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Recent reviews

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  THX 1138 1971

  Watched 04 Jan 2025

  Like 1984, A Brave New World and Blade Runner had a baby. As the totalitarian ideology of labor grounded in the panoptic gaze faces challenges, and ultimately crumbles, the notion of love appears incapable of addressing the fundamental conflict at the heart of the narrative. Instead, they find themselves in a state of conflict. Sexuality and (individual) freedom emerge as commodities that happen to hold as little value as labor and imprisonment. The visual aesthetics are truly remarkable for its time and it looks really unsettling. A bleak and dystopian outlook of a future. “By the masses, for the masses.”

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  Challengers 2024

  Watched 03 May 2024

  “Any special attention for the pet?”

Popular reviews

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  All Light, Everywhere 2021

  Watched 29 Aug 2022

  "Imagine what would have happened if Adam and Eve had not lived in a garden but in a smart building. The divine designer would probably have arranged it so that they never saw apples." 
  – Ursula Franklin

  One thing is clear in Theo Anthony's thought-provoking filmic essay: much goes unseen on camera when you film something. All Light, Everywhere observes and analyzes this premise from different perspectives in this somewhat too ambitious documentary. As a result, some of the socio-political…

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  Rewatched 10 Mar 2024

  Where to begin with this… I thought beginning with the remarkable cinematography, or maybe the craftsmanship in creating new languages for this piece? But the list of admirable elements is endless to me. So, no necessity to dwell on that. But, even if this movie is special for me (reading all the books, bugging my friends with Dune lore and memes on a structural basis etc.), it provoked me to contemplate on some unsettling aspects that I tried to pinpoint.…