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Hard Truths ... 2024
Of course it's also about relating to one's self and the world, but the sister-sister relationship is one that I don't see explored in film that often. Having sisters, feeling alone, feeling terrified and exhausted. And the difference a home (with plants and color) makes.
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The Room Next Door 2024
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I think we walk away from the theater so often (but also after reading some contemporary fiction) asking ourselves if the characters are dead or somehow conjured at the end, and then at the park directly afterward, the season and the lighting made everything look dreamlike. that is to say, unreal.
I'm only sometimes terrified of death, and the other times maybe only because it's possible to arrange more solvable problems in front of this one. There is something about…
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997
A sort of body horror, not quite a nightmare, but a story insisting we look at how lurid being alive and alienated from yourself can be.
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Barbie 2023
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The two stars are for the acting, set design, and makeup/costume design. It's so apparent that the aesthetic vision for this film was stupendously coordinated and an immensely successful love letter to decades of childhood (and parental) nostalgia. A plus one to the nods to musical theater—in fact I'd say the theatricality of it, the times when the movie does not take itself or its _message_ so seriously, are when it shines.
This is not a kids' movie.
This screenplay...…
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