The one where the indigenous population could not be colonized because they were adamantly big and too scary.
It is all about the whimsy of inaccurate scientific discovery.
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A Trip to Mars 1910
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Funeral Parade of Roses 1969
At one point in 1969 for a very brief moment of time and space, a giant statue emerged in Shinjuku, Tokyo, big enough to be seen from space. Its shape was that of a hand giving a middle finger, and at the bottom, where the joint connecting it to the rest of the arm is supposed to be instead stood a rose petal. Such was the transgressive nature of Funeral Parade of Roses, a film that said, and still says,…
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The Turning Point 1945
Filmmaking-vise, Turning point is stellar if unremarkle piece, and yet it fascinates me. With the war still fresh in psyche, the film gives itself the duty to celebrate the people that gave their blood and guts to stop the spread of Nazism, even if the focus stays on the officers within closed doors, who organized the war's biggest counter-offensive and the one battle that broke the corse of history. Within the context of Cannes 46, which celebrated the "freedom" of the world from the bloody conflict and deadly ideology and was all about making alliances on a grander world scale, the win was appropriate.
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I Am Cuba 1964
Revolution as an unmatched style. It was a collaboration of Soviet and Cuban cinematic minds, gathered to create a celebrating testament of Cuba's outing from imperialist dogmas, but also at the same time parading as a middle finger directed towards the USA specifically, and the concept of the west, thematically in the wake of the recently resolved Missile crisis and Bay of Pigs failed invasion. Who knows, if it hadn't been forgotten to time for thirty odd years, it might…
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Slurpslaughter 2020
Better than Kubrick's Fear and Desire. The is a bright, fruitful future for this young director, who's barely off age. Xavier eat your shit up!
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The Handmaiden 2016
It's a craftsman's ideal. Relying heavily on its twists, turns and convolutions and like the most culturally known specimens of the genre(the sting, vertigo or sleuth) it is in a constant battle of withs with the viewer, whom the film treats as a respectful rival. It leaves carefully manufactured clues so a keen eye and a clear mind can deduct a resolution for a given time, but it also revels in pulling a rug underneath and give a left field,…
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La Promesse 1996
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The crushing reality of the unfortunate beigns with one wordless exchange as the Dardennes start their career. -
Masculin Féminin 1966
Basis for future review:
In which Godard satirises the youth of 'Marx and Coca Cola".