Neo J. Lesego

stuck in fucking chickentown.

Favorite films

  • The Big Sleep
  • Detour
  • The Lady from Shanghai
  • In a Lonely Place

All
  • The Long Goodbye

    ★★★★★

  • Eyes Wide Shut

    ★★★★★

  • Rope

    ★★★★½

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    ★★★★★

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Dune: Part Two

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

as anarchistic, ecologically conscious, eccentric, colorful, or philosophically in-depth as herbert's novel? no. one could argue he even loses herbert’s deep commentary on power, reducing it to a mere white savior narrative to feel more contemporary.

in place of that, however, villeneuve cultivates a dynamic, pulsating, blood-pumping, unforgettable spectacle. pure experience. spectacle as an art form. it puts dune up there with the likes of the matriX and star wars, using the most cutting-edge modern filmmaking technology, just as both of those masterpieces did.

the trade-off of herbert’s intellectual depth for villeneuve’s masterful spectacle, in the end, feels more like a deliberate recalibration—not a failure.

Dune

2021

★★★★½ Liked Watched

as anarchistic, ecologically conscious, eccentric, colorful, or philosophically in-depth as herbert's novel? no. one could argue he even loses herbert’s deep commentary on power, reducing it to a mere white savior narrative to feel more contemporary.

in place of that, however, villeneuve cultivates a dynamic, pulsating, blood-pumping, unforgettable spectacle. pure experience. spectacle as an art form. it puts dune up there with the likes of the matrix and star wars, using the most cutting-edge modern filmmaking technology, just as both of those masterpieces did.

the trade-off of herbert’s intellectual depth for villeneuve’s masterful spectacle, in the end, feels more like a deliberate recalibration—not a failure.

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Persona

1966

★★★★★ Liked 2

My Second Ingmar Bergman and I certainly plan to watch him as chronologically as possible,after this l because wtf man did it exceed my expectations.

Persona is a masterful filmic lyrical masterpiece,whose songs shall ring in your heart for infinity.
It is not of matter of what Alma and Elizabet represent logically or narratively, it's more about what they represent to each other and in the most general sense, to each other they represent paradox.

Certainly one of the best…

Megalopolis

2024

Liked 4

Watch out Ho's greatest movie ever incoming.

Francis' actual full body of work is painfully underrated overlooked whatever fucking word you wanna use, everything after the 70s from him is completely ignored and disregarded,it's like people cant enjoy films without the permission of public discourse even tho they are all masterpieces.

So early in my cinematic journey I can tell Francis don't get the love he deserves even tho he is probably the greatest living director only rivalry being Lynch, Scorsese and Miyazaki.

Anyway let me stop yapping this is going to be a masterpiece and one of the best final films (God Forbid but...)

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