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Civil War 2024
Saying I like this show… that’s hard. I think the movie is important, but this is a presentation of the world that I think is accurate but uncomfortable.
I’m not going to say much about the movie. Spoilers and all. But I will say that my spouse and teenage daughter drove home largely in silence until suddenly there was a flood of conversation about Ukraine, Trump, Gaza and the other places around the world where, right now, violence is happening…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
Saying I like this movie is complicated. It’s horrifying. Real. Banal. A short time in the life of a family that existed like ghouls on the deaths of tens and then hundreds of thousands of people during the Nazi regime, set at a time when the word Auschwitz didn’t mean what it does now, when it gained the horrifying name that it means now. This is the story of how that name gained its meaning. But all of that, including…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
Studio Ghibli movies rarely miss. This one is a little different because it has a setting in a historical time and place: in Japan during World War II while Allied bombers were striking Japan’s factories. To me, that history added a special poignancy, which made the boy’s trajectory a little more urgent and frightening. This, in a way, was about a real boy after the death of his very real mother. Wonderful images as per usual with this director and studio. Wonderful sound track. Great and weird story. Totally odd translation of the title but whatever. Wonderful movie.
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Platoon 1986
Is Platoon the reason I am the man I am today?
Deep in the 1980s in a now-defunct theater, Platoon answered a profound need for me. You see, I born in the final years of the Vietnam War, and my dad had been in the military. He was a Marine from 1969 to 1976 but didn’t serve in combat.
He was my father in a literal sense, but was he enough? Wasn’t I instead raised by two fathers? Sgt. Elías…
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