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More I fell asleep watching the original 135-minute cut of this on tv about ten years ago. Probably about 20 minutes in, though I can’t remember. It has a sort of ambient quality that is really conducive to snoozing. This time, it was the 108-minute cut on the big screen, and it was a perfect cinema experience. The acting, the faces, the vibes — they’re all off the chain. I only slept for about 15 minutes too, and luckily it was for the bit where he kills the Chinese bookie, a plot point I was able to deduce from context and the title of the film.
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More They buried pynchon’s vineland in the pet sematary of liberal orthodoxy in the imperial core and so it returned: its playful absurdity morphed to rehearsed wackiness; its paranoid-schizoid brilliance replaced with a white-bread narrative earnestness, the delivery of the latter of which anderson entrusts almost entirely to its dutiful female players, relying instead on the kinetic pleasure of its conventional form, along with some stunning visual moments, to carry the day. An able performance from zionist hotelier dicaprio (alongside product…
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Only a yank could make as credulous a piece of propaganda about British state-sponsored sectarian mass-murder in Ireland, and package it as "the truth they don't want you to hear".
Collusion here is reduced to the bumbling actions of a British state, police and military apparatus more interested in "protecting informants" than preventing or indeed prosecuting the killings of innocent Irish people.
This is an insidious lie that absolves successive British governments of their true culpability in the on-going settler-colonial…
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