This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Metropolis 1927
Bro was down so bad he gained class consciousness. Anyways I will literally never look at movies the same again
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King Kong 1933
Movie magic! I really don’t know if we’ve gotten a version of this classic Kong story that I love, but cool to imagine the sweeping spectacle this was for the time. And it still is a sight to behold! Absolutely insane quote:
“Say, I guess I love you”
“Why, Jack! You hate women!”
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The Wolf Man 1941
It is so clear to me that the wolf man is the best universal classic monster, and that werewolves in general are underappreciated. I always felt excluded from vampire fever but as my frontal lobe develops i am slowly freed by the realization that I was a werewolf all along. The werewolf era is coming. Save us Leigh Whannell save us!!!!!
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It's a Wonderful Life 1946
First time ever watching! Beautiful direction, beautiful ending, beautiful performances and beautiful Clarence. The most cathartic of tears.
It really is a wonderful life :’) love you all with my entire heart, happy holidays and merry xmas to all who are celebrating tomorrow!! ❤️🔔 -
Bicycle Thieves 1948
First stop in my mini year of Italian cinema! Pretty devastating picture of desperation and division in the working class, where small acts of kindness earn a life debt. Sad that almost 80 years later this appreciation for the moral grays of survival in a broken system isn’t commonplace. He better stop sprinting off without Bruno or he’s gonna be childless too!
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The Third Man 1949
“In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Another banger from the 1940s! An immersive noir that plays with themes of morality and builds tension with the politics of the environment + the protagonist’s outsider status.
It is so crazy that Orson Welles had such a huge impact on this film when he was barely in it! His first scene… I need a moment.…
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