The Dark Passenger
Another Earth: La fantascienza come metafora
La mia recensione @ Serialmente
David has always been a simulacrum, and in the film’s final scene the resurrected Monica is one as well; both are as reproducible as the separate prints of a film. Viewers who criticize their final scene together—also an improved simulacrum, in this case of much earlier scenes between them—as sentimental usually overlook that it’s occurring long after humanity has died out. This means that the death Naremore refers to has to be the death of an emotion or idea—even if, as the film’s offscreen narration implies, it’s also the birth of a dream, a robot’s dream. Perhaps it could be regarded as an artificial and manufactured footnote to the human race, a sort of ghostly echo. Something, in short, that is very much like a film.
Like Naremore, I weep during the final scene of A.I. and I don’t know who or what I’m weeping for—even though, like him, I can recall the line cited in the film by Yeats (a poet who also once wrote, “In dreams begin responsibilities”): “The world’s more full of weeping / than you can understand.” Like him, I suspect that my tears must have something to do with both the loss of my own mother and my experience of cinema—what it means to be born and then to be abandoned, and also what it means to bask in the familial warmth and shelter of a film and a film theater before being ejected from both.
- Jonathan Rosenbaum
(Fonte: oldfilmsflicker)
A.I. is a film about having been programmed emotionally— something that the cinema does to us all, and a subject that my first book, Moving Places, attempted to explore. This is one reason why, as a profound meditation on the difference between the human and the mechanical, A.I. constitutes one of the best allegories about cinema that I know. And to recount this allegory in terms of a mother’s love makes it even more devastating. - Jonathan Rosenbaum
(Fonte: oldfilmsflicker)
The Big Bang Theory – 5×24 – “The Countdown Reflection”
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The Killing – 2×03 – “Numb”
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The Walking Dead – 2×12 – Better Angels
John Carter: Epica d’altri tempi
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Luck - 1x05 - “Episode Five”
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And that scene also begins with dialogue that seems like fun, while it’s also laying more groundwork. We meet Lance’s girlfriend Jody, who is pierced in every possible place and talks about her piercing fetish. Tarantino is setting up his payoff. When the needle goes into the heart, you’d expect that to be one of the most gruesome moments in the movie, but audiences, curiously, always laugh. In a shot-by-shot analysis at the University of Virginia, we found out why. QT never actually shows the needle entering the chest. He cuts away to a reaction shot in which everyone hovering over the victim springs back simultaneously as Mia leaps back to life. And then Jody says it was “trippy” and we understand that, as a piercer, she has seen the ultimate piercing. The body language and the punchline take a grotesque scene and turn it into dark but genuine comedy. It’s all in the dialogue and the editing.
- Roger Ebert on Pulp Fiction
(Fonte: rogerebert.suntimes.com)
nella realtà di Story Brook il Charming di turno non si limita a non soddisfare l’ideale nobile e superomistico a cui le favole ci hanno abituato. Lui va oltre: supera lo stereotipo e riesce ad offrire un’esemplare prova di maschia merluzzaggine.
Non fosse chiaro, ve lo spiego in termini scientifici: è un coglione di rara fattura; vediamo perché.
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“David è deceduto per una complicanza della sua paresi facciale”
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