A shower of narcissism almost from beginning to end. Carax not only recognizes the inherent fundamental creepiness of the Americana musical and its respective numbers but treats it so matter-of-factly that he doesn’t seem to really care about people who come in unprimed with this sentiment beforehand. The comparisons to David Lynch are understandable but a bit off since Lynch generally prefers not to give the entity a proper chance to speak its mind (probably for the better), whereas Carax…
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Marrowbone 2017
Covers a lot of tonal ground at face value, starting with an attempt to sand off the razor-like gothic edge of I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House and resolving itself in something intending to resemble a maximalist thriller mode smashing together post-Flanagan rapid fire nonlinear editing and post-Nolan and Tarantino narrative convolution (admittedly more comparable with Tarantino’s pseudo-performative obscurantism than Nolan’s occasional cheeky embrace of aimlessness). I say “intending to resemble” because what is actually is…
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The Dark Knight Rises 2012
There is a scene in this movie where a character has their broken back fixed by having someone else punch their spine back into their body and hang them from a rope overnight until it’s all fixed, leaving no long-term effects and even making them stronger.
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