I tend to rate films within the context of a director’s overall filmography, so as much as I worship the depression/vangeles jazz saturated moments of this film, I don’t think it has the effective story telling of Alien or even Gladiator where every scene feels totally justified and gripping. The tears in rain dialogue doesn’t stand out as particularly earth shattering as it did to me watching this as a 19 year old 14 years ago. I’m honestly sad about that. It doesn’t…
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12.12: The Day 2023
I was completely oblivious to this period of Korean history going into this film. More of an educational experience than anything else watching it, but it felt very dressed up in nationalism to me and not in a good way. Still, I can’t even say “yes” in Korean let alone anything else so being pushed down a Wikipedia rabbit hole discovering how hard the Korean people have fought for their democratic institutions was a good take away from this experience.…
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Threads 1984
Was honored to get to show this to friends who are cinema fans and it definitely stirred up some different thoughts for me on a third viewing. I can’t remember the exact word Bailey used, but it perfectly captured the relentlessly progressive motion of the chain of events. Each typed sentence that emerges across the screen seems to become more and more pointless as misery and annihilation swallows everything. The point becomes clearer and clearer that there is no effective…
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World War III 2022
I am utterly floored. This film is truly unbelievable. Lead actor Mohsen Tanabandeh’s performance takes us on a surreal genre dive covering black comedy, suspense, and ultimately horror. It is a rousing moral tale on the eroding effects of oppression and how injustice manifests at every layer of society from the slum brothel to the high brow world of art and cinema. All of it combines in a way that left me absolutely gutted. This film appears off balance at…
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