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Satantango 1994
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Irimiás, disguised as a savior, embodies the figure of the devil and, wielding the influence of a fallen angel, coldly destroys the commune and the dreams of its inhabitants. His role as an agent of capitalism is implicit, as the director refrains from enforcing ideologies, leaving them subtly in the background. Irimiás’s violence against the commune leads to the corrosion of utopias and dreams through exploitation and manipulation, revealing the fragility of collective illusions.
Despite the relevance of this theme…
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