a mock-performance art piece with Watkins himself as the main character, whose media-sensitive delusion (the only actual prescient feature of this film) is transfigured into an allegory where the people from his tribe are fighting a literal war for their right to exist, where the odds are stacked against them, where other people have all the weapons and they have nothing, where the truth is deliberately hidden and obscured, and where the system is set up so they will lose. Then suddenly what seemed to be naïf political commentary turns into a fascinating psychodrama within a paranoid mind

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  Right Now, Wrong Then 2015

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  Someone should explain the concept of a dating sim to Hong Sang-Soo, his mind would be blown

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  Sans Soleil 1983

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  Your very smart friend invites you to come check out the camera rolls he took of his recent travels. You haven't seen him in while so you figure why not.
  After a dazzling two hour presentation, you head home and realize he didn't ask a single question about you.

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  Persona 1966

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  Small checklist from the Good Modernist Handbook:

  Reality / fiction ✓
  Incommunicability ✓
  Madness ✓
  Mother figure ✓
  THE BODY:
  Penis ✓
  Vagina ✘
  Implausible eroticism ✓
  Double identity with mythic-symbolic subtext ✓
  The fourth wall ✓
  Dream ✘
  Holocaust ✓
  "The artist" ✓

  Almost a complete film. A depth of field shot of Bibi lifting up her skirt followed by her waking up all sweaty would have done it, but alas.

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