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Indochine 1992
Interesting movie, beautiful scenes. A couple of contrived plot points, but overall compelling - and nice to see a western-made "Vietnam movie" with some actual interesting Vietnamese characters, as opposed to American movies where the Vietnamese are nothing but background to an exotic odyssey and bodies to be blown into pieces. Basically about how colonialism is poison - even "paternal" colonialism, as represented by Catherine Deneuve's love of her adopted Vietnamese daughter. The colonized people may embrace some of the…
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Synecdoche, New York 2008
A movie about the subjective impressions of a man who is trying to do the impossible - create a movie without anything subjective. This drives Philip Seymour Hoffman to madness, since it is impossible - even entirely representational art is subjective. My understanding of the meaning of the word Synecdoche itself is to use language transform a physical object into a representative part, which is a form of impressionistic art. Or it could just be a misspelling of Schenectady, which is Cotard's hometown.
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The World at War 1973
I obsessively watched "The World At War" when I was a tween and young teenager, in the days of 7 channels. The theme music still haunts me, many decades later. The stories, even more so.
Hundreds of millions of different people, so many different backgrounds, with so little in common, other than that they all played parts in the greatest struggle/horror in history, some as soldiers for freedom, some as soldiers for tyranny, and countless numbers of victims.
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