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Al Pacino and Gene Hackman are drifters. You’re looking at a strain of precious hope, joy and playful innocence that’s trying to survive through all kinds of gritty and heart-rending situations. I can’t say any more for fear of spoiling it. Blew the roof off my head both times I saw it. Watch if you want a beautiful carving of what real life feels like or if you are a clown at heart who wonders if there’s a place for you…..
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friends it is so good and awesome, it’s available on criterion!!!
I like to think of myself as someone with good movie taste and i highly recommend this one, it’s fun it’s has some good plot twists and the camera work is amazing!! Also it’s Al Pacino?!
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There's something quite startling about Martin Scorsese's 1980's period compared to the rest of his decades as one of America's greatest filmmakers. In the 80's, he was weird, strange, and making weirdly manic films that feel more New York than even some of his movies about the mob. They're movies about characters who aren't glamarous people that they want to be, but rather, are losers who can't seem to correctly fucntion in normal society. They're non-violent sociopaths. I saw The King of Comedy at Metrograph recently, and it's exhilarating, hilarious, manic, and scary. With Jerry Lewis, Bobby De Niro and Sandra Bernhard, Scorsese was able to create a world where incels who are bad at comedy are wishing for fame. Sound familiar?
This is a great movie. In 1983, it was a box office flop. But in 2025, it is magical in how it's telling the future. A future of scam artists who don't want to work to get there, and don't want to sit in their mediocrity: they want to steal to get their fifteen seconds. Go watch this masterpiece.
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Even though I felt as lost as Gene Hackman’s character at times, I liked it that way. A movie you really feel as much as follow.
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This book means everything to me. Laughter, tears, complication, something enduring. Theres a sick as fuck old guy named father zosima. Much to think about
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