Armilio
Bio: A nerd guy nerding on the 7th art. The rankings reflect just how much I personally enjoyed a film, without any claims of being critically objective.
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Mommy (2014) - Rated 14 May 2015 |
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Ai no mukidashi (2008) - Rated 29 Aug 2015
"This film has everything: kung-fu, revenge, comedy of error, romantic drama, religious satire, Japan social satire. But at the center of all of that, there is one big statement: love is an erection, and it's not a perversion."
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Barry Lyndon (1975) - Rated 21 Dec 2014
"This film can be analyzed on 3 layers: 1°, the historic reconstruction; 2°, the society of the XVIII century, that hide envy, greed, classism, under bonton and powder; the 3°, the deeper, is the one more related with the Kubrick view on life and mankind: Redmond, after all his journey, return exactly in the condition where he started, but having lost all his moral qualities trying the social climbing. We are never really in control of our life, and history watch our weary with delighted eyes."
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A Most Violent Year (2014) - Rated 21 May 2015
"It's a better "American Hustle". A film about the illusions of the American Dream & Values, but this is not the best part. It's incredibly tense from start to finish, Morales always carry a burden, litterally: a bag of money, a contract, a baseball's mace, a gun. Well, not always, often, but i think it's a part of the costruction of suspense. Stylish directing, with a gorgeous images composition, some good ideas in the few action scenes, and a love for the '70s classics in the heart."
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eXistenZ (1999) - Rated 06 May 2016
"What many people don't understand it's that the cheesy lines, the unlikely situations, it's because your are watching a twisted and self-ironic RPG game. It's Cronemberg, so it's not simply a film that play on virtual reality plot-twists, but on what define life, what makes us enjoy disconnect from reality and why we feel it like a taboo (see the asshole - bioport ref.), why we can't really disconnect from our eXistenZ even if we call it transCendenZ. The impotence of humans and cinema."
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Rated 21 Dec 2014
"When i think about epic story-telling, i think to Once Upon a Time in America together with very few other films. We feel nostalgy and melancholia because we can feel the passage of time, an accelerated look on a world in continuous changing that will leave us behind like an inappropriate tool, that destroy what we thought eternal. We really live few years of our life, passing the rest of the time remembering or exploiting or regretting these vital years, these few fundamental decisions."
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There Will Be Blood (2007) - Rated 21 Dec 2014
"Set in the early '900, a powerful metaphore of the fight between the old America - that has faith in religion - and the new America - that has faith in money. But both were born from blood. A rivarly between two men that is a mirror of bigger historical changes."
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Civil War (2024) - Rated 09 Nov 2024
"Nightcrawler already showed us journalists as amoral beings, servants of the information God, adrenaline junkies. C.W. is on the same line, but it's also about an apocalypse that, thanks also to the media, americans always see around the corner. A descend into madness of a young girl that, from the start, you can sense that she will end twisted, or maybe fulfilled, into a demon. And indeed she becomes an heartless clone of her idol, while the veterans die because of their last spark of humanity."
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) - Rated 08 Jun 2024
"Fury Road's plot was elegant in its simplicity. It was sharp as a knife, a two hours flawless spectacle. We were dropped in a foreign world without explanations. Everything that wasn't completely necessary was out of the movie. Furiosa is a more conventional film, longer (too long), that wants to do more character development. A revenge story, a western. And so it gets more messy. Also, Hemsworth is not as good as Tom Brady and Taylor-Joy - while giving it all - is not Theron."
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Seven Samurai (1954) - Rated 21 Dec 2014
"The point where should start every director that wants to make an action/war/epic movie. A cornerstone in film history. It's all brilliant, but i think that the best thing is the perfect pacing: we have time to know people introduced to ourself, care about them, and then feeling sadness or happiness for them in the end. K. is like a farmer that let grow epicness before harvesting."
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