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Adolescence 2025
An absolutely breathtaking meshing of technical finesse and high-tier acting prowess. One shot. One cut. Four episodes. It feels like walking on a tightrope throughout, with the surroundings coming alive with real-world fallacies and anxieties. Adolescence holds up a broken mirror to a broken society, and is relentless in asking uncomfortable questions with no straightforward answers. This show refuses to give you easy monolithic blocks of right and wrong, instead it delves deep into something that is far more sinister…
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2024
A meditative piece on the chilling barbarity of religio-patriarchal authoritarianism. This film is marked by a series of tones, ranging from comfort to distrust, from ambiguity to agitation. It never settles at any one tonal stop point. This paves for a very interesting watching experience that at the same time is staggered but composed. Movies like these are important, they are urgent, they tend to reaffirm people's belief in the living and moving organism of cinema as an art medium. Rasoulof says, Mahsa Amini embodied an entire revolution, however Mahsa Amini was also a person. The conversations should not ever stop.
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What Happened Was... 1994
My mind still hasn't settled on a definite feeling regarding this movie yet it never stops pondering on what it just saw. Noonan's presentation of the stiffling American life with its social, economical and emotional creavses is immaculate. The movie almost plays out like a theatrical production with some interesting use of lighting and blocking. There's a whole lot going on at every given point in this awkward situation of two co-workers gathering for an evening date. Even as we…
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