Politics masquerading as film. The spectacle and affective allure of cinema redefines the traditional (liberal) political operation of art: from coincidental serendipity to hysterical mass-mobilization. It highlights concerns with the current state of climate politics based on the COVID19 model.xxxx
An incredible spectacle of all things rich, glamorous, technological and philosophical, that is undermined, unfortunately, by being forced into streaming services that attenuate its natural cinematic language and render the film's complex point even more inscrutable (and inaudible).
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A deeply moving and profoundly philosophical intervention into the problems facing contemporary Sweden. If social change can be produced through moving-image, this series is its proof.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Initially difficult to endure, this HBO series evokes a profound historical consciousness of the struggle for communal life in the face of liberalism's contrived alienation and cultivated resignation.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An interesting genre-comedy of Wild West gun-slinging incompetence that exposes fundamental structures of human-being stripped-bare of all of its pretenses, and a glimpse of the basis of authentic religious belief.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Joker presents an interesting, if over-worked character study of the transformation of Thought possible at the bottom of abject, alienated human existence. It's political potential, however, is intentionally displaced and it ends-up contributing to reproducing the problem it describes.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A film worth watching for the poetic statement of the last few scenes on existing during a time of economic precarity, over-determined by a logic of utilitarian expediency. Starring Ethan Hawke.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx