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The Zone of Interest 2023
The Jewish people have been the subject of two profound cinematic portrayals depicting the zenith of their suffering at the hands of blind hatred: "Shoah," an unflinchingly potent exploration of the manifold intricacies of the Holocaust, and "Schindler's List," which masterfully intertwines this suffering with glimpses of hope—a future where the Jewish populace might reclaim their rightful place. The concept of Jewish liberation has transcended mere communal boundaries, embodying the aspiration for emancipation shared by all oppressed peoples, thereby preventing…
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TÁR 2022
Lydia Tár is the most heroic character we've seen in a movie for a decade or two. She is the last stalwart of true culture, willing to defend it to the point of naivety in a world of ever-growing philistinism. She believes in art at a time when it's impolite. For others, music is valuable for the million of things associated with it: politics, class, elitism, the chance for a career,... For Lydia, it is feeling, pure feeling refined and…
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Starship Troopers 1997
I rewatched it after the Twitter one-week embarrassing display about this movie. We've seen it all. Starship Troopers is a satire, and also it failed as a satire. This movie is supposedly "coded" as a propaganda film - therefore, everything portrayed in it is bad - but, also, it could be this movie was, completely by accident, a propaganda film, unaware that everything it portrays is good. It was like a massive crowd of people stepping into one another in…
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Satantango 1994
"A cross between primitive insensitivity and chillingly inane emptiness in a bottomless pit of unbridled dark"
Despite the movie lasting for longer than seven hours, leaving ample time to absorbe it, sadly a great part of the audience for it are incapable, or unwilling, to abandon their preconceived idea of the film prior to watching it - and which stems from the challenge simply watching this film poses. The film is touted as a "religious experience" - but why? It's…
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