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A Gentle Night 2017
Love the static shots here, the formal restraint mimicking the character's quiet anguish and desperation.
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Adolescence 2025
This is how you elevate a technical feat like one shot filmmaking to art, by focusing on character. Loved how contained and gripping each of the episodes was but it left me wanting more; I guess I was expecting more narrative continuity across episodes, or recurrence of characters in a way that formed a dramatic whole where each episode's events are directly consequential to the next. But the form's limitations got in the way.
Conflicted about how sentimental the ending scene was, but also, if there ever were a show that earns that sentimental a beat, it is this one.
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Mickey 17 2025
Depressingly shallow, muddled and pointless. Makes previous bottom tier Bongs (like Okja and Snowpiercer) look like masterpieces.
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Character motivations made no sense at all:
- Why did Mickey 18 turn out so villainous and cunning when ALL other Mickeys had the same meek personality as 17?
- After getting saved, why didn’t Timo do anything about the fact that Mickey 18 almost killed him? Timo was surely ready to chop him up into pieces a few scenes later…Translated from by -
Where Is the Friend's House? 1987
When I was Ahmad's age, my father used to force me to brush my teeth and go to sleep at ten every night in his room. This one night I told him I'd run out of toothpaste so he let me go and fetch it from the other room real quick. When I couldn't find it there either, I went to look in the bathroom downstairs. There, my mother asked me to brush later after having had kheer that she…
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