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We Live in Time 2024
When a stopwatch has become a shackle, we must learn to make the best of our temporal prison. Ghosts are carried in our minds, through nonlinear recollections of all that feels familiar to us. We see We Live in Time, not in the way that it was lived, but in the way it is now: through the foggy window of memory. This is the story that Almut built for herself, and it shows us the innate power we all have…
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The Night Eats the World 2018
This is not a zombie film. La Nuit a dévoré le monde is an utterly realistic, slice-of-life of the despair that arrives even when you have made all the right choices. Sam is beautifully constructed and acted, epitomizing the character that all that zombie fans desire. Yet, he doesn’t succeed. That bleakness— of loneliness, spiritually suicidal survival, and madness— is built through a film of silence.
The stage is set amidst a breakup, and the emotional turmoil of this circumstance…
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The Brutalist 2024
We begin, not in media res with the journey, but with the destination: New York City, or rather, the United States. The disillusionment of the American Dream quickly centralizes itself in a grandiose story of achievement but trauma, and through exceptional acting, an evocative soundtrack, and expert cinematography, The Brutalist manifests the “hard core of beauty” as something palpable that the audience can emotionally touch.
The film grows from a novelistic narrative to an at-times surreal adaptation of the characters’…
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It Comes at Night 2017
The disease, like many elements of the plot of It Comes at Night, is unknown. However, with nightmarish pustules and a suffocating atmosphere of despair, it is quite indicative of the black death. This film, like the bubonic plague, pushes us to face our mortality. We see the monster in its full form from the first scene: disease, death, and most importantly, grief. The latter of these is truly what comes at night for the characters, but as a result,…
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