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Young Mr. Lincoln 1939
“We do things together that we’d be mighty ashamed to do by ourselves”
As rousing, graceful and poetic as you’d expect from Ford. Myths are born from simple, good men just trying to do the right thing.
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The Brutalist 2024
“You know how a dream fades”
Refreshingly classical yet not so beholden to traditional to not experiment with the form and tackle thorny subject matter. Just a proper tried and true American epic. It’s trying to actively trying to achieve the monument status of other epics like Citizen Kane, The Godfathers and There Will be Blood and honestly gets pretty close. But not without its own merit and deeply layered story on the nature of culture, art, america and class.…
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
“That’s all folks”
Arthur Fleck doesn’t matter to anyone, even the audience who should be on his side only care about him as a stepping stone to see the titular character we paid to see. There should be nothing cathartic about his transformation into Joker. It’s a man who has legit mental health issues having a break down because of them due to poor social structures. Yet because his break down is the from of a villain we all loved…
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Megalopolis 2024
“Don’t let the now destroy forever”
A plea for a better tomorrow. Playful, operatic, melancholic, exhausting. An old man full of so much regret begging for all of us to try and make things better, to look with eyes that are full of hope instead of despair. Live for everyone not just ourselves. Honor the past but make for a better future. You basically see all of cinema history fold in on itself here in one big massive formal achievement.…
