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Jennifer's Body 2009
This movie is great. They did the marketing so dirty, the 2000s were horribly sexiest and cruel to Megan Fox, and this movie deserves more credit for being a sapphic horror comedy with themes of toxic teenage friendship, rape culture, and sexism.
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Wolfwalkers 2020
Beautiful and unique animation style, lovely music and storyline, and compelling kids-movie-level handling of the horrors of colonialism and using religion to support it. I found it really interesting how the villain makes one last assertion of his belief in his rightness beneath religion before plunging to his death of his own agency, rather than the usual children’s movie trope of accidental death. Excellent!
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Enemy 2013
A truly unique & gripping movie that spurs great discussion. Love the purposeful ambiguity — so many movies can’t achieve this well and this perfects it. Great repeating image of the woman as spider concept, the webs, the biblical allusions, the schism within Adam and his thinking he escaped it only to find he’s exactly who he’d feared he was, he’s caught in his cycle. I love that the movie begins by so clearly telling us its themes through his lecture, but then it’s still a surprise how it all connects. Great use of color and light.
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The Prestige 2006
Well-done period piece of old school magic. compelling themes of pride/vanity, envy, obsession, and love. The twist at the end felt well-established but not obvious and was a good surprise. Great acting. Loved the foreshadowing and symbolism with the birds in the cage, his wife’s death, discussion of knots, bullet-catching, etc.
Slight issue with Telsa being a red herring at first and sort of being instrumental by coincidence, but everything else worked so well that I accepted it.
The perfect amount of explanation at the end because the emotions were woven throughout.
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