I have trouble thinking about this film because I'm unsure what it was trying to be. Was the American setting purely for marketing or was it meant to say something about the American tendency to turn the horror and suffering of other nations into entertainment for ourselves? Was the characters staying clean and well-groomed without showering for days an oversight, or was it an aesthetic choice to show their distance from the violence? Alex Garland said he wanted to cast…
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The Seven Year Itch 1955
At some point, I realized I didn’t know the girl's name and just assumed I missed it, turns out it was never mentioned. A bit surreal watching the dumb blond trope with zero irony
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Cléo from 5 to 7 1962
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I've always been a sucker for tragedies, stories where the character's fate is sealed but only the audience knows. This movie begins as the opposite, with Cleo convinced she's doomed and the audience convinced she's being obsessive in the same way she obsesses over her beauty and the way the people of Paris perceive her.
Despite her namesake season, spring, officially ending the previous day it still surprised me when the diagnosis came in. In hindsight, I should have known…
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