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  The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Nov 2024

  Needles to say, few films over the years have reached or will ever reach the grand epic scale of this masterpiece. As a trilogy obviously but specified completely in its most radical form in Part 3, the constant sisyphean nature of existence. The lies, the hate, the ache for meaning being weaponized as extreme ideology and passed as ''ethics'' and ''discipline''. Humans project their own emptiness or rather their own fear and avoidance of recognition of their emptiness onto the…

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2024

  ''Existence precedes essence''
  Freud believed that civilization brings discontent to its inhabitants. The individual who appears to be ''normal'' has to go through several pathological distortions and repressions to fit a symbolic order that relies its gravitas on a purely abstract concept of ''civilized'' society. As a result, this repressed stream of energy now turning against its object takes the form of psychic authority known as Super Ego which binds the individual to ''behave'' into this abstract and symbolic notion…

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  A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2023

  A movie so far ahead of its time it’s crazy. So rich thematically with the clashes of culture of an America long gone to a new opportunistic one. The mental descent of a person filled with the wounds of the past, and the oppression of women in their role in families. Desire being in the center of everything, how people can cling to it and blindly ignore other complications. Vivien Leigh's astounding performance overshadows even the presence of Marlon Brando with all her emotional depth over tenderness, fear, love, delusion and longing. A timeless masterpiece and performance

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