Tom Lawrence

Tom Lawrence

“We’ll always have Paris”

Favorite films

  • Casablanca
  • Blue Velvet
  • Paris, Texas
  • The Snowman

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  • The Substance

    ★★★½

  • Full Metal Jacket

    ★★★★★

  • La Chimera

    ★★★★½

  • Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★½

    Cronenberg body horror on steroids. Thought its message was a little bit on the nose throughout. Thoroughly entertaining however, despite watching through my fingers.

  • Full Metal Jacket

    Full Metal Jacket

    ★★★★★

    The more I think about this film, the better it is. Exploring themes of masculinity, human capacity for evil, and the hypocrisy of war, every line and shot could be dissected and analysed. I’m not sure if that’s Kubrick’s intention, but with a storyline quite linear and simplistic, without much movement, I hung on every word looking for subtext.

    Kubrick’s alignment of war and sex highlights the western-male mindset which strives for domination over other men and women. Kubrick’s musings…

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  • Wicked Little Letters

    Wicked Little Letters

    ★★½

    Fun and fine I guess, but shock value was gone after the first ‘fuck, shit or bollocks’

  • Walkabout

    Walkabout

    ★★★★★

    Five stars. No notes.

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