Thankful to have both Schrader and Shyamalan making films that few would dare to direct like they do.
Not even in relation to how fixated they are in developing a style or taking the fundaments of their masters to a digital era, but mostly in relation of trying their most to alienate the audience via their familiarity with the formers' praised formalism (Old with Romero and Hitchcock, here with Bresson) and then destroying any semblance of it through an uncanny…
“An interesting thing happened back in the 80's when they were making the 'Friday the 13th' films. They made a conscious creative decision not to differentiate between the characters. They wanted the audience to see each of the characters in the movie as a generic victim. That way they could be ahead of them, and talk back to the screen -- 'Don't go in that door, you dummy!' and so on. They already realized that the thing to do was…
I find the romantic ideal of the poor being the more “close to Earth” than all of us peasants and their struggle being just part of their spiritual journey to self enlightenment more repulsive with each new entry of these indie darlings in the wave of vague anti capitalist narratives that do everything in their power to make you believe that a company like Amazon actually care about its workers.
But what did you expect from someone who takes the…
