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Redline 2009
Funny, absurd, well-animated. Enjoyed the detailed world building that did not matter in the slightest because nothing matters except the Big Race, fast cars and faster cars!
Minor note, it is striking how it displays fascism’s libidinal appeal in the aesthetics of the Roboworld soldiers/weapons—fascism will dissolve your flesh in battery acid but give you such an intense adrenaline rush while it does so that you won’t care. The soldier’s skin appears to have melted away, partially replaced by a helmet,…
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White Noise 2022
This movie managed to make me like one of my favorite novels less. I’m not sure if that makes it a terrible adaption, or a faithful one and I need to reappraise my taste in literature. . .
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Avatar 2009
A cultural genocide of a thriller, Cameron’s 2009 Dances With Wolves in Space tackles outdated, Romanticist stereotypes of indigenous peoples and asks, but what if they were blue? A sci fi epic flung far into the future, it’s quite the accomplishment that Avatar still managed to capture the spirit of its own time, specifically the Recession. Indeed, like the incomprehensible theft in which Wall Street made 2 trillion dollars just go poof, Cameron’s film combines the largest budget of any film…
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The Eyes of My Mother 2016
Shot and performed with hypnotic elegance, this gorgeous, grayscale horror takes place at an isolated family farm, vague in time and place, with a young girl, Francisca, and her parents. Her mother is a surgeon, and teaches her how to remove the eyes of animals, which fascinates her. When tragedy strikes, it’s an open question whether the violence that follows came from without, or was always lying in wait in little Francisca. The film’s perspective is distant, the camera often…
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