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Snowpiercer 2013
Axe gang Axe gang Axe gang! PrAXEis! Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer is a movie about uhh... environmentalism and globalization? Yeah let's go with that. We spend time becoming emotionally invested in the uprising of the destitute back-car revolution, but ultimately there is no "new world order" instituted on the train. The whole rebellion becomes so morally confused that the train just self destructs itself. In turn, there's a commentary about the nature of revolution - you rarely accomplish the goals that…
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Spring Breakers 2012
I think a mixture of early-onset 2010's nostalgia and Korine's impressive technical presentation has made people overrate this one quite a bit. It is shot and edited very well. The marketing strategy, in retrospect, does feel like subterfuge to get the EDM party crowds and former Disney kids of the early 2010's to take a sobering look in the mirror - exposing them to an art film meditation on the emptiness of social media-era hedonism.
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The Seventh Seal 1957
Set in probably one of the most bleak periods of time to ever be a living human being - Bergman's The Seventh Seal has become a seminal piece of cinema. It's what one might call..... "philosophical". The narrative explores the ways that we confront death, and the way death follows us and predicates our lives. Death is personified by Bengt Ekerot, as he trails Antonius (Max von Sydow) throughout his final days in the medieval Swedish countryside after returning from…
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Mulholland Drive 2001
For some reason, on my first watch I really didn't get how much of this movie is set during a dream sequence. The "man behind the diner" is our first real indication that this isn't quite "real life" - as the man in that scene explains the last time he explored the back of the restaurant and saw that disfigured "man behind the diner" was in his dream. It's the closest to an explicit indicator Lynch gives us, but the…
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