It’s asinine to point out that its’s impossible to convey everything that’s interesting about Dune the novel in a film adaptation (ignore the obvious notion that there’s just not enough time, there are plenty of formal and structural elements of the text that cannot be directly expressed in visual terms). That being said I don’t think this film manages to convey anything that’s interesting about the novel. There’s also Villeneuve‘s complete disregard for color, which has become a problem. It seems…
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To Live 1994
One day I hope to tackle Zhang in a more comprehensive manner, but for now I'll just say that I've been lead to believe he started as a dissenter and was eventually turned into an instrument of the state. However, the anti-PRC content in TO LIVE is barely enough to qualify as criticism, let alone anti-establishment rhetoric. Wealthy Chinese living frivolous lives find contentment and purpose under the glorious people's revolution is hardly dissent. Any time the family feels apprehension…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Hmm, hmm. . .Tepid, a response far more muted than I would've expected to leave the theater with, but it nonetheless sums up my feelings. Everything is still sinking in, still processing. It's hard to judge film #7 after a single viewing when I've spent 20+ years living in the other six, but I can say that I was ill at-ease during the entire film, like watching a worn memory from an unfamiliar perspective. Perhaps my ties to the series…
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