I rewatched this on Christmas day with my good friend Jonathan, and spent the next few days trying to figure out how I would write about this film. Letterboxd has gone to shit over the holiday season, and so I finally felt motivated to start my own blog where I wrote an extended piece on the movie. I'd appreciate if it could be given a read, I'd transfer it straight here but I don't think it would look visually appealing on this site given its length, and I liked using stills to illustrate different points.
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Goodbye Julia 2023
The particularities of its sociopolitical context are refreshing enough for me to forgive some of its flaws. Competent filmmaking but rather unremarkable, it operates and moves like a typical moralistic melodrama that you'd find grabbing a fair bit of the headlines in a big international film festival. But it is nice to see a fiction feature from Sudan tackling some of these issues, even if I had some problems with the centering of a northerner's perspective as well as its…
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A Moment of Innocence 1996
Incredible. One of the most deceptively complex films I've ever seen, with a setup that seems startlingly simple and straightforward but slowly reveals layers upon layers of ideas and emotions. What struck me the most was how these two men attempted to reconstruct memories from their past, perhaps as a way of exorcising these difficult feelings that they've had for years but also raising feelings of regret and longing for the idealism that they strived for in their younger days.…
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Oppenheimer 2023
A centrist opus on the lies which America builds its mythology upon in order to enact some of the greatest evils this world has ever seen. A character piece wracked with guilt and confusion. This is Nolan's big boy movie, a sweeping epic with a powerhouse cast that is balanced to a tee; at first glance it feels like the exciting work which he has been building towards for his entire career. Nearly the entire thing is just men in…