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Paris, Texas 1984
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I still can't grasp what I felt walking away from this movie, but it absolutely floored me. Regardless, Wim Wenders is too German to be bumping blues and country this hard—the Ry Cooder ball knowledge alone is deserving of honorary citizenship.
In an old promotional interview, Wenders revealed that the title was supposed to juxtapose men and women—Paris, with its delicate, elegant, and distinctly feminine connotations, against Texas, defined by its traditional ruggedness, and the idealized violence of the Western…
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Inside Llewyn Davis 2013
"Folk singer with a cat. You queer?"
The Coen brothers constructed this movie so beautifully. The network of references, events, and characters in this film are all seamlessly interwoven and connected—the nautical innuendos, the cat's name (Ulysses), the circular plot structure. The sea embodies the surrender to life's current, passively allowing the riptide to carry one through their journey. Ulysses, the cat, could very well be Llewyn Davis. A nod to the iconic novel, the cat (much like the real…
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The Seventh Seal 1957
"Jöns: Love is perfect in its imperfection.
Plog: You're happy, you with your oily words. You believe your twaddle.
Jöns: Believe it? Who said? But I love to give pieces of advice."Queen A4 was a rookie blunder. Should've rocked the Swedish opening.
This movie covered it all—death, love, God. It was a movie—in the same way 2001 is—that attempts to capture what it is to be alive. Why are we here? Is God real? Can I escape death? Even…
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Blue Velvet 1986
What did he wear again?
This movie was terrifying. I read an article that proposed a really interesting idea. Supposedly, the beers mentioned in (the goat) David Lynch’s Blue Velvet each correspond with a different character, and each character corresponds to one of Freud’s subconscious categories. For example, Sandy’s father, the detective, prefers “bud,” a beer emblematic of the honorable self-made hard-working blue collar man, which fits his persona within the film. Detective John Williams represents Freud’s superego, the personalities…
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