Thank you Friedkin and Clouzot, pure adrenaline cinema that highlights the evils of American Imperialism. Roy Scheider’s eyes wandering from a drawn image of a female bottom to a bottle of Coca Cola, and then jumping to the end where he is desperately carrying the box of highly explosive dynamite pissing with Nitroglycerin towards the eternal burning fire caused by America’s desire to drill Mother Earth’s natural resources for pure profit. I will never stop banging on about 70’s cinema.
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Harakiri 1962
Questions tradition and national values like no film I’ve ever seen. There is no honour in being poor and Hanshirō’s verbal takedown of the institutions that uphold the outdated values and ethics is both devastating and truly satisfying. Every now and then I would let out a satisfactory groan, close to orgasm in sound, at how fucking beautiful this film looks. Future rewatches of this film will almost certainly reveal even more, but for now I can totally see why this is the highest rated film on this app.
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