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The Thin Red Line 1998
Transcendent filmmaking from America’s closest equivalent to Tarkovsky. Somehow, Malick is even less jaded than Tarkovsky, who infamously held true to Dostoyevsky’s saying that “beauty will save the world” from The Idiot.
The usage of anamorphic lenses is quite interesting. Typically Malick has stuck with spherical, as the distortion of reality is opposite of his intent. The cinematography still is imbued with implacable beauty, and the naturalism is heightened into a euphoric child-like vision of the world rather than minimized into a cinematic, codified language.
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
An astoundingly overrated film without intellectual or visual appeal. Although the story is undoubtedly singular- two ornery friends have a falling out that turns violent - it is difficult to successfully pull off a story with no likable characters, and this movie handles this literary maneuver ungracefully. Since the audience neither cares about nor identifies with any character, emotionally investing into the insidious events taking place on screen becomes impossible. Exacerbating our lack of reason to care is the characters's…
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Triangle of Sadness 2022
Triangle is an on the nose satire, but the joke is on the Oscars for nominating this piece of self-serving pseudo-intellectualism. The cliches stacked upon cliches are extraordinarily anti-cinematic. The filmmakers despise capitalism, but the hate of rich people alone does not justify an audience sitting through over two hours of ugly filmmaking without a single dynamic character.
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