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Samsara 2023
I related hard to this film.
And yet I find it impossible to rate. Through its ethnographic lens I felt like a slice of my own life had been transposed onto screen - a not especially welcome transposition either - that went beyond monastic life, Laotian Buddhist eschatology and even one of the characters' names.
It's beautifully edited. It's a love letter to life and death. As you're guided into your own death and rebirth, eyes closed, it remolds the…
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Anora 2024
Sean Baker faced an uphill challenge creating a story about a sex worker as a straight man. What he produced was unsurprising - shallow, male gaze laden and ultimately detrimental to the image of an already heavily stigmatized profession.
The story offers no autonomy to its female lead at any point - she's slut shamed constantly and has the least amount of power in every scene she's in. Who was she besides a sex worker being sold a lie?
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