movies

Brokeback Mountain (2006)
A lifelong forbidden love ignites when Ennis' stoic repression and Jack's yearning defiance collide in one fateful Wyoming summer. Despite the vast wandering vistas, they soon find society's suffocating edifice still shackles, which shapes their lives through decades of concealed ache. This transcends far beyond just "gay cowboys", it's a catholic howl against social conformity's cage, where love festers in shadows and self-denial becomes survival. Two decades since release, its tremors still fracture the soul. A paradise lost, "old Brokeback got us good" Jack whispers.

Hair (1979)
A verdant time capsule of hippie idealism, its kaleidoscopic costumes and vibrant choreography elevates the anti-war anthems filling us with Electric Blues euphoria. We're all debutantes seduced by the Aquarius dream, Ain't Got No care but freedom, mocking societal rigidity and hypocrisy which villainizes Hashish yet metes out death. Though late to Vietnam, its spirit remains evergreen showing there's no difference between Black Boys and White Boys all asking Where Do I Go? Hare Krishna indeed, we're all Going Down but feverously reminded that I Got Life and needless war is the perennial foe.

Falling Down (1993)
We witness Douglas' character the day he descends into societal anomie, his villainy masquerading as righteous fury. An autopsy of the American psyche; prejudices laid bare, he's lucid rage erupting between banal bigotries and it chills as he coherently rationalizes each outburst. His hope for martyrdom and his final plea reveals the true underlying universal issue. No catharsis, only collapse.
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Hanu-Man (2024)
This anachronistic parody flip-flops between Bollywood buffoonery and earnest heroics. Subpar CGI is the least of its worries as the villain's sidekick gratingly proclaims "shazam" in nearly every sentence while the villain is a ludicrous relic of 80's B-movies. Not saved by the monkey god's might, but by the power of familial bonds and its song and dance numbers. However, I'd sooner re-watch this over Shazam!

Gladiator II (2024)
Stultifying spectacle of sequel decay, a thunderous CGI colossus with lightning absent from its veins. Mistaking magnificence for majesty, its marquee celebrities and grand visual opulence siphons essential vitality to leaden choreography and a moribund script. A two and a half hour threnodic parade to inter the deceased Muses.