I'd forgotten them, or remembered them, but the old them, the genius Street of Crocodiles, they're still at work and it would appear I've some catching up to do...
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Corrosive dreams and nightmares for your viewing pleasure...
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"The Limit of Love is that you need an accomplice..."
On the list of forbidden films, and having watched it I can see why. A dark parable foreshadowing the rise of the EU, with De Sade as some sort of Nostradamus, while far worse can be be found onilne (but really, who's going searching? I don't want to know) - the film does a fine job of tying in the various misdeeds of the fascists with the writings of De Sade; disturbing, occasionally brilliant, with Aldo Valletti's eerie portrayal of the president, a good film, a great film even, speaking of the links between power and the countless ways to pervert and abuse it; but there are things you can't recommend, this is one of them, dark, dark, dark, and few will understand it ...
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I'm not making this up. After a 4 or 5 minute introduction designed to make us "feel" for the protagonist, a trio of evil Russian gangsters (is that a tautology?) make the mistake of stealing his car and killing his dog.
At which point he sets about on a homicidal killing spree that only ends with complete extirpation of the Russian Mafia.
A curious, alternate universe, in which hired assassins all have a secret underground world involving hotels, nightclubs, and the payment for everything in gold Krugerrand's, stylish and silly, but really, what can I say about a movie that justifies a 50 odd person killing spree with a line like "You stole my car and you killed my dog...", and ends a line like: "No more guns, no more bullets" during a hand to hand battle that involves the villain pulling a switchblade?
John Wick, the new and improved spokesperson for the SPCA.
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And after a bit of a run of nonsense, finally a film worth watching. At 2 and a half hours long, it's too short, the cinematography is brilliant, the settings, amazing, the plot, well, it's a bit of crawl around the Soviet subconscious, but well worth it. Hard to believe it was made in 1979, but they still used writers then, and not computers...
Link: Wikipedia on Stalker
Link: YouTube Trailer
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