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theficionado

theficionado
Cinema Addict
# Film Ratings: 1908
Member Since: 02 May 2007
Location: Sneedville, TN, USA

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Dogville
Dogville (2003) - Rated 08 Jun 2009
Well, that was the most fucked-up community production of Our Town I'VE ever seen.
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor (2001) - Rated 05 Oct 2007
Bay directs the slaughter by air of hundreds of sailors with the same weight that he directs giant robot-cars punching each other in their metallic faces. In other words, Michael Bay is a sociopath, which is seemingly at odds with his desire to slather every one of his pictures with a treacly sentimentality -- what, I presume, he most closely approximates human emotion to be, the better to distract us from his own glaring lack of it.
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Syndromes and a Century
Syndromes and a Century (2006) - Rated 03 Sep 2009
More tonal poem than narrative, Syndromes's bifurcated structure explores the distance between the fertile/feminine, the mechanical/masculine. The camera proves a medium between the two, capturing the same exchanges from startling, unexpected angles. The visual convergence of solar eclipse and dark pipe suggests a blurring of time and space and even subjectivity. Visual representation of Buddhist cyclicality, rural/urban discordance, our inability to learn from our mistakes? Dunno, but I love it