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Perfect Blue 1997
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A pop idol struggles with conflicting expectations when she attempts to discard her clean juvenile image and convert to a lusty movie star. Aspects of her image/identity violently take on a life of her own and Mima tumbles down a schizophrenic spiral, wondering “Am I alive?” A successful celebrity relies on the reification of their image, in Mima’s case this is the “thingification” of the idea of her as a pure and unadulterated pop idol. However, this aspect of her…
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Nosferatu 2024
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Why Ellen is a Hero for Cucking Her Man with a Vampire
Nosferatu continues the trend of modern horrors to break from the tradition of representing the monster in relative terms, (some misunderstood and tragic figure who is only evil through circumstance and would be good from their point of view), and placing the monster within ourselves, as a repressed drive or desire (or shadow) we've tried to hide and disavow.
Ellen is unsuccessful at fully repressing her incongruity with…
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Tampopo 1985
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Ragtag bunch of vagabond wander into a ramen bar. Charmed by a shy hardworking single mother to a kid that looks a lot like my nephew but less annoying they band together and take the newly christened Tampopo ramen joint to ichiban. If the plot wasn't a big enough clue to their inspiration, they put Goro in a cowboy hat and made him a trucker, which I guess makes this a Japanese movie that references a 60s American Western but…
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