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  The Act of Killing 2012

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  In a documentary with so many powerful and haunting scenes, one of the stand outs is when Adi Zulkadry and his family are walking around window shopping in a dull and sterile shopping mall as Adi describes and attempts to justify his crimes. The torture and killing, the stain on the national soul - It was all for this

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  How Green Was My Valley 1941

  ★★ Watched 17 Aug 2024

  This would have worked far better if directed by someone like Terence Davies.

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  L.A. Takedown 1989

  ★★½ Watched 26 Jul 2024

  This is Heat with half the juice

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  Kinds of Kindness 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Jul 2024

  Yorgos once again proves he is humanities biggest hater

  All the shorts have a pervasive disgust and criticism of us and our social relations ranging from amusingly absurd to transgressive and gory, and
  The final and best of the three shorts is one of the most bleak and misanthropic outlooks on humanity that I've seen.

  The sheer contempt for the species
  overwhelms any attempt at levity or dark humour for which Lanthimos is previously known and its clear he intends…

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