This script sets up a bunch of existential and allegorical bowling pins that it more or less fails to knock down. I say “more or less” because there are hints that the movie doesn’t want to abandon these themes completely in its big-budget-sci-fi-action third act: namely, a killer dream sequence right at the end directs our attention towards the unstoppable reproducibility of these horrors and the people who create them. But… that’s about all it does with these themes. It…
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The Vanishing 1988
we are all kind of just trapped in golden eggs flying through space and when we meet unable to truly touch one another through both our respective shells and inner-layers of golden egg goo, if you really think about it.
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The Age of Innocence 1993
art!!!!!!
almost unbelievable that i’ve never heard of this before. this is one of the best films i’ve ever seen. hopefully i’ll edit this review later to be more eloquent but this thing is bursting with big swings that all majorly hit, and it has an emotional core that is rare among even the best fiction has to offer.Translated from by -
Lonesome Dove 1989
wild west moby dick. an all-timer.
want to share my favorite mcmurtry quote about the novel: "It's hard to go wrong if one writes at length about the Old West, still the phantom leg of the American psyche. I thought I had written about a harsh time and some pretty harsh people, but to the public at large, I had produced something nearer to an idealization; instead of a poor man's Inferno, filled with violence, faithlessness and betrayal, I had actually delivered a kind of Gone With The Wind of the West, a turnabout I'll be mulling over for a long, long time."
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