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Onibaba 1964
The images are very good! Hell of a mask. Sick photography, with the grass and rain and shaped light. Bleak premise, predicated on characters who live off of killing straggler soldiers during endless war. And thematically, this holds together pretty well; desperate people will be desperate people. And apparently very sexual.
The action is just a little repetitive, especially as the Onibaba appears, with little mystery there. Kinda thin.
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997
Clearly an excuse to focus and expand on the setpieces from the first one, and it's very good at this.
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The Zone of Interest 2023
In Shoah, there's a bit where folks who lived near gas chambers describe how they eventually tuned out how the sounds they heard all the time until they were just ambience.
I think part of Glazer's formal conceit here is seeing how long we, as viewers, can sit with the mundane while we're hearing the same sounds, through the whole film. Do we eventually stop hearing it as we focus our attention on the Höss family's gross little lives? That's…
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It's a Wonderful Life 1946
Who is the guy that gives Mary's boring suitor the key to make the pool open?! Why does he care?!