An Oedipal disaster movie.
Tag: film analysis
Groundhog Day (1993)
What would you do if you were stuck and live the same day over and over again?
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
“The Adam Sandler movie for people who don’t like Adam Sandler movies”
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Bicycle Thieves reminds the Hollywood viewer of the unpleasant reality outside the movie theatre.
Wit (2001)
“Nothing but a breath–a comma–separates life from life everlasting. It is very simple really. With the original punctuation restored, death is no longer something to act out on the stage, with exclamation points. It is a comma, a pause.”
The Song of Sparrows (2008)
The film has an authentic approach to the commonly held conflict between the moral rural and the virtueless urban.
And Your Mother Too (2001)
The film looks like it is obsessed with sex, but actually it is obsessed with death.
The Banishment (2007)
“Love tolerates all, it believes all, it hopes all. Love bears all.”
Adaptation. (2002)
How Charlie Kaufman uses the most cliché to remain being the most maverick.
Dogville (2003)
Evil can arise anywhere, as long as the situation is right.