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Rapture 1979
Filmmaking attuned to rhythmic, medium-centric overdose, psychological tics evolving from internal dissonance rooted in cinematic obsession. Can't overdo it per healthier standards, however an annihilative internal compass points one/both toward that of the fever dream dead set on a greatness within sight but ultimately out of reach. Bleed into each other via mutual interest in order to breed and harbor mutually assured destruction, titular rapture appearing as and when it does but to replicate such ecstasy becomes an impossibility when you are bloodless but shackled to the business of draining yourself dry for an artform that spells the death of you.
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Southpaw 2015
Gotta hurt before you can heal. Abide by what you've lost to progress in the shadow of it all, punch-drunk or not, unable to free the one person from the system you grew up in because of what afflicts. Give your everything for someone regardless of what this confounded network of life rooted in brutal sport took from you. Work your way from the bottom toward an uncomfortable, uninviting top that involves you and your child because mom/wife isn't around…
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The Devil All the Time 2020
Undeniably messy and misanthropic as it embraces ironically nihilistic throughlines regarding the unsavory nature of humanity in a specific time and place as a fictional pre-Vietnam microcosm of societal dysfunction and depravity. As Campos' first larger-budget ensemble outing, there's indeed the aforementioned messiness but this rests firmly in his wheelhouse as something obviously dour and godless, and to be honest, he kinda knocks it outta the park. If you wanna watch pretty people looking ugly-ish and absolutely not practice what…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
Anguish worsened through a new impossibility of prior permanence. The central conceit here, that a man has essentially fallen out of love with his best friend and remains firm in this disenchantment's maintenance is genuinely upsetting, thanks largely to the isolative milieu that limits these individuals to what they're forced to reckon with over and over and over again until there's nothing left to reckon with on this proper shit non-idyll. Really locks you into a state so telling of precisely why this place and these people could use something this drastic to shake things up despite the sadness coinciding with the death of everything.
