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Rabid Dogs 1974
a very apt title - visceral, claustrophobic, and with a cynical final twist of the knife
you can almost taste the air in that car
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The Cameraman 1928
a pretty girl, a monkey sidekick, buster keaton, the moving image, a sweet ending... what's not to like?
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The Passenger 1975
“people disappear every day.”
“every time they leave the room.”forever alive, forever forward
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Megalopolis 2024
"the end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization"
all the archetypes of hubris, ambition, and megalomania - arising at and bringing about the dawn of empires, time and time again
perhaps an inevitable, almost autoimmune response from the organism of society to the degenerative disease of dwindling belief in longstanding structures and institutions...
the few at the top as a vessel for the wider society, a mechanism to end its life cycle by,…
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