Vassal14

Vassal14

Favorite films

  • Spirited Away
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • The Battle of Algiers

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  • A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution

    ★★★★½

  • The Lobster

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★½

  • Parasite

    ★★★★★

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  • The Lobster

    The Lobster

    ★★★½

    Believe it or not, this is actually how Catholic dating used to work prior to Vatican II

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★½

    Genuinely pathetic political commentary from the mind who made Memories of Murder, it’s sad to see. The consistent treatment of fascists as stupid immediately begs the question “then how dumb are we for losing to them?”. Tired, SNL tier poking fun at the same old shit instead of actually treating them as a serious threat is actively harmful to the development of genuine anti-fascist political consciousness. Plus it’s DEEPLY UNFUNNY. 

    All this is draped in poor humour, shocking acting performances,…

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  • Borderlands

    Borderlands

    ½

    Ordinarily I save this low a rating for films I feel are actively harmful or bigoted. But perhaps I’m wrong in hesitating to say this qualifies. An hour and 40 of assault on the concept of art itself. In producing a script written by an AI language model trained exclusively off quips, it damages the medium itself by claiming that it belongs.

    You know when you’re watching a middling to poor film, and the “trailer moment” comes on. A scene…

  • Eraserhead

    Eraserhead

    ★★★★

    Still tryna work out why David Lynch subtitled the whole movie in Portuguese

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