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Watched Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. It’s No.48 on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies—10th Anniversary list.
It’s a bit of a slow burn compared to other Hitchcock movies, and I was honestly surprised by the ending.
Watched Only Yesterday (1991). I enjoy these pensive films from Studio Ghibli.
Watched Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.
I thought it was good and deserving of the critical praise it received.
Watched Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity. It’s No.29 on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies—10th Anniversary list.
It was enjoyable noir. I found the story engaging without being difficult to follow nor overly bleak. Not that it was hopeful, just not the gut punch of something like Chinatown.
I’d recommend it to anyone who likes old movies, and I would watch it again.
Sometimes they do something to you, Tommy. They hurt you. And you get mad. And then you get mean. And they hurt you again. And you get meaner, and meaner till you ain’t no boy or no man any more, but just a walking chunk a mean-mad. Did they hurt you like that, Tommy?
Ma Joad on the injustice of prisons, The Grapes of Wrath