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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Something clicked last night for me when thinking about the ending. I've seen so many people say similar things regarding the film.
"It's Scorsese's coldest film."
"Almost all entertainment value has been stripped away."
"Why did Scorsese choose to frame the film in a way that seems to go against dramatic tension?"At first, I thought it probably had a lot to do with the seriousness and horror of the subject matter, and Scorsese being an outsider to this culture…
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Top Gun 1986
The ending of this is like the perfect inversion of the ending of Metal Gear Solid 2. Interesting coincidence if Kojima wasn't subverting it on purpose. Throwing away dog tags as your defining character moment at the climax, but for completely opposite reasons. Maverick throws away Goose's tags as a sign that he's put the trauma of his death behind him and is now focused on being the greatest tool of war he can be, right after he proves as…
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Miami Vice 2006
I think one of Mann's thematic concerns in much of his Heat and beyond career is the battle between modernism and postmodernism. I've seen him describe Val Kilmer's character in Heat many times in interviews as a postmodernist, contrasting with the modernist Neil McCauley. Neil has the organized and structured ideals of a modernist. He has strict codes that he lives by and demands perfection; in timing, planning, precision, in execution. He believes in strict rules and order. This is…
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