and who would choose these passions?
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Anguish 1987
What drugs did I take when I gave this a 4.5? The meta aspect of the film is intriguing but that doesn’t make up for the lack of narrative cohesion and representation of theme. I can think of plenty of media that portrays the Freudian power structure of the mother figure in better ways without being ooOoO so weirdd so artsy oooo.
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To Live and Die in L.A. 1985
Friedkin decides to go full cheese but has no idea how to do it.
Oh, but what a twist! Bet you didn't see that scene coming? Fuck off.
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The Man Who Sleeps 1974
A french woman with a fetish for metaphors rattles on incessantly about disconnection and alienation in 1000 different flowery ways while images of a man walking, staring at things, and sometimes doing daily activities flash in the background to the sound of angry xerox machines. The only visual representation of thematic was empty scenery, low contrast bleak grey, and the main character being the focus of the shot due to lighting choice and blur. This seems awfully elementary even though…
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Sans Soleil 1983
I think every French person is born with the extraordinary gift of being capable of and keen on saying very obvious things that mean very little but using the most wordy and flowery diction possible. Let me yarn on about my dog’s bowel movement this morning as I illustrate a tenderly breaking dawn in the summer heat and relate this back to some contemporary art bullshit I’ve viewed. Don’t you ever just see a dog shitting and think about the…
