Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Is a fraudulent peace really that different from a truthful war?
One of my fav Anime ever, and probably my favorite Mamoru Oshii film<3
Funny as a black comedy with colin pharrel and the absurdism was absurd but felt like something was missing.
In any other setting i think i would’ve liked this movie.
Athena pulls you in to a suspenceful trance and rarely lets you pull the breaks.
The drama, the cinematography, the pacing all of it is beautiful and captivating. And i appreciate that.
However the film seems very uncomfortable with siding with the marginalized people it centers on. There is a noticeable centrist attitude from the filmography about the real politics at play.
A year after this movie a similar…
“Not having been to war.. is something to be proud of”
In a culture reeling from the machine of their empire shooting out and grinding up its own people to desperately (and despicably) protect its conquests, a faith in humanity and the the value of human life is powerful.
Beautiful movie, with i think, some interesting perspective on the post war Japanese mentality. Will have to learn more about the allegories it presents.
Still in all this allegory, it doesn’t…