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It features a middle-class family living in Taipei. Each of them at different stages of life. There is no central drama except that they are alive. It's a beautiful movie that makes you meditate on the human condition.
A Most Violent Year Barry Lyndon Breaking the Maya Code Equilibrium Margin Call Moonfall Good Kill Godzilla vs Kong Inception Seven Days in May Simone The Leopard / Il Gattopardo Trudell Until the End of the World
I still think of it as the most (the only?) “grown up” movie I’ve ever seen in its incredible realism.
I saw it many years ago in an art house theater, but oddly have never even heard a mention of it since.
Sügisball - an Estonian movie that introduced me to the works of Bohren & der Club of Gore, now my favorite band https://letterboxd.com/film/autumn-ball/
Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog moves hell and earth in this film https://letterboxd.com/film/fitzcarraldo/
Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai's movies affected me so much that when I went to Hong Kong about half my trip was just looking for the filming locations https://letterboxd.com/film/chungking-express/ & https://letterboxd.com/film/in-the-mood-for-love/
UHF - Probably the reason I like underdogs https://letterboxd.com/film/uhf/
Threads (1984), while it was made for TV in the mid-80s and some of the effects are dated, there's an almost visceral, gnawing, devatastaing, haunting (choose your adjective because not one does it justice) feeling that attaches to yourself that has yet to leave me, I think about that film every few days, especially now with some of the more recent, insane developments in politics and international relations. It rein…
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The whole matrix being a trans metaphor didn't even register for me until I heard about it in an interview on YouTube.
Funny, I think is it mostly seen as the opposite. That the media and government create a propaganda narative, a fake reality we live in. The red pill has become a symbol of breaking out of all the progressives lies.
Once you’re familiar with bible, aristotle, platoe snd few other foundational sources - no movie or book can really change your perception. Whatever you see - It’s all been described many times.