Category: 2000s
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After witnessing her son get arrested at a pro-democracy rally in East Germany, single mother Christiane has a near-fatal heart attack that puts her in a coma for the forseeable future. As she sleeps, her children witness the fall of the Berlin Wall and the gradual Westernization of the German Democratic Republic, leading to a…
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For our final screening of the semester, I was surprised. Throughout this course, I came into every screening expecting there to be sharp and cutting violence that jolts the senses, but The Son (2002) does so differently. The film’s realist tendencies undercut how sometimes the worst part of violence is not just the act itself,…
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During the Bosnian War (1992-1995), a Bosniak soldier by the name of Ciki falls into a trench after being ambushed by Bosniak Serbs. One of the Bosniak Serb soldiers, Nino, is held hostage by Ciki after the latter ambushes him, and despite some antagonism, the two are tenuously bonded by the need to survive after…
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Instead of the future being an exciting entity in Minority Report, there is a sort of indifference to it, since it is already known. The world of Washington DC in 2054 is essentially a recreated mythology, with the Precogs resembling the Oracles in how they retell abstract versions of the future. But with the addition…
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