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Three Bewildered People in the Night 1987
Don't be fooled, as many have, by the lofi production and inelegant acting: Gregg Araki's first film is no rough draft, no warm-up. Something like a Gen-X, existentialist AMERICAN GRAFFITI with an appropriate lack of any anticipation about the coming days, its psychologically dense relationships, with their cloistered framework and an aestheticized symmetry bring to mind Henry James. The film's plot –– the evolution and dissolution and resurrection of relationships within a trio of friends –– progresses scrupulously. The emotional…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
one of the first things gary says to alana is that they aren't going to forget each other. many detractors of the film have cited (without having the vocabulary) the picaresque plot and the rotating cast of characters as making the film loose or poorly structured. but is that not the point? alana and gary are traipsing through a myriad of adventures featuring the zaniest of san fernando's citizens and the film is literally forgetting them, while our protagonists themselves…
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It's a Wonderful Life 1946
George Bailey is a great example of a character who does not experience any development whatsoever. He begins the film as a goodhearted but impulsive and sometimes irrational person — indeed his very first act in the film twines the two characteristics together and it is his impulsive that allows for his kindness and generosity: he is always lurching to give someone money, give away his honeymoon fund, beckon to the call of his Uncle Billy, defend his friends, his…
