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Essential Killing is all the more political a work for refusing the obvious ways it could be about politics.
Chris Fujiwara
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August 23, 2010
To Have Done with the Contemporary Cinema
A film must be untimely to be worth talking about.
The current notion that 3D somehow radically changes, or will save, cinema—either by dragging it further toward some aesthetic destiny or just by bringing more asses into the theater—is the kind of apocalyptic idea that comes out of a crisis perception, as happened before during the crisis of the early 1950s, when Hollywood studios were desperate for some gimmick to lure viewers back to the box office; let’s call it Bwana Devil Syndrome.
