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Paris, Texas 1984
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Ecce Homo!
I reckon I’ve been on a Texan neo-Western kick as of late. First Lone Star, then Blood Simple, and now Paris, Texas. I didn’t know it, didn’t realize it until now. The subconscious has a funny way of showing up in the places you’d least expect, like a prairie dog rearing its head in the vast expanse of the Chihuahua Desert. Perhaps these movies are less about Texas the state and more about Texas the symbol. A symbol…
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The Third Man 1949
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Orson Welles’ acting saves this movie from the score being lower. It kind of sucks how Valli’s sole purpose as a character was to present Cotten with a moral dilemma. There was so much potential for her character development, especially with the backdrop of her conundrum. Welles’ shysterism can be cartoonishly evil in a way that reads as incredible— and not in the good way. The moral absolutism of the film makes it pretty one-dimensional. That’s mainstream 40s cinema for you I guess.
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The Menu 2022
It’ll probably take some time for me to fully digest (pun intended) the film's themes. So the score could be marginally higher or lower.
First things first, Ralph Fiennes gave one of the best performances I’ve seen in a long time. I mean really great stuff.
Restaurants originated in the French Revolution, the event that kicked off modernity. With the revolution’s mass expulsion of the French aristocracy from power came many unemployed cooks who had previously worked at the…
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