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Prisoners 2013
'Effortless' is not a word that describes Prisoners. It can be overzealous in acting and brooding tone, often peaking it's Big Scenes with grace like a brick. Yet, it was a film formative to the development of my tastes as an early teen, and an important gateway film into my wider appreciation of psychological thrillers. It's shortcomings much more apparent in my advanced crone age of 24, but retrospect also illuminates a script, in ways, that is surprisingly ahead of…
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The Northman 2022
Pleasantly unjudgemental in it's depiction of history and entirely sincere in it's very operatic dialogue (befitting an adaptation of Shakespeare's adaptation of the original saga) it's still flustered by plenty of the tedious stylistic choices common in the post modern indie scene that's annoyingly been labeled as the "A24 style." the relentless asymmetrical close ups, the tracking shots (especially where you can notice exactly where they tried to hide the cut,) it feels much more a prioritization of aesthetic than…
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The Lighthouse 2019
The writers rode this really fine line with ambiguity in the story that allows for people to take away different things from the movie but still never felt as if Robert Eggers was waving his fingers at me and saying "ooooooo what does it all meeaaaaaannnn."
I appreciated how the moments of humor were reincorporated into aiding the driving drama between the characters instead of being solely used for breaks in the tension. People have talked about how Eggers' builds…
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High School Musical 2 2007
An insightful and profound meta-textual deconstruction of classism and elitism within the United States. The American epic combines nuance and a kaleidoscopic extravaganza of beautiful choregrapghy, with understated performances from the ensemble cast reflecting the callused souls of the complex characters, for a sobering view of the mundane horrors the middle class battles every day, and the intimate struggle to find existential peace.
Fuck you Danielle and RyGuy for picking this, and fuck Dylan for no reason in particular
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