Everyone has heard of DUNE these past years, the new masterpiece by Villeneuve based on the renowned novels by Frank Herbert. To summarize the story in a few words, it is a science fiction epic set in a distant future where noble houses vie for control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the universe's most valuable substance : the spice. The story follows Paul Atreides, whose family is entrusted with the stewardship of Arrakis, as he becomes embroiled in a complex struggle involving politics, religion, and the indigenous Fremen people, whose culture and survival are intricately tied to the harsh desert environment (It is almost a space-opera Game of Thrones, if you will). While I enjoyed both movies, I believe they significantly failed to do justice to Arab, North African, and Islamic cultures, which appear almost hidden and purposefully ignored. This erasure , as many critics and journalists have described it, is less pronounced in the novels but greatly accentuat...
ONE-SENTENCE REVIEW : A solid addition to the Mad Max franchise, this installment, while still a violent motor-pocalypse , provides a layered narrative and somewhat complex characters. RATING : ⭐⭐⭐.5/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A very brief "essay" on the intrinsic connection between Janus and cinema WHO IS JANUS ? : ROMAN GOD Janus is the Roman God of all beginnings, gates, transitions, time, choices, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. A mysterious deity, his true nature is still debated to this day. Interpretations concerning the god's fundamental nature either limit it to this general function or emphasize a concrete or particular aspect of it. ETYMOLOGY The name of the god comes form Iānus , meaning in Latin "arched passage, doorway". Cicero, Ovid and Macrobius have also indicated that the name derived from the verb ire ("to go"), which made of Janus the god of motion and transitions. GOD OF MOTION Since movement and change are interconnected, he has a double nature, symbolised in his two-headed image. He also rules the progress of past to future, from one condition to another, from one vision to another, and young people's g...
Loved your review, I agree that Chris did an incredible job for Dementus
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