You can just not care about Youtubers it's like so easy you just go live your life it doesn't change anything
#1 has to be Z (1969) by Costa-Gavras, about the fascist coup in Greece in the 60s. Comrade made, you can just feel the anger of all the people involved. People talk about old movies feeling slow, this movie fucking pops. You can watch the whole thing for free in good quality here, honestly if you're not all in after the first 5 minutes, or really after the title card that says "any similarity to real person or events is not coincidental; it is intentional" followed by the speech at the fash gathering in a smoke filled room, then you won't like it.
If you like that, his State of Siege (1972) is also a classic, about when the Tupamaro urban guerrillas in Uruguay abducted US torture specialist Dan Mitrione. Just total :based-department: stuff. Filmed in Allende's Chile.
I'll second the people who mentioned Casablanca and The Bicycle Thief.
Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957) and Wages of Fear (1953) are also cool.
Peeps here recommended the :wtyp: episode on Rhodesia, definitely helped me gain some fluency with the whole thing
This is great - anyone have the og link? I'd love to share this
What would fighting back have entailed in this case?
How did Obama give up an appointment?
HoChiMaxh
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I think Skinamarink is the scariest flick I've seen in a long time, maybe ever. I think the the sense of worsening dread as the plot develops and savagery and hopelessness ratchet up is pretty unique.
I think you're right about the depressing :doomjak: feeling too, it stuck around with me for a few days. The fact that they're so young, and thus haven't fully developed a consistent set of rules for how the world definitely should be, means they begin adjusting their sense of normal to this heinous scenario that the audience understands to be completely demonic.
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Toward the end of the film the spirits seem to supplant the role of the parent while maintaining their role as tormentor, which is such a fundamentally dire and perverse development.Really great, no notes I thought it was perfect. The Hammer and Podcast fellas did a review on it last weekend (these are the guys that used to do film reviews with Breht on Rev Left Radio Back in the day.) Taylor has an interesting interpretation of the spirits as an embodiment of ideology itself - while I wouldn't phrase it exactly like that, I do think that line of thinking is what made it stand out to me.
If you're going to try watching it, go to a theatre, don't watch it on your laptop while scrolling Hexbear, it is made with the expectation you pay attention and allow the horror to sink into you