it's fascinating to arrive at this after what was a solid decade of NBC Hannibal obsession, and i'm not exaggerating; my old tumblr features Will Graham posts with such tags as "my sweet angel" and "precious lil will please be okay." and i think that show encourages that kind of personal obsession, given how psychological and therapy-focused it is, but in contrast what i love HERE is how comparatively process-driven this is. leans hard on its technical prowess and sense of atmosphere; feels in many ways like a dialogue between the process of filmmaking (seeing) and both killing and sleuthing: the opportunity to become God
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The Green Ray 1986
when the emotionally stunted, can't-sit-still, doesn't-know-what-she-wants-out-of-life-but-insists-fiercely-on-her-independence protagonist revealed she was a capricorn, i just had to laugh; of course she is. this is a brilliant portrait of how our own self-mythologies hold us back. while sure, there are shitty expectations of women in dating scenes, that's clearly not why delphine is held back; she's just stubborn and achingly sad, too stubborn to confront that aching sadness in any true way. we see only what we want to see; if we…
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Women Talking 2022
so absurdly hollow it’s almost laughable. dialogue that sounds more like a poorly written spoken word poem than anything anyone would say ever (other than maybe students at fucking Brown University, which, i’m sorry, these women would not be spouting feminist theory about power in their circumstance and with their level of education). women sure are talking but is a single one of them a real, full-rounded character? what even is there here to latch onto other than rupi kaur-isms? truly the epitome of telling instead of showing. borderline offensive how poorly this does justice to the incredibly sensitive themes and stories at hand.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
if you search "how to be an optimistic nihilist" on youtube, a video of mine is the third result that comes up. i made that video six years ago. it is seven minutes long. i was nineteen.
