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Freddy Got Fingered 2001
At first, I was tempted to write an actual piece on this movie. It is rare for a film to both simultaneously activate my fight or flight instincts and make me conjure comparisons to Cassavetes’s Love Streams and Godard’s Weekend (I actually have a reason for this comparison). In a sense, films that evoke the most extreme responses are films that I’d like to commemorate by writing pieces on them. However, upon further reflection, is there any piece of legitimate writing…
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Eureka 2000
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Its a meditation on trauma.
We never see the bus jacking. We don’t know the mans motives for doing such a heinous crime. We only see it’s devastating psychological impacts on 3 damaged survivors. This is not a story about victims, this is the story of moving on. This is a story of recovery. This is the story of human triumph over darkness.
As equally bleak as it is hopeful, it’s generally a tragedy but it never feels overtly…