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Barbie 2023
I don't think barbie is one of those movies I'll think about for years to come, but it's an undeniably smart movie. How "smart" it is begins in the very first minute, with a reference to Kubrick's Space Odyssey that sets the tone of the movie: Silly, but knows what its talking about. The movie continues this theme of referencing other famous films throughout it's runtime, but in a silly way. However, as the movie approaches its end, you find…
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Shame 2011
Oscar Wilde once stated that “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”, same goes for movies, more-overly in humans. Brandon is ashamed of his own sexual addiction, he fears commitment, need and emotions. In the very start of the movie we find him, a man with no emotions whatsoever, no extravagant facial expressions except while orgasming, which happens a lot. Steve Mcqueen, the director, doesn't care about particulars or backgrounds, he…
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Manchester by the Sea 2016
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Manchester by the Sea is one of those very few successful attempts of showing us, as viewers and humans, the nature of human suffering. It immediately connects us with every painful experience we've ever been through. It starts on the boat, which turns slowly into one of the films main symbols, where we find Casey Affleck playing the uncle of the kid we see at the start. He looks full of joy and life, yet; the environment, carefully chosen by…
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The Edge of Seventeen 2016
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I am seventeen. And as it so happens I was reading Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' the last couple of days. It's about this one person who woke up one morning and found himself transformed into a gigantic insect. Kafka, in this short novella, tries to show us how someone would feel alienation and how hard this may actually be. The feeling of not belonging anywhere, not knowing what to do or say at certain times, because people don't seemingly get you.…
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