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Ad Astra 2019
I honestly felt this one. It’s a deeply affecting experience. Or maybe it was just me thinking about life.
The obvious comparison I think a lot of audience make is to Interstellar, which came out 5 years prior. Whereas Interstellar is a mind-bending blockbuster, Ad Astra is a slow-burning, meditative odyssey that examines all we have against the infinite void. While the cinematography and effects made it a sci-fi spectacle, the real journey was everything happening within Brad Pitt.
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013
If The Hunger Games was about survival within a broken system, Catching Fire is about the struggle to define yourself while resisting that system. Am I the spark of the revolution? A pawn of the machine? Its martyr? Or only a hollow figurehead?
It expands on the themes of the first film showing how rebellion isn’t just about fighting, it’s about finding out who you will become in the process. Is it truly a victory if you lose yourself in the…
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Clone Cops 2024
Fun and weird. Kinda stopped paying attention after the redhead woman died.
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The Hunger Games 2012
I went into The Hunger Games knowing the cultural footprint without ever having seen it, and I was still genuinely impressed by how well it sells the stakes of the dystopian premise and showcases a great cast.
Similar in vein to the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale (or a blantant western rip-off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) it does more to show than simply tell (although there is some clunky exposition here and there) the human effects of a capitalistic government directly exploiting…
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