Science is the new religion and astronauts are its priests. We look to the stars for a new planet to devour, we pray that this time it’ll be different, we scour space in search of a god to save us, but our appetite is endless, our prayers fall on deaf ears and space does not stir; we’re all we’ve got.
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History Lessons 1972
"He was much loved?"
"He passed as smart."
"But the simple soldier had confidence in him?"
"The food was not bad. He saw to that, so they said."The film, ostensibly about Ceasar, quickly rejects the great man theory in favour of a more materialist understanding of history. It shows how the driving force of history are the people (in this case the people of Rome, whose everyday lives literally take up about a third of the film) and the…
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Road 1987
This film feels like you're in a play, on the stage with the actors - thanks to the permanently personal camera and fluid tracking shots.
Some of the thespians talk to you, some don't, some scream at you, and still others hold affecting soliloquies to an audience of deserted streets and dilapidated houses.I'd cry, but I don't think tears would come. And there's nothing worse than than an empty cry, it's like choking.
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Werckmeister Harmonies 2000
The prologue and the "Prince" scenes are easily two of the best I have ever seen, the score is absolutely sublime and the cinematography stunning. I could go on, but it would just be superlatives upon superlatives, so I won't bother.
I don't often rate films with five stars, that way it gives more meaning to the films that I do, and Werckmeister Harmonies definitely deserves all five.And now, we'll have an explanation that simple folks like us can also understand, about immortality. All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign.
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