A fairytale in the way that Hanya Yanagihara calls A Little Life a fairytale: extreme success and extremely low lows. There’s a lot to like about it. In another universe this movie is insanely campy—I appreciated that it wasn’t! Though they treat music and songwriting like it’s magic, I appreciate the drudgery of touring/industry and scenes in transient places like supermarkets and gas stations and diners.

fun! nice use of the environment! nothing more than that!

i mean this with no irony at all: fucking SICK welding montage

The stillness and symmetry of this movie makes you notice the breeze, or earrings dangling, or a distant blinking light and damn it it shook me to the core.