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  Mandabi 1968

  ★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  2.8/5.0

  Despite there has casual diagrams that serve as aphorisms along the narrative, I am yet unable to connect such wisdom with what actually happened within the film. Sembène seems conscious to settle his subject in the middle of which the centered situation becomes self-polarized, one that for all time remains harsh whereas the other ironically of anecdote. The split has been somewhat sewed through the reading of Sarah L. Lincoln, who eases the distance by referring the given town-net’s…

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  The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  3.6/5,0

  My first piece of Fassbinder, the image is indeed not very easy to watch. Such uneasiness dues in part to the author’s reconstruction of the spectatorship that, as Pilcher senses out in his article, a new dynamic of look has denaturalized the conventional waking for visual pleasure as sexual difference. And in addition to this dissociation with patriarchal course, the established more importantly conveys me a relation in which the present subjectivity seems always being embodied of discarnation, yet…

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  Sherlock Jr. 1924

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2024

  3.7/5.0

  May considered as a case in exploring the limited proportion of  physical movement on image mobility. Besides, it as well shares a formation about the “musician” who plays in  the front of the screen for early silent film.

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  Distance 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 15 May 2020

  4.0/5.0

  It to some degree vulgarizes the distanced yet uncoordinated “sermon” in Illusion, we are shared with the survival’s view by chance. The “fifth member”, who had done his return as if consanguineous reincarnation, wandering in the middle of living and the dead, had put himself in a certain measure towards the “suspended situation” like that in Mekong Hotel. Accordingly, in my suggestion, the better structure would take this very figure as protagonist binary, and the memorial place carrier spatial,…

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