Ephemera of Vision
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.
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The first third really trick you into this being just some American Pie shit. But it’s really not, the gopnik is the real working-class hero. Fucking rich assholes.
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This is still very cool, even though Marie’s death is extremely shocking. Why, does Bourne need extra motivation? She was just another Collateral Murder.
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This is truly the Citizen Kane of our time, but it’s only accidentally brilliant. Know idiot and delusional Aaron Sorkin tries to suck Zuckerberg’s cock while maintaining eye contact all the time, but it backfires and both look like absolute idiots.
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Why does this have to be so complicated and convoluted? There’s at least three interlocking stories here, stories withing stories.
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A remake in name only. The main character is not even named. Plot with a bit of porn, nothing outside French standards.
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A childish The Matrix/I, Robot, directed by Michael Bay. Who the fuck wrote this, a 15 year old teenage boy? checks Oh, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, yikes! At least in the grimdark future, you can ride a public maglev from Arizona to LA, thanks Elon!
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Such a great melodrama split in two parts, but I preferred the first one. The second is tinged with colonial disgust in every scene, always there in the background, you can never ignore it.
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More like XXX for Gen X.
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A war film by Terrence Malick, sounds like a contradiction but the Malick-ness wins, it’s slow and soothing. Half of it it’s shots of weird jungle animals, Melanesian people enjoying life in a remote island away from the big brouhaha of modern cities, or soldiers on leave frolicking with said natives.
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A slow burn over Christian superstition. Burns it out to the ground, not even the ashes remain. It seems God speaks Welsh, a gentleman of ill repute.
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What the hell, I really only got the point with the last text crawl, good job everyone. It’s really The Witch meets Million Dollar Baby.
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It’s hard to believe the current mainstream horror cinema for teenagers is giallo body horror, but with extremely detailed CGI and perhaps some practical effects too.
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It’s a joke, you see, Jimmy Stewart plays a complete buffoon. Too bad Doris Day is a woman in a 50’s film and can’t do anything but call her man, even though she’s a world renowned superstar, and her hubby is a bumpkin country doctor.
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