To the Boy Who Fell in Love with The Matrix at 14
Who saw, in those opening minutes,
Trinity leap an impossible distance
And wanted to fly
Who did not make the first jump
But kept leaping regardless
Because staying tethered
To the building he was stranded on
Was far more agony
Than falling to the ground
Time and time again
Who, despite feeling incapable
Of ever finding another
Who would love him,
Genuinely,
Unconditionally,
Entirely for who you are,…
After 3 years of work, my video essay on 20th Century Women is here!
This essay tackles the film's narrative structure and presentation, examines the film as a visual essay against the history and development of that term, and looks at its empathetic resonance through a transgender lens.
I'm really really proud of it.
(Special thanks to everyone who inspired me and helped me grow to become the person I am now... I couldn't have articulated what this movie means…
(director's cut)
The most any contemporary crime film has nailed the particulars of what drives this current technological era of crime, and how it seeps into the lives of those entangled in it. It's wild how well Hemsworth works in this in a way I've never seen another director take advantage of, leveraging his ability to play to a very ordinary charisma that makes him feel genuinely human without resorting to big artificial gestures, and that makes his romance with…
Should've known that William "Cruising" Friedkin would make this "straight" movie as gay as he possibly could. Absolute barn-burner climax... that little brief freeze-frame flash shot on the gunfire... DUUUUUUDEEEE.
Spencer Breslin thought about 9/11 every day for a year
"The first sound to pierce the night is a father slamming a door. He’s just found his son Kevin (Lucas Paul) injured, crying, having fallen down a flight of stairs in the night. A daughter, Kaylee (Dali Rose Tetreault), covertly watching cartoons in her bedroom, reflexively turns the television off when she hears her father’s footsteps approach soon after. The specifics of Kevin and Kaylee’s home life are rarely made more concrete than this, but in moments like these, director…
