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What i watched in 2020:

 I'm not going to go through everything obviously and also because cinetrakt the service i use to keep track of everything has from time to time lost clumps of my ratings which is highly annoying so I'm now changing to letterboxd here's my full profile: ‎yoyocrazybones’s profile • Letterboxd most of my ratings are on their 50 or so are missing which I'm trying to resolve. Anyways I'm inly going to point out films which i gave a 10/10 or specifically impressed me enough for whatever reason. The reviews are going to be fairly short to make sure this isn't really really long. True Romance 10/10 amazing film with an awesome shootout and Brad Pitt as a stoner who lays on a couch the entire time. Andy Murray: Resurfacing 7/10 a film which somehow made me care about tennis. The Report 8/10 just in general love films about exposing the corruption and absolute rubbish which goes on in government and confirms my beliefs we should tear it all down :) Malcolm X 10/10 Denzel...

Societies fear as representations in film

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 This is a fairly big subject firstly because fear is different for different countries in the U.K. there isn't a shared fear that a polar bear may maul us which may be the case for towns inside the arctic circle secondly because fear changes over time so representative examples from the 50s aren't likely to match ones from the 90s. Often it takes at least a little while for these fears to manifest in film because it usually needs some sort of catalyst or time for it to be worth showing it in film so that it shows as more than just an irrational fear  This is Tetsuo: the iron man this is a Japanese film which represents fears in 1980-1990s Japan during this time Japan started to become a competitor in electronics bringing lots of money into the economy. The film follows the titular Tetsuo as he is cursed to become a being of Iron the fear of many in Japan in that time was that this technology would begin to trample over their rich history and culture. The film quite literally ...