It's great. So sharp and incisive. Just a short trip from the city lies a pearl of a village; there, the third-floor of a love hotel looks out into a church tower, the restaurants have no waiters, and the museum hosts a circus of never-ending weddings. Certified Copy is hewn from reality. Logic operates as a crutch for the emotionally-starved. Kiarostami teaches us that art is a facade and truth isn't truth until we accept it to be. Everyone is home by 9 PM.
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Linsanity 2013
The documentary isn't great. It doesn't add a new perspective on Lin's journey, it doesn't shed light on anything that hasn't been revealed already for someone who's followed Lin ever since first witnessing him stripping off his warm-up clothes and running onto the hardwood floors of Madison Square Garden. I guess the coverage of his high-school career was somewhat unique. Some shots were nice and the movie was fairly well done as a whole. It's alright. The scenes with Lin…
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Like Nothing Happened 2003
Because (young) people are always ascribing personal meanings, attaching themselves to things that appear to have nothing to do with them. In this way they gain so much surface area, so much vulnerability. By identifying “other” as “self,” they open themselves up to attacks from all fronts.
These characters are young people who try to balance internal strife and external appearance. One the one hand, they understand that much of their emotion can be tempered and regulated. The basis of…
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