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Seven Samurai 1954
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Heavily underrated this movie the first time I watched it. Seeing this in a packed theater was just an entirely different experience. Especially when pretty much all the jokes are landing on the audience. Kurosawa had an absolute mastery at providing the necessary moral and character backgrounds for his action epics. The samurai have such distinct characterization and design, and its incredible how they are both immediately recognizable and fill such separate archetypes. Takashi Shimura also has one of the…
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Forky Asks a Question: What Is Money? 2019
For many reasons this short provides a glimpse into a worldview of an incredibly simplistic description of Kapital. Here we see Hamm describing money as much more of a physical object as a replacement for bartering; This is a myth propagated by Adam Smith. As we can see in a 1985 paper by anthropology professor Caroline Humphrey, “No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money." Of course…
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
I have spent the better part of the last two days thinking about the message conveyed through this movie. I can definitely say that this movie has deeply affected me in a way that almost no other film I have seen has. Following the life of the writer Yukio Mishima, or Kimitake Hiraoka, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters explores the relation of three of Mishima’s stories to his real life. Each story is packed densely with emotional ideas, and…
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