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  Beau Travail 1999

  ★½ Watched 29 Sep 2024

  I've seen Lav Diaz films more entertaining than this. The story starts 1 hour in. There's an entire hour consisting of anti-narrative exercise and club flashbacks before the plot actually begins. The film is thematically genius but jeez is it a laborious one to consume.

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  The Pianist 2002

  ★★★ Watched 26 Sep 2024

  lifeless—not in a bleak atmospheric sense, it's apathetic. I understand that given the circumstances of the story, being based on a real human's survival, it's difficult to dramatize. But I didn’t expect the film to be entertaining, I did expect it to be profound. The film works well in terms of accessibility, and I applaud the effort, especially Brody’s performance. But no performance can save a film that is inherently apathetic. There’s nothing cinematically astounding or profound, but why bother if depicting historical atrocities suffices to pull the heartstrings of the audience and garner massive accolades.

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  Andrei Rublev 1966

  ½ Watched 15 Jul 2023 4

  I don't look down upon anyone who enjoys this film. Nothing but good if even one person in this world finds something out of it. That being said, fuck this movie. I've seen David Lynch projects with more coherent and easy-to-follow storylines than this. Like.. I'm just.. How should I even begin to break this broken puzzle down. Jesus Christ. Andrei Rublev is a synonym to convolution. This movie was so indescribably boring, monotonous and all the core abysmal that…

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  The Wicker Man 1973

  ½ Watched 06 Feb 2023 1

  The wicker man is like if Midsommar and Shutter Island had a baby but the intercourse happened in chernobyl's power plant

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