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Relationships-focused film reviews of tearjerkers, rom-coms, love lost and love found.

Film Synopsis
The Pianist The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, tells the story of a talented Polish Jewish pianist who goes into hiding to avoid falling into the clutches of the Nazis during World War II. He suffers from starvation and humiliation in the Warsaw ghetto and is under the threat of death all day long. He escaped the carpet searches and hid in the ruins of the city. Fortunately, his musical talent touches a German officer, and under his protection, the pianist finally survives until the end of the war and the dawn of freedom.
By NatalieMarmol4 years ago in Humans
Frank's silence and the sound of waiting to be found
Since the film reminded me of the introduction I had seen about underground punk bands in Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, I went to search for relevant materials. I did not find the article IN my mind, but I found something else that might help me better understand some cultural phenomena mentioned in the film. The first was an article titled "Slavic,East European,and Eurasian Punk Alternative Publications:Challenges to Fugitive Materials," Written by Adams Kevin. Its focus is less on punk history itself and more on the collection and collation of relevant fugitive materials. These materials include but are not limited to manuscripts, posters, illegally distributed music tapes (as filmed in the film, for example, at the beginning, the band pasted live performance posters in the streets, and Frank secretly stuffed his own recorded music tapes into his sewn clothes for his friends to find a way to take them out) and underground music magazines. Because these works were often illegal or subject to severe distribution restrictions (Roksi, the first widespread pop rock magazine in the Soviet Union, for example, issued only six copies of each of the first three issues of the Soviet Press Law), it is difficult to find a fully preserved collection in official databases. Frank's "political psychosis" is also, to some extent, a metaphor for the reality of the underground artists of that era in the film, who are forced to stop speaking, their silence is purged, erased, and then completely lost their voice when it's all over. Whether or not these lost voices can be recovered, the howling of pain that they have missed, depends at this stage of history more on whether we listeners can recover them from those fragmentary memories.
By JOKER4 years ago in Humans
Don't leave your comfort zone easily
Young people often hear older kids mention several games, including Might & Magic, Red Alert, and Dune. Then himself had a computer, "red alert" has been up to the second generation, the "red alert 1" and makes the same studio production and fellow RTS class "dune 2" but I always did not have the opportunity to personally to fit to play, only know "dune" adapted from the movie of the same, then also heard that the film is lame. Bizarrely, that film was directed by my favorite David Lynch, and the book on which the film is based, Dune, is a beloved sci-fi classic. One plus one is less than one, which shows how difficult it is to adapt dune's story.
By Iron man4 years ago in Humans
The end of the Marvel Universe is the Ex Walkthrough
You want to leave without being told what's going on? A father and daughter are stranded in a desert much like Mad Max 4. The two saviors best suited to lead the poor masses against their fate in this wastelard are both absent, the woman wearing a wig to charm Strange, the man banging his symbionts.
By Iron man4 years ago in Humans
The birth and white-hot of tragedy
White heat is shown in this film: the searing steam of trains, the teargas of factory confrontations that confuses everything, and finally the flames of a refinery explosion. All kinds of expressive pictures correspond to psychoanalytic factors of a psychological category -- Cody's Oedipus complex and the great anxiety of schizophrenia. The film is eclectic in genre: prison break, gangster and undercover, with a hyper-efficient narrative, a high-powered pace and, ultimately, a fire like a ball can exploding in a refinery.
By JOKER4 years ago in Humans
The conflict between good and evil
I didn't really understand the movie. But after seeing the analysis of a big man of Zhihu, I had a feeling of dispashing the clouds and seeing the fog.
By JOKER4 years ago in Humans
"You can live forever," a beautiful fantasy the innocent girl concocts for herself
The long-awaited movie You Can Live Forever, also known as The Canadian film, is destined to BE. But now I think about it, most of the first love is unforgettable but never ends, especially the female contacts. But still strongly recommend you to look at all, yan like abuse of PALS don't miss, love the appearance level of the Japanese, but the movie is in place for sentiment processing is very exquisite, chemical reaction between the two actress is also very strong, especially the communication between eyes, one eye can flared.
By JOKER4 years ago in Humans
The truck was loaded with hard candy
I read it intermittently. I didn't wear my glasses for half an hour, people were blurry. John had only a few months to live, and he had to find a new family for the child.
By JOKER4 years ago in Humans
A brief evolutionary history of clowns
The joker was inspired by another joker In 1928, the movie "The Funny Man" was released. It's based on a famous novel by Victor Hugo about a misshapen "joker" who falls in love at the circus. The character has a long face, sliced-back hair that forms a sharp corner at the back of his head, and a wide grin that inspired the greatest comic book villain of all time, the Joker.
By wengdadi4 years ago in Humans
My Most Anticipated Movie of 2022. Top Story - July 2022.
As someone who became an Austen fan (or I should say obsessed, crazy fan) relatively recently, this was the first movie adaption that I followed throughout the announcement of the movie to the actual release date. When I found out that they were making a new Persuasion movie I was most excited, especially because Henry Golding was going to be in it, but when I say my heart hurts after watching just the trailer- I'm not even kidding.
By The Austen Shelf4 years ago in Humans
'Haven't I Always Treated You Right?'
An elderly white man in an elegant black coat stands on the deck of a ship. He smiles warmly, patting the shoulder of the well-dressed slave in front of him. The African-American beams, his eyes shining with undying faith and adoration as he grasps the hand of his master. His bleached teeth are a sharp, cartoonish contrast against his dark skin. The Virginian children reading the textbook this picture is taken from cannot help but share his grin. What a happy sight! What a happy illusion. These instances of mistaking indoctrination for education have persisted far beyond Lincoln’s abolition. Recently, Scholastic came under fire for publishing a children's picture book depicting the slave Hercules and his daughter Delia cheerfully baking a cake for George Washington's birthday. America, a nation built on freedom, should condemn those who wield the lash. Instead, it praises those who restrain themselves from using it. Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s satirical short story and Jordan Peele’s horror film combat this with their own proposal: a beneficent master can never truly exist if they drop the charitable act as soon as they are a master no longer. This essay will argue that “The Passing of Grandison '' and Get Out tear down the fantasies of white supremacists, using allusion, irony, dialogue, and symbolism to expose the duplicity within their so-called justifications for the exploitation of black bodies.
By Wen Xiaosheng4 years ago in Humans
'Older and Wiser' - A Review
Like all baby boomers, I’m moving into a new phase of life these days. Although I’m among the youngest of my generation, I’m now semi-retired and my parents have passed away along with all of my uncles and aunts.
By David Morton Rintoul4 years ago in Humans