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Kelvinnchucks:
I honestly wasn't saying it to shade him. I see he has stopped posting.
We are getting to a point where almost everything online is Ai generated and its annoying coupled with the fact that we have to be careful with Ai information. So when i read his posts I just hiss and skip.

oyaskii:
Ikiru (1952)

"It's our human duty to enjoy life. Wasting it is desecrating God's great gift."

Akira Kurosawa has always been one filmmaker whose filmography I've been meaning to explore, given the sheer influence his filmmaking style has had on generations of filmmakers.

Ikiru, being my first foray, is a deeply moving humanist drama about a man who discovers he has six months to live and begins to question whether he has wasted his entire life stuck in a bureaucratic job. With little time left, he sets out to discover how best to spend his remaining days and whether he can still accomplish something meaningful.

While the story itself might seem clichéd, Kurosawa handles the subject matter with such grace, dread, and tenderness that you immediately grasp the narrative's emotional weight. He doesn't rush to prescribe one ideal way for his protagonist to spend his final days, allowing us to sit with his uncertainty as he struggles to find meaning in a life nearing its end.

Takashi Shimura, as Kanji Watanabe, brings so much life to the entire thing. There's something haunting about his bulging eyes and withdrawn demeanour, the physical manifestation of a man trapped in existential dread, suddenly aware that he might leave this world in a few months the same way he arrived: with nothing to show for it.

There's something deeply unsettling about realising that you can spend your entire life existing without ever truly living. And perhaps that's what makes Ikiru so profoundly moving. It isn't just a film about death; it's about the [i]uncomfortable business[/i]of being alive and figuring out what, if anything, makes it worthwhile...

Top shelf film.

9/10.

potland:
you watched an old film. I've you seen citizen kane? Widely rated the greatest film ever made

WriterNig:
🎥 Slow Horses S01-06 (2022 - 2026) = 7.3/10 ✔️ ❤️

One of the few series that have managed to maintain it's quality over the years.

abduleez1:
Lol.... I welcome firing this dude... Not so much the layoffs tho.

Same dude that was mouthing off some months ago that he'd let go any filmmaker now fighting for a theatrical window. Probably why David Fincher left.


Oyaskii, news on the street is that Greta's upcoming NARNIA is a problematic movie and an incoming flop.
I remember how you said Baumbach her hubby was with Netflix all these years and just jailbreak only for Greta to head there.

Funny thing is that, it's this same dude that would have been the CEO of DC Studios at the time, if not that he rejected the job.
Now the people Mike De Luca and Pamela Abdy that was fired at WB by SkyDance will now be the Heads of Film at Netflix.

Lol, this saga funny die.

samistry:
Abduleez uncle almost kill am

samistry:
Abduleez uncle almost kill am

oyaskii:
Brooo...no serious filmmaker should be yoked with Netflix 😩😩 let alone the Greta Gerwig!... arguably the biggest female film makers around currently.

I can't even blame her...the dire state of Big studios maan... we've just seen a 100 plus year old studio go belly up like it's nothing.

There for Narnia (2027) but bro, if it's mid, it wouldn't be a shock 😔

Achilles100:
The Exorcist: Martyrs

The cast: GOATED

The director: also GOATED

I will there like maddddd.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9E2spkHuK4

abduleez1:
No be music artist this girl be?
Which project she impressed so good she's getting projects everywhere even more than some actors? 👀

See actors she's co-starring with. 😳😳

samistry:
Two years later them still dey try make an actress out of her.

abduleez1:
Lisan al Ghaib!!!!

GloriousGbola:
we need the butlerian jihad more than ever

say no to AI

oyaskii:
Francis Duru mannn

Being a proper "Nollywood Head", for the longest time possible and he was a part of an era of Nollywood, i hold so dear.

The sheer number of our, yester years stars, that have passed on, in the last couple of years mann 😔.

Rest easy King 🕊️😔

abduleez1:
Hmmm..... Oyaskii what says you?

oyaskii:
I watched the OG "Ultimate Power" way way back, terrorised my entire childhood 😩😩, so a return on the big screen would definitely kill.

Of course definitely. It is just Funke Akindele and Toyin Abraham, doing this December blockbuster thingy, thinking that is the only time they would make big box, which is mostly true tho.

But if, the movie is quality enough, nothing stop a Nollywood blockbuster from making big bucks, no matter the time of the year it is released.

Of course, like clockwork, both of them have movies out in December of this year as well,fgss😩...might show up myself 👀

oyaskii:
"Oversabi Aunty" (2025)

I ran the Nollywood gimmick this evening, and duly got burnt fgsss 😭...If i put up a review for this, Toyin Abraham might probably jail me.... literally felt my IQ drop seeing this garbage of a movie mann

Hey, I'd like to support this industry maan, but at some point, i got to say enough is enough, and just cut ties 😔

Nickshrapnel:
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother