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The Thin Red Line 1998
Humans are an aberration of creation. Animals killing other animals (predators vs. prey) is nothing like humans killing other humans. Anybody who makes that equivalence is diabolically simple, and I fear for their capability to embrace life.
In a world full of great beauty and harmony, here are humans predisposed toward destruction and enmity. All around them flows, waves, soars, cycles. Nature (its animals…its landforms…etc) in rhythm with each other and here are humans banging discordant melodies on out of…
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 2016
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Usher’s doing the donkey roll should not have been that gratifying!
The TMZ scenes had me hollering, and the Osama Bin Laden song was a highlight. The music was fun and Lonely Island feels like such a relic of the Bush/Obama years that I felt oddly nostalgic. Laughing at astute ribald wordplay layered with cultural commentary feels soooo 2010. Feels like when YouTube was that girl.
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Triangle of Sadness 2022
The captain’s dinner sequence was immaculate. The most decent thing rich people can do is give away what excess they have. Anything else is a burden.
I don’t want to eat the rich. It’s more that I won’t the rich to leave me alone and stop forcing me into abject state of being through boot-strap policies and condescension.
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The Brutalist 2024
Idk if I liked it or not but the first part was immaculate! The pacing, the cinematography, the themes (how American immigration encourages (financially rewards!) asssimilation/lying over the truth. How truth in America is always determined by who owns the money. Immigrants become American by living in its paradoxes…there was so much in the first part! It was so deliciously rich. Then…Part 2…
My favorite performance was Felicity Jones’ but good golly, I was surprised by how horny of a…Translated from by
