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[Movie] A Girl Missing (2019)

Original title: よこがお, ‘Side Profile’
Directed by: Koji Fukada
Cast: Mariko Tsutsui, Mikako Ichikawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Miyu Ogawa

[Movie] The Departed (2006)

Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga
Based on Infernal Affairs (Movie) by Alan Mak, Felix Chong

[Movie] Catch-22 (1970)

Directed by: Mike Nichols
Cast: Alan Arkin
Based on Catch-22 (novel) by Joseph Heller

[Movie] Night and the City (1950)

Directed by: Jules Dassin
Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney
Based on Night and the City (novel) by Gerald Kersh

Harry. Harry. You could have been anything. Anything. You had brains… ambition. You worked harder than any 10 men. But the wrong things. Always the wrong things…
by Mary Bristol in the movie

[Movie] The Dead (1987)

Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Cathleen Delany, Helena Carroll
Based on: The Dead (Dubliners), by James Joyce

[Movie] Seconds (1966)

Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph
Based on: Seconds, a novel by David Ely

[Movie] El Dorado (1966)

Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt
Based on: The Stars in Their Courses (novel) by Harry Brown

El Dorado is the late-period Western movie by Howard Hawks. The movie might not be one of the best ones by the director, but the reception has been positive for a long time.

What can be the best way for a second-hand experience of the world – real or even imaginative? Human beings are symbolic beings; we understand ourselves, our world, and their relationships through symbols, which opens the unimaginably broad possibilities of what we can experience and contemplate.

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