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Contact 1997
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A film about faith, dogged determination (or should I say determinism?- a joke to come back to after watching) and wonder.
The plot forges onward at pace, mounting to a totally riveting crescendo at its finale, a finale of the likes of The Abyss or Le Grande Bleu. The film manages to combine the pacy plot with two other of the three most valuable ingredients in movies: excellent cinematography and the discussion of Proper Ideas (without shoving them in your…
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Embrace of the Serpent 2015
This film is truly transporting. I felt the physicality of the jungle and the people, my mind slowed to the pace of life in the forest. It left me with a sense of calm, wonder and thoughtful confusion.
Aside from the cinematography, the film educates about indigenous Colombian culture and exhibits the horrors of capitalist endeavour on the jungle and the horrors of early Christian proselytism on the native people.
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