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You’ve heard the buzz. It’s impossible to ignore. Paul Thomas Anderson’s new epic, One Battle After Another, has landed with the force of a cultural comet. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and a revelatory Teyana Taylor, the film has been hailed as a masterpiece. Critics are throwing around 10/10 scores. It’s been declared an early… Continue reading The Exhaustion Is the Point: Why I Appreciated, But Didn’t Enjoy, “One Battle After Another”
Some films entertain. Others educate. A rare few, like Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, perform something akin to a cultural exorcism, forcing us to confront a historical trauma so profound it remains etched in the soul of society. The film’s unflinching portrayal of physical violence is a necessary and harrowing education in the horrors… Continue reading The Architecture of Hell: Deconstructing the Psychological Brutality of ’12 Years a Slave’
There are films you watch, and there are films you inhabit. Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon unequivocally belongs to the latter category. Watching it for the first time is an almost otherworldly experience: you step into an art gallery where 18th-century paintings suddenly come to life. Every frame is a canvas, every movement a choreography, every… Continue reading Living Inside a Painting: The Cold, Tragic Beauty of Barry Lyndon
There are films that entertain, and then there are works that, almost without asking permission, install themselves in our consciousness, becoming part of our emotional landscape. These are films that do not merely tell a story, but aspire to define the spirit of an entire generation, to mirror a nation, to weave a tapestry so… Continue reading The Best of Youth: Living History Firsthand, Without Exclamation Points
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