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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Farewell (1983), a Soviet drama about a rural island farming village in Siberia populated mostly by elderly people, who are suddenly forced to abandon their homes to make way for a hydroelectric dam project. Tradition and modernity clash as some of the villagers decide to resist the destruction of their homes. Old people get to rock sometimes, too. Initially, the film was directed by Larisa Shepitko, whose WW2 drama The Ascent (1977) we previously watched; she died in the middle of production, and her husband, Elem Klimov, finished the film; he is best-known as the director of Come and See (1985). This is one of the highest-rated Soviet films on Letterboxd.
After that is The Furious (2025), a mostly-English-language Hong Kong martial-arts action film about a man who will go to any lengths to retrieve his kidnapped daughter. He receives no help from the corrupt police, so he takes matters into his own hands, teaming up with a journalist whose wife has also gone missing. Together, they infiltrate the criminal underworld and punch, kick, and shoot their way through endless waves of bad guys, determined to find their loved ones. Will they succeed? I guess we’ll find out. Dudes are gonna rock. This is by far the best-known and best-regarded work to date of director Kenji Tanagaki; critics are calling it the best action movie of the year, so let’s give it a whirl.
We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:
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Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- Farewell: https://letterboxd.com/film/farewell-1983/
- The Furious: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-furious/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- Farewell: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
- The Furious: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/853879
CWs for Farewell:
- Abuse of elderly people.
- Poverty.
- Natural bodies of water.
- Destruction of nature.
- Desecration of corpses.
- Sad ending.
CWs for The Furious:
- Pedophilia.
- Child abuse.
- Finger mutilation.
- Amputation.
- Broken bones.
- Hand damage.
- Dislocations.
- Slapping of woman.
- Someone is physically restrained.
- Audio gore.
- Spitting.
- Eye mutilation.
- Decapitation.
- Throat mutilation.
- Someone struggles to breathe.
- Flashing lights.
- Death of pregnant person.
- Someone is hit by a car.
- Blood and gore.
- Gun violence.
- Fistfighting.
- Beatings.
- Torture.
- Stabbing.
Links to movies:
- Farewell: https://tankie.tube/w/azJcNEUCorfEMBCaFDUZrA
- The Furious: https://tankie.tube/w/27Du9nSxu1GGAChSVjqQCX
