Things I loved: Pattinson's perfect casting, the fact that the film never tries to be a dudebro high concept sci-fi, and is almost a throwback to the more campy sci-fi fare of the 70s and 80s.
Things I didn't: too exposition heavy, wish the director played around with the concept of the doubles more.
I don't know how to feel about the ending. It's clear settler colonialism and possibly Palestine is weighing heavily on Bong Joon Ho's mind as he…
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The Dupes 1972
A searing adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun. It's incredibly faithful to the novel, an almost too faithful translation of word to image, particularly the moments in which the past and present overlap. Still, there are things that film does which are not possible in the novel. Like the interjection of the real within the realism, in the form of real life images of meetings between world leaders, summits and conferences, which cynically do nothing for the Palestinian…
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All We Imagine as Light 2024
The kind of film that has film critics sharpening their "The city is also a character" lines.
Combines the tenderness of Malayalam new wave with Apichatphong-esque uncanny. Love how it's depictions of intimacies never becomes bogged down by the ever encroaching alienation of the city. But rather it's steady hum becomes the music of companionship. This is the kind of film you want to wrap around yourself like a quilt at night.Translated from by
