Tagged: mood: paranoid

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Non-Stop (2014)

An air marshal with a bad reputation must stop a terrorist in a transatlantic flight who is threatening to kill passengers unless he gets $150M USD transferred into his offshore account. Is it a passenger, a crew member, one of the pilots?

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Requiem for a Dream

After quite some time, I managed to revisit Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, and it’s still holding strong for me.

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Hannibal – Season 1

Hannibal overturns expectations of crime procedurals and Lecter incarnations by focusing on the first-hand and secondhand effects of murder on the mind.

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Maniac (2012)

Franck Khalfoun mixes the sleekness of modern French cinema with the good old-fashioned low budget horror of the eighties.

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Helter Skelter (Japanese Film)

Helter Skelter follows a top idol star who undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries on different parts of her body to maintain the image she’s built herself as an icon of beauty, until the result of such processes begins taking a toll on her.

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Concubine, The (Korean Film)

Though the poster may mislead, The Concubine deals little with love, instead entangling itself with sacrifice, suspicion, backstabbing and revenge set in the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897) in a way that you’re never likely to see on television unless HBO is planning a telenovela.

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Taiyo Matsumoto – Black & White

There are some manga that manage to push the understanding of human nature to the very edges of its periphery. Taiyō Matsumoto’s Black & White cracks open your psyche and forces you to put your morals into hard focus.