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Film Review - Singing in the Rain

The film is acknowledging its massive influence and the debt that Chezelle owes to that film. It's also literally an image of many watching his life flash before his eyes. So when he watches the movie, he feels this profound nostalgia and melancholy about who he was and what he experienced firsthand. And then you get this kind of psychotronic experience where you're like, I don't know if it's in Manny's head or if it is an externalization of Damien Chezelle's feelings about what cinema has meant to him. But like you said, now like dozens of films start flashing before our eyes. We see like 50s American cinema. We see the French new way of

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