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Post by vinnyt on May 15, 2020 17:35:47 GMT
Just watched The Swimmer and I didnt realize how much it inspired Under The Silver Lake which I really liked. It's also similar in character progression to films like Blue Jasmine or even Falling Down in a way. Are there other films of it's kind from before its time?
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Post by pacinoyes on May 15, 2020 17:48:52 GMT
I love The Swimmer and I'd recommend the great Scarlett Street (1945) which has similar elements of myth-making and personal delusion and then truth dawning on the lead character.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 17, 2020 9:21:40 GMT
Another one that I often say would make a good double feature is Seconds (1966) - which is in my top 10 English language of the 60s and is imo an even better movie. Like The Swimmer it shows the darker underside of success and happiness and also like it casts a strong American film male from the 50s (Rock Hudson here) who is drifting towards mid-life crisis. Both movies were crucial in anticipating what was coming in the 70s - in this sort of alienation and creeping malaise of middle age - and they tied into things happening in other mediums too - both are based on books and there's a lot of great stuff in this era of the curdling of the American Dream (The Twilight Zone - many episodes, A Fan's Notes (novel), Revolutionary Road (novel))  |
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Post by pacinoyes on May 17, 2020 13:15:51 GMT
Actually something like The Machinist (2004) fits here too in terms of form with The Swimmer: The denial of the past and a false reality that is then revealed which clears up why the central character thinks or reacts to things that we see before the reveal.  |
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Post by vinnyt on May 19, 2020 14:57:03 GMT
Dang I forgot about The Machinist. I wasn't the biggest fan of it though. Seconds is on the watchlist.
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