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★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Aug 2022
Station Eleven recalls the Fredric Jameson quote “it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism". The world does indeed end in Station Eleven but it also offers a glimpse of a new beginning; emancipated from the shackles of capitalism, where mere survival is insufficient and our connection with art and each other is paramount. A new beginning that is still firmly within our grasp.
I was first introduced to Station Eleven in November,…
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★★★★★ Watched 20 Dec 2024
I did not expect the ethereal, deliberately paced Evil Does Not Exist would resonate for me most profoundly as an allegorical parallel to the biggest news headline of the past month: the tale of Luigi Mangioni, a modern day folk hero who murdered the CEO of a parasitic health insurance company.
I've talked before about my frustration with a pervasive cultural obsession and a leering fascination with the evil actions of individual people, while there is comparable little regard for…
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Nothing like a cinematic high initiated by a cat jumping into frame and onto a bed, a synchronous audible gasp from a packed cinema and a grown man loudly squealing “KITTY!”. Hope For Humanity Found in the Strangest of Places.
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I'm not one to point out plot holes and harp on about them but the discovery of a hatch beneath the table is so breathtakingly unbelievable that I had to pause and laugh uncontrollably. These people had been living for months, possibly years, in essentially a bunker with no openable windows, with little to do, and they never aired out a more than likely musty and dusty carpet that has been laid in the centre of the room since they…
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★★★★½ Watched 14 Aug 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
FEMME is a perpetual push and pull. Between masculine and feminine, dom and sub, victim and victimiser, soft and hard, Preston and Jules. But as the film progresses and deepens its two characters, binaries are blurred and burned, breaking the boundary between the two and the absurdity and toxicity of inhabiting just one. Our reaction to the film isn't binary either. We are caught in the fraught feeling of being both repelled and compelled by the actions of Preston, and…
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I demand Paris Geller: A Century in the Life
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