Lacerating self-critiques aren't rare in film, but I can't think of many that are also paired with this kind of radical self-acceptance. Fosse here isn't soft-pedaling any of his faults as a husband, father, or a filmmaker (the review that sends him back into the hospital stings so bad because it's on point - for all the joy to be found in the overheated sweaty straining of this film, it's no wonder why he might be sensitive about a "characteristic…
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Underground 1995
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The war profiteering louts of one era (who can't get off unless the bombs are falling!) are the elder statesmen of the next, at least if they grab the film cameras first. The third act goes through some strained plot contortions to explicitly include the Bosnian War but the film would be just as effective without it - Blacky's assault on the propaganda film set itself seems pretty direct as an analog for the fall of Communism, and it's not to hard to draw a line between his son's death in the shuffle and the ensuing post-USSR Yugoslavia fallout.
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Roma 2018
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The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
- The decoder ring scene (maybe too obviously) is the McConaughey initiation lunch. What the clients of these brokers would like more than anything else is to make their gains in the stock market become real (by cashing out), but it's the broker's job to ensure that they do not become real, i.e. that those clients keep buying into the fiction, sustained by the broker's acting and charisma (and, indirectly, chest-beating tribal chants). Theatrical performance is everything in this movie…
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