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Raise the Red Lantern 1991
The crimson beacon's illuminating shimmer projects but an illusion of power and delight. It's a void promise, a machiavellian tool that incentivises competition among women at the bequest of an oppressive master---the sole beneficiary of this system. As much of a theatre and make-believe as it may be, it's also real in an uncomfortable, uncompromising way: their eagerness for "something more," to please and adhere to strict misogynistic customs is utterly exploited and manipulated. Stripped of nearly all autonomy, the…
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Open Your Eyes 1997
When you open your eyes, you'll go back to your normal life. When you open your eyes, you'll be young and handsome again, you'll get the girl you like. When you open your eyes, the dagger will untwist from your belly and there will be no blood. There will be no smoke, no gun, no secrets lurking in the shadows. When you open your eyes, you'll get it, you'll see it just as I do. Now open your eyes...
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Three Colours: Blue 1993
There is no guidebook on how to live after the loss of those you held dear. The love, care, strength suddenly enraptured, gone without a pause for a last goodbye. Is it possible to move on? How can you? Step by step, moment by moment, one breath after the other, Julie attempts to start anew. It's about the little things as much as it is about the impactful decisions. Rather than "moving on," one more accurately evolves into a different…
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The Inbetweeners Movie 2011
A collective braincell-losing watching experience together with Bruno and Igor, part two the remix
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