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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 2024
A righteously angry and subtle horror film that perfectly captures the torment of living under an oppressive system, our obligations to each other, and what it means to change the world. What happens when a community fails to care for its most vulnerable? What if nobody you are taught to trust can actually be trusted? A story of social collapse and behind it all, often unsaid, the hope of something new being born.
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What Happened Was... 1994
Perfectly familiar and alien. Funny and frightening and unpredictable like watching two changelings inhabit the bodies of human beings who both love each other and don't understand what love is.
The lighting seems to reinvent each character in every scene. It feels Jackie or Michael could at any time tear apart the structure of reality due to the force of their desire to be desired. Did that shadow in the dollhouse just move?
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The Brutalist 2024
I had fun watching this, but I'm split on whether or not I liked what it was saying. There's a Statue of Liberty reveal early on that I think says a lot about what the movie and what America is about. I saw it and felt a kind of dread realization—like watching a video of the moon landing but Neil Armstrong is standing in front of a swastika—but with how the movie ends I wonder if it wasn't meant to…
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Wicked 2024
The Wizard of Oz is one of the best movies ever made. Wicked is just fine. Why did something feel slightly off about the whole production after I left the theater? Why does Fleming's Oz with its matte paintings and dream-like conceit feel more real than in it does in this movie? Why can't more directors get actors to play things up for the camera in a way that seems authentic instead of choreographed and focus grouped? Wicked probably works…
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