It's a very average blockbuster movie. What I find interesting about it are my thematic obsessions with Star Wars that parallel other works with similar morality premises relating to geniuses: you are not God; you do not have absolute control; you cannot escape your death or prevent the death of others; you have to let go. It's very much the explicit text, which many have pointed out that the movie parallels Tom Cruise's career reaching its sunset, but not just…
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The King's Speech 2010
As someone who has stage fright despite ironically being extroverted and having done plays as a kid, I could feel an absolute sense of anxiety that the main character had while trying to speak, to the degree that The King's Speech, at times, felt like a horror movie. Every moment felt tense, every effort felt difficult, with every progress being overcome but never fully conquered. The final speech, acting as the building climax, is both a simple thing and the…
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Lovely★Complex 2007
This is the worst piece of shit ever made and I will forever hate it to my dying grave. Imagine if someone wanted to make a parody of all the tropes and cliches of romance anime then forgot to actually make it a parody; you're left with intentional tropes that twist the knife to see just how far you can make the audience suffer through bullshit while at the same time making the female lead suffer and cry that she's…
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A Face in the Crowd 1957
There are two ways to see this movie. People see a man who sold his soul for fame and how it corrupted him. In truth, this movie is about a man who knew that he was evil and innately knew how to manipulate the masses but chose not to do so because it is hollow until he embraced it to impress a girl; it's a warning that if you know how to play the game and accept to play it,…
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