Kristof Szabó Pro

Routine complainer, occasional writer. Eng/Hun. (Filmtekercs, Epik.hu)

Favorite films

  • Fireworks
  • Vanishing Point
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • The Killer

All
  • Strange Days

    ★★★★½

  • HyperNormalisation

    ★★★★

  • Queer

    ★★★

  • Clash by Night

    ★★★½

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Strange Days

1995

★★★★½ Liked 2

Surely a bit antiquated and 90's coded in some areas, but also eerily precident in its vision of selective memories being captured into digital artifice ready to be sold, capitalized and replayed in your brain endlessly as a means to escape the apocalyptic, constant chaos of the everyday world. And at the same time technology like this can also be weaponized into voyeurism, violence, disinformation and human darkness, forever entrapping a part of its victims into the machine. The world…

HyperNormalisation

2016

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Major part of the "Movies that will turn you into the fucking Joker" canon.

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Look Back

2024

★★★★★ Liked 38

When I was about 26 years old, there was a dark, grim period in my life when I wanted to die. I was working full time at a library and my salary was so low, that I could no longer pay the rent and was forced to move back to my parents. I spent nearly two years learning editing at a night school, but despite my best efforts I could not get a job at the film industry. I felt…

Scavengers Reign

2023

★★★★★ Liked 5

This is science-fiction at its best: Futuristic yet tangible, a mesmerizing, often psychedelic visual feast, a thought-provoking odyssey that examines the violent struggle/symbiosis between nature and man, going full body horror mode at times, lacks any simplistic messaging or screenwriter clichés and creates a detailed, intriguing world while implies a bigger universe that surrounds it. A universe where mankind feels like a dust particle, yet can make its individual impact on it. I really hope more and more people will discover this series, it really deserves it.