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nateisdreaming 's review for:
They Live
by Jonathan Lethem
An awesome reading (slash analysis) of one of my favorite genre and/or cult films. Haven't seen this movie in about a year, but really rank the film high up there and this book brought back many good memories. Also one of the best overt attacks on the establishment I've ever seen in cinema; and a film that effortlessly and recklessly switches tones and genres every few minutes.
The movie: 5 stars. The book: 4 stars. The smartest thing about the book: it's use of quotations from both literature and literary criticism to accentuate the themes Lethem reads in this film.
For fun, a list of other favorite cult-genre films (though none of these satisfy my political angst in the same way, they are all pretty amazing): True Stories, Repo Man, Kiss Me Deadly, Point Break, Zero Effect, Schizopolis, Brazil, Lost Highway if it counts. :)
The movie: 5 stars. The book: 4 stars. The smartest thing about the book: it's use of quotations from both literature and literary criticism to accentuate the themes Lethem reads in this film.
For fun, a list of other favorite cult-genre films (though none of these satisfy my political angst in the same way, they are all pretty amazing): True Stories, Repo Man, Kiss Me Deadly, Point Break, Zero Effect, Schizopolis, Brazil, Lost Highway if it counts. :)