One of the more grim, soul-twisting movies I’ve seen. But its merits transcend its depressing world, more than five years since I watched it and the memory is as vivid as if I’d been there myself.
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Don't Look Up 2021
[this is a real bashing]
Don’t look up tries so hard to hammer home how everyone one the screen is so much dumber than you, dear viewer.
But instead of going for laughs it goes for likes, smug headnods for couch activists. It all centers around a terrible metaphor, likening climate change in all its complexity to a comet heading straight for earth.
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This Is England 2006
I felt something, throughout the entire film. Hazy nostalgia for a time and place that was never mine, exaggerations of familiar relationships and power dynamics, and through the young lead character, twists and turns, he’s you, but he made all the choices you didn’t.
And through a gripping, moving, utterly convincing progression, you see and feel some of societies darker sides.
And the raw, uncivil, very human mess that transpires reminds me of the 80s I grew up in. Less civility, less self-awareness, an authenticity that couldn’t happen today, an innocence much different to ours.
It was ever-so moving, and worth-while.
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V for Vendetta 2005
This movie reeeaaaallllyyyy hasn’t aged well. Everything that was exciting and cool about it has been chewed to bits. The harsh digital effects were groundbreaking at the time, but a bit of an eyesore now. I must admit I have not made it through the rewatch, a few minutes and I just can’t keep watching.
Wish it wasn’t so.
Its still an artistic achievement, just like that song you couldn’t stop listening to, one summer way back when.Translated from by
