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Macross: Do You Remember Love? 1984
On a rewatch, not sure what past me was on about saying this was better than the TV series. The TV series has much more coherent thoughts on cultural imperialism and more nuanced character writing. That makes sense considering the advantage the show has in terms of pure scope, so I think the aesthetic strengths of this film must have been the primary factor in my previous analysis. Which, to be fair, the aesthetics are enough to elevate this very…
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Bones and All 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Weird how I’m able to sit through 95% of the romance cannibal film and be okay/not squimish, but the scene at the beginning where Maren eats the flesh off that girl’s finger makes me want to turn the movie off… Like girl, there are worse scenes than that and we’re only five minutes into this.
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A Tree of Palme 2002
This one is going to take a while to process.
Unbelievably ambitious, to the point where it often stumbles under the weight of its own themes, characters, and scope. A Tree of Palme has a stellar first half, one driven almost entirely by a slow unveiling of its world and characters. The atmosphere from moment one is melancholic--Xian's haunting song carrying the viewer over water and then into a desert like world dotted with occasional knarled trees. The film has…
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The Lobster 2015
Wow, I certainly do love depression.
You know I can't say I loved this movie, but I can definitely see its appeals. It's a pretty sharp examination of the ways society feeds people restrictive ideas about what makes a "good relationship." It's a movie that examines this with a ton of serious slow moving dread but also with an incredibly dark sense of humor. My favorite "joke" was probably the one at the beginning about "the bisexual option" no longer…
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