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Sound of Metal 2019
A heartfelt and unrelentingly naturalistic story of a recovering addict going through all seven stages of grief for his own hearing. Points for representation of the deaf community, which you don’t often see in film, but I’m not quite sure what if anything new the film is trying to say about any of the aforementioned themes.
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Rope 1948
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Having just lived, in the last decade, through a trend towards sometimes competitively long takes in film, it felt anachronistic and impressive to see a film made entirely of such stitched-together long takes from the 1940’s! At the same time though, as there is very little violent action throughout the film, it felt very theatre-like.
I had initially thought the premise to be a bit far-fetched - a microcosmic, slippery-slope hypothetical application of Nietzschean philosophy - but was surprised to…
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Heretic 2024
The first half of this film is intriguingly unique, with the horror being dialectical and ontological, but then the second half sort of devolves into predictable slasher tropes. I get the feeling the filmmakers wanted to follow through on the promise of the first half, but then the producers or the studio got involved and went, “but this is supposed to be a horror flick, right? Where’s all the blood and gore?! That’s what audiences want!” And perhaps they’re right.…
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