Over and over throughout this movie I kept thinking back to what my mother used to tell me when I was a teenager that "the brain doesn't stop developing until your 25". This movie has a lot going on with power dynamics explored from practically every angle you can imagine, but even more immediately you the viewer are to suffer the prudence free world of young adults. It's exhausting! I felt like the working class goons, particularly Igor, bound via…
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The Night of the Hunter 1955
Southern Gothic banger and when I say gothic I do mean German Expressionism and quite frankly the Brothers Grimm as stretched shadows and uncanny shapes and angles abound in what turns out to be a straight up monster tale, Robert Mitchup going God Mode as the reptilian false prophet, snake in the grass you might say, while our precious children fleeing the relentless monster is reminiscent of Hansel and gretel or little red riding hood.
The expressionist visuals produced so…
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Chinatown 1974
What is LA if anything but a literal hell irrigated with stolen water by pedophile billionaire land developers, pulling profits out of the ground as well the souls of the damned trampled underfoot.
I recommend going back to this multiple times. It's a dense narrative. This and Inherent Vice would be an insane marathon double feature.
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