Why "Halloween" 1978 is a classic?
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Compared to the contemporary slasher films ( with blood and guts displayed viscerally ) and even compared to
John Carpenter's other horror classic
The Thing, 1978's film
Halloween is rather un-scary in comparison. Yes, it is a slasher, where a lot of teenagers die. Yes it has a lot of disturbing ideas and a lot of rather good cinematic tension. But it is weak in the blood department. Which begs the question: What's so special about this movie?
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Is "The BFG" 2016 about the Epstein files?
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2016's
Steven Spielberg movie
The BFG ( or the Big Friendly Giant ) is about a relationship between a little girl ( played by
Ruby Barnhill ) and a giant old man ( played by Sir
Mark Rylance in his second collaboration with Spielberg ). At some point the movie becomes about a conspiracy to manipulate the Queen of England herself ( played by
Penelope Wilton ) to use her help, so that haters of BFG's relationship with the girl will be defeated with military force. So obviously it begs the question: Is this movie actually about Jeffery Epstein?
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 or the pioneer in ultraviolence
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If today we have a lot of films to choose from when we want to shock ourselves beyond believe: from barely serious, yet distrusting films by
Eli Roth through intense hyper-violence by
Coralie Fargeat or depressing looks at the world by
Lars Von Trier all the way to deranged films like
The Serbian Film, in 1970s you had probably only one true contender for such a level of derangeness. And it was the
Tobe Hooper's 1974 film
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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The Police-Force Paradox
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In 2011, French writer and director
MaΓ―wenn Le Besco went to the police station in Paris in order to try to get some information about how the police works. The research she ended up gathering, ended up portrayed in her 2011 film
Polisse about which I
already wrote a review. But one thing about this movie suck with me. And if the intention of the film was to shine light on the police-work, this means that to some extend that thing that stuck with me shows a certain, very depressing truth about the world that I don't know how to process quite yet.
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