Category: 2000s
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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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The White Ribbon stuck with me far longer than I thought it was going to. While Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997) was effective in making the audience feel like an active participant in the sadistic murder of a family, The White Ribbon was spine-chilling in how it made me akin to a willfully ignorant bystander.…
BEYOND THE FRAME 