Doesn't quite reach the same levels of absurdist deconstruction and tonal exasperation as something like Freddy Got Fingered but the conceptual basis alone of the "solution" to escaping from capitalist oppression being to hopelessly resurrect a dead mall, a culture that has long been left to rot leaving behind a makeshift archive for a time that can truly never be reached again, is so brilliant and genuinely brutally honest about the state of the world in a way it couldn't… more
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Reality is as weightless as a dream, dream is as self-foundational as the past, the past is as mentally incisive as reality. Effective entirely because it refuses to adhere to one perspective both metaphysically and within the rigid structure of the war film, leaving gaps in the story's internal reality as often as it does within fragmented recollection. Tarkovsky's cinema has always been about being attuned to an inherently incomplete picture and letting the audience's experiences inform the gaps as… more
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