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At face value LA MOUSTACHE appears to be an exercise in far-fetched, existential conceit.
It's a truly artistic expression in film that is metaphysical, existential, and flat out brilliant.
To start, the young boy in "Baxter" gives a highly credible, palpably evil performance as the young, Nazi-obsessed boy who comes to own this very strange pitbull suffering from existential dilemmas.
When I rented this flick - despite my prudent dislike - I thought I was going to be served a touchy-feely picture sporting the message that math is not redeeming answer to life but love is, or such Hippy New Age existential hogwash.
It takes the archetypal "teens in trouble" formula but then twists the familiar plot into a powerful and unsettling existential psycho-horror story.
Read the book some time ago and after watching the movie felt much the same sort of existential exhilaration - if there is such a thing.
Araki's films say, we've created such irreversible urban decay that we've reached the existential state in which nothing we do could make it worse and so let's embrace pointless violence.
From then, we primarily follow Enid (Thora Birch), who finds herself in an existential phase of her life, having escaped from her hated experience, but finding herself in a meaningless and pointless world, with little direction of her own.
Not as classic a film as the existential "Blade Runner" but worthwhile nevertheless.
Students, whose existential angst and elevated notions of 'beauty' find expression in My Bloody Valentine records?
The film also manages to convey a significant existential quality to the main characters that is very nuanced and requires contemplation.
The subjects of existential angst and "faith" or lack thereof are treated with a light touch in combination with masterful patience.
After disposing of the fact that this film was significantly under budgeted, and, in spots, more than a bit overacted, what remains is a realistically cold and existential account of the first day of the American Revolution.
Overall I say this movie was a schizophrenic laughingstock seething with the brand of random existential comedy that would be used much later in movies in more recent teen escapades like American Pie.
When it was all over, I didn't find it overly existential or pretentious or confusing or boring in the slightest.
The uniquely dangerous combination of a nuclear Iran, which seeks to inspire the Shia in the Gulf states to rise up against their Sunni masters, coupled with Ahmedinejad’s millenarian mysticism, poses an existential threat to Israel, which Ahmadinejad has threatened to “wipe off the map.”
As a complex issue is boiled down to a binary choice, that choice becomes existential – a potential source of deep long-term divisions.
Now, the EU is at the center of domestic political debates, which increasingly include existential questions about the survival of the eurozone and the entire European project.
The conflict phase of codependency frames it as a zero-sum battle: US allegations of Chinese intellectual property theft are portrayed by the Trump administration as nothing less than an existential threat to America’s economic future.
Jews, alleged by the Nazis to pose an existential threat to Germany, could be persecuted – and later murdered en masse – with total impunity.
Israel’s nuclear deterrence is its ultimate defense against an existential threat.
But now it has to deal with two sources of existential crisis: Greece and Ukraine.
Instead, it was meant to take the existential threat of Iran’s nuclear program off the table long enough to build a foundation for more constructive engagement that could bring progress on other fronts.
It is now mired in an existential crisis more profound than at any point since 1945.
In the United States, white people increasingly view the prospect that they will become a minority – a milestone expected to be reached in 2045 – as an existential threat, and often act as if they are a disadvantaged group.
That may sound like a resounding success: the mere announcement of the OMT scheme was enough to end the monetary union’s existential crisis.
Moreover, science is humanity’s best hope for addressing such existential threats as climate change, emerging pathogens, extra-terrestrial bolides, and a burgeoning population.
In fact, Netanyahu has fundamentally misunderstood the Iran challenge: It is not an existential threat, but part of a broader struggle for regional mastery.
For governments, innovation is an existential question.
To ignore this reality is to gamble with the existential future of many island countries, not to mention the prosperity of the global economy.
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