Rollerball
Look at us, look at what they make you give.
Some believe this can be over-analysed to extract some nuggets of criticism of spectacle society from a libertarian point of view, but it’s very much a slog, painfully slow at spaces. The political points are very much esoteric and subdued, oblique references in “as you know” statements.
That video essay is really great, superior to sitting through the film even, so I’ll just link it here again:
The remake was stripped of whatever artistic meaning it had.
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This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.