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1969

★★★★ Watched 21 May 2025

A British satire of capitalism brought the extremes of absurdity through the lack of narrative structure for a plethora of gags between Peter Sellers, the bored billionaire, and Ringo Starr, the newly adopted son of Sellers, coming out of poverty. The screenplay comes from the novel by Terry Southern, who takes a subversive view of society and the politics of the time, which is evident in many of his other projects. The main song throughout is written by Paul McCartney,…

2014

★★★½ Watched 20 May 2025

A dark comedy about a friend (Ben Schwartz) who has to retrieve his dead friend's body in Mexico and bring it back home, but there are many issues getting it back. The structure of the story is the five stages of grief and how love through time will help heal, even with the confusing ing exposition of this story.

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2024

★★★★★ 2

I apologize for all of the skepticism that I spread for this film. Wicked: Part I gave me everything that I ever dreamed of and wanted in a film adaptation of the Broadway show (since I was convinced that I would be the one to direct the film), plus way more than I could imagine. This was Cinema.

The most cinematic quality of the film that choked me up every time was the tears that glistened down the characters' faces;…

1922

★★★★½ Rewatched 18 Sep 2024

During this viewing, I was interested in the title cards (for the English version) that used font in a less expressionistic way but were more formal in the storytelling and narrative. It continues to be chilling to watch the stare from across the lake and the use of shadows to show the creeping nature of this film.

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