Category: 1950s
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One of the defining films of the 20th century, Rashomon (1950) questions if truth is an immovable object, and what happens when different versions of the truth collide. A man walks through the woods, hoping to collect some wood. After combing his way through trees, he stumbles upon a horrific scene. First, a white hat.…
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One thing I was intrigued by while watching Rear Window was the use of darkness in the film. Throughout the film, Jeffries has been spying on his neighbors to decipher what exactly happened to Thurwald’s wife, and this voyeurism mostly consists of Jeffries looking from his blandly decorated apartment to the brightly colored ones of…
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Despite how heavily the melodrama weighs over the film, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift’s chemistry carries the film all the way to its tragic climax. There’s something about Angela Vickers. George Eastman, the working-class nephew of the wealthy industrialist Charles Eastman, lands a job at the patriarch’s factory, where he starts dating his coworker Alice…
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Shane was a very interesting experience for me. I have not seen that many Westerns, but I was aware of their legacy, especially concerning masculinity and the pro-colonialist messages they contained. When I heard this film mythologized violence, I took it to mean that violence was mystified to become an unconscious part of the American…
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