Cairo Conspiracy a.k.a Boy from Heaven is rigged with a politically charged discourse. The coming of age arc at its centre is forced to chaotically collapse with the politics of the state and thus provides an interesting narrative. However, Tarik Saleh’s writing (which supposedly won the best screenplay at Cannes) takes us through some really unengaging beats and a few disturbing turns, only to land us with a hollow film that could have used a lot of trimming to become what it wants to be.
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Crimes of the Future 2022
To say that Cronenberg’s new film is full of itself would be in understatement. The political statement that it is trying to scan across takes a little more than head scrambling to get to, but for me, personally, it really was about the filmmaker himself.
Even in its more gentler shifts, it felt like an angry indictment about the fate of horror cinema, or more especially that of body horror in the landscape of filmmaking itself.
It was at once about leaving a legacy behind, while satirising the fact that all of art reaches a state of fatigue and will most-definitely need a soft reset.
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Control 2007
The colour scheme is fuckin' black & white, and they fuckin' speak as if there's a golden shite. The fuckin' movies are all overblown, the fuckin' powers and all those fuckin' guns. The fuckin' people are fuckin' stupid, they fuckin' talk as if they know it.
The fuckin' music is fuckin' fucked, what sadness can give, not a fuckin' thing could. The fuckin' love is fuckin' unreal, with all the fuckin' dance and all them fuckin' seals.
The fuckin' cigarette is…
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