so well done jfc. Just look at the first and the last shot alone. Does so much with just shots, doesn't just rely on the big performance from Rogerio. Also if you view it from Rogerio's POV it's like a sad love story.
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The Brutalist 2024
I was willing to overlook many of this movie’s shortcomings in the first half. I was willing to suspend my disbelief for all of the weird dialogue, the bad accents, even the Ben Gurion speech. It feels like this might be a story unfolding in a new and interesting way.
But then you tell me that for a poor, Jewish, heroin addicted architect, the only safe refuge from violent the American Christian capitalists is Israel? That the moment Erzebet is…
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Fuck Cinema 2004
I would start out by saying that this is an absolutely heroic documentary. The more we think about what we are watching, we realize we have an endless cultural bounty to unpack. There are some real subject/documentarian ethical boundaries being flirted with here. Wang is surviving on one meal a day and sleeping on the roof of the Beijing Film Academy while Wu Wenguang gets to go home every night. There is a key piece of information that seems to…
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