The Neon Demon 2016 begs for a psycho-sexual analysis
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Blender Dumbass
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Nicolas Winding Refn seems to be making only cult-classics. His 2011
Drive was a moderate box office success. But a banger of a cult-classic later on, as people understood that it is not a mere action film. Then he made
Only God Forgives. A strange psycho-sexual movie where the plot lives in the crack-space between reality and dream-land. The film got misunderstood and barely made its money back. Yet those people who like it, like it very much. And then he made a straight box-office disaster
The Neon Demon that made only half of its ( rather small $7.5 million ) budget back. Yet it is seems like it's the kind of movie that just begs for a deep analysis.
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Le Grand Bleu 1988 is Besson's Dolphin Porn
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Blender Dumbass
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Luc Besson is known to be a little bit of a pervert. But I'm about to argue that, in addition to liking young women, he also has a sort of a fetish. And while with directors like
Quentin Tarantino the fetish is something rather understandable ( Quentin likes feet ). Luc Besson seems to be turned on by... well... fish. And specifically by Dolphins. His 1988 film
Le Grand Bleu is a love triangle between a young woman, an amphibian man, and a Dolphin ( which the film presents to be a mermaid ).
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Breaking The Waves
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Blender Dumbass
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Lars Von Trier is an interesting filmmaker. He directs mostly very depressing movies that are very hard to watch.
Breaking The Waves is an interesting case study in his filmography because on some weird level this is one of the rare examples of a Lars Von Trier film with a happy ending. Even though you could perhaps argue that the ending is nowhere near happy at all.
Leon The Professional
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There are a couple of movies that are so dear to me that I keep watching the end credits all the way through. Often crying through them. And
Leon: The Professional is one of those movies.