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TÁR 2022
Concerned with legacy, and focused on the all-too-common issues with asymmetries of power; even the world of classical music comes with its own hierarchy. Devotion to the score, the notes and form, would be the ultimate way to be remembered.
Aesthetically beautiful, audibly grand, and theatrically fierce. If there was any doubt that Cate Blanchett belonged to the special class of “timeless” actress, this performance dismisses the thought completely. Blanchett as Lydia Tár is a character/performance that will be…
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House of Hummingbird 2018
People get older, and maybe it’s a generational thing, but as the age piles on so many people forget how much of a burden it can be to be young. Just because life is still relatively new, doesn’t mean that it’s easy. I remember so much of my adolescence, despite hard failed attempts to ignore anything besides “adult” life.
My heart breaks for Eun-hee, and many of the young people in this movie. The adults are an image of what…
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First Reformed 2017
My life has revolved around three topics really: devotion, sacrifice, and salvation. All through the vehicle of guilt. Have I given enough? Have I given up enough of myself even? What price was I trying to pay?
Paul Schrader asks, and you can determine his answer for yourself, an ancient question. A 1st century thought about hope in the face of despair. How do we find the strength, or even the faith, to continue on?
Me personally? I’ve been rejected from standing on holy ground.
“You’re not made for love?”
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La Haine 1995
My main lens of analysis is via the material condition. The barriers that get in the way of basic needs.
When you don’t have access to economic opportunity for employment. Or an educational system to platform your young people- how do you even get into talking about the affective domain when you don’t even have the kopeck to buy groceries?
It leaves you only space for violence if that’s the language of the state.
“Tom fucks Jerry's shit up.”
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Pretty in Pink 1986
I’ve worked with someone that has the same personality as Ducky, and they ruined every shift I had when we worked together.
“I loved The Big Chill.”
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Suspiria 1977
Is this movie so beautiful to look at or what? The colors, the lighting, the design of Tanz Dance Academy, like are you kidding me? I really can’t get over what the interior of the school looked like! Would I want to stay there though? Absolutely. This was an experience, a technicolor piece of magic.
The audio compliments are far from subtle, the music and noise hammer on your eardrums. It plays to overwhelm and disorient; I found myself feeling…
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