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Apocalypse Now 1979
I don't think I understand this film, not after watching it for the first time. I found it grueling, exhausting and the more I think about it, the more I realise the intentionality behind it.
It's a hauntingly beautiful fever dream, a miserable odyssey beyond the point of no return, through the deepest layers of the hell which the travelers have themselves created and which they inhabit. What a monumental achievement to craft a film like that! To conceive of…
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The Whale 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Heavy is a word that comes to mind.
With such a sensitive topic the writing is unfortunately pretty heavy-handed and desperately lacks nuance, so that I can't really accredit the intense emotional reaction this film got out of me to the screenplay, but rather to the haunting portrayal of self-destructive behaviour and a stellar performance by Brendan Fraser and Hong Chau, who do most of the heavy lifting for this film. Some of it feels too sensationalized and is hard…Translated from by -
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 2020
sir david's step-by-step to getting your shit together already
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