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An Elephant Sitting Still 2018
This is a excellent example of how slow cinema makes use of cognitive dissonance to convince people it is great:
"This movie is very boring, but here I am forcing myself to watch it. But surely I must have better things to do with my time than forcing myself to watch a boring movie, so perhaps the movie is actually great and I simply don't understand it, so I continue to watch it. Now, I have just finished 4 hours…
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What Lies Beneath 2000
Although there are many great moments of human psychology translated into cinema (which is why it appears so Hitchcockian), this film works so hard at concealing the plot twists that it completely forgets the pacing. Also, the numerous jump scares, although often cleverly done, not only upset the rhythm of what should have been a slowly intensifying suspense thriller, they seem to suggest that the director had little faith in the audience's involvement in the storyline and characters. Pfeiffer is excellent and Ford is not given enough to do (except, again, to not give too much away).
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Make Way for Tomorrow 1937
I just don't understand how anyone can buy into this premise. After 50 years of marriage, making your parents, who adore one another, live on opposite sides of the country to face their respective ends alone? Is this really the only option?
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Central Station 1998
This movie cannot decide what level of realism it wants to adopt, which creates confused expectations for the audience. It ranges from suggestions of children being harvested for organs and shoplifters being summarily executed on the tracks to the typical Hollywood fairytale tearjerker tropes.
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