The fractured vocals are almost redundant here - the silhouetted figures, out of focus and bathed in light, the musical loop and the dripping, everpresent water, all make this a really big mood, as the kids say.
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Madonna: Truth or Dare 1991
Is it possible for a movie to feel significantly compelling and bloated at the same time? I'm not sure, but this documentary, a major financial success for Madonna at the time despite (because of?) the uncertainties the project went through in the development faze captures both states during its run-time. At almost two hours, with musical numbers from the Blonde Ambition tour interspersed between black and white 'backstage' tour footage of Madonna dealing with what life means when you're Madonna…
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There's a scene about the midway of the film, where Sakura Ando is casually wearing a shirt with the quote 'Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed' while she talks to her sister in the kitchen-the camera doesn't particularly linger on the shirt or its caption, although the scene lasts long enough to give the viewer a chance to read it, but the more I think about it, the more central it…
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