a case study in how to present a balanced view WITHOUT “both sides”-ing a war that didn’t have two sides. The police, the paratroopers, and the pieds-noirs are presented as human, with individual motive as well as a sense of duty and honour; however, this only makes their actions and viewpoints more inhumane, more repulsive. The contrasting of the Colonel’s invoking of the French Resistance and the Holocaust and the violence that he perpetrates upon the Algerians is shocking, and…
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The Parallax View 1974
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Mark Fisher drew a parallel between the open door in this film and in the Truman Show: the latter frees Truman from an organised, controlled, conspiracy-driven world, the former the exact opposite. Frady dies reaching for a false freedom, and then all the people stand up and begin to crawl like ants across the giant American flag. How can you convince a man to kill for his country?
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Midsommar 2019
I’m not even sure I can give this a rating. I don’t know what it was, but the whole film seemed so unendingly horrifiying and traumatic that I can’t even really say I enjoyed watching it. Some parts looked beautiful, some sequences were compelling, maybe it would make more sense on a rewatch, but I don’t think I could sit through it again and that’s the problem. It’s definitely possible that I’ve just come to expect an undue measure of…
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