Pacifiction

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Cindy A @CindyK Jun 26, 2024 Really a slow burn and hypnotic film about the aftermath of colonialism. Honestly I watched it as a deadpan farce about the French mind. Each scene offers a separate facet of the main character's absurd delight in making pronouncements about what he calls "our" island while the residents give him polite smiles. The lush backdrop and the indigenous people--how did they film this to look so dreamlike?--just keeps asserting their immense presence that then brings the characters to scale. Its splendid colors and purity by turns made the occupiers drunk with romanticism, relieve their guilt by allowing them to claim it as part theirs, and comically mocks the overactive and polarizing nature of their European mindset as human greed for power and paranoia, the buffoons stuck amidst the people who have been there an exponentially longer time. If you thought it was going to be an action movie and dislike slow burn movies, you won't like it...though why be mad it's not French fries when it's a lake of de la puree? See more Alec B @Alec97 Mar 4, 2024 A John Le Carre thriller drained of urgency and clarity, which actually works better than you might think. The languid pace is genuinely hypnotic. See more Mathew T @RT15902818 Aug 8, 2023 This movie is terrible. The plot is weak, script contrived, the acting unbelievable. And the scenes are endless and pointless; dull conversation, slow, going nowhere fast. Someone must have thought they were making art. Fail. See more David B @Dobishop May 18, 2023 Grass growing for 2-1/2 hours would have been more exciting. You're welcome. See more Read all reviews

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