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As long as there are people, there will be monsters who abuse power to dominate people. As long as there is power, it will ultimately destroy those who can't control it...and almost none of us are able to truly control it.

I enjoyed Tár, but I think I might have had a better appreciation of and for it if I were a women or, better yet, a lesbian. The political/interpersonal aspects of the movie felt difficult to come to grips with, and I felt ill-equipped to process them as it moved along.

The finale was simultaneously decisive and indecisive, a commentary on how far the mighty and self-absorbed can fall while also not giving the story a feeling of resolution (a particularly American shortcoming- we like things wrapped with a neat, tidy bow).

Nonetheless, I'd pay to watch Cate Blanchett in a condom commercial.

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