An Education: Education as the tautological path away from the traditional family, even after the facade of and traditional family economy has been bankrupted.
Coco Before Chanel: work > love > social standards.
The Fantastic Mr. Fox: Individualism as the savior of the collective standard of living, in resistance of course to capital accumulation/hoarding?
Avatar = Pocahontas + Matrix + Ferngully + Dances With Wolves + Aliens + 3D. Also the indecision of science fiction and fantasy.
Nine: When film is meta it is meta about film, when Broadway inserts music and tries to be meta about film in a film about the constraints of the stage and how film isn't subject to those limitations we get Nine. But the sexy dancing obviously makes this marketable to a male demographic right? Let's not talk about Fellini, either.
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Manufactured Landscapes: capitalist porn.
Eraserhead: Lynch, in black and white.
