Letterboxd — Your life in film

"The first camera in the history of cinema was pointed at a factory, but a century later it can be said that film is hardly drawn to the factory and is even repelled by it. Films about work or workers have not become one of the main genres, and the space in front of the factory has remained on the sidelines. Most narrative films take place in that part of life where work has been left behind. Everything which makes…

Scorsese places himself in dialogue with Jacques Tourneur and Samuel Fuller, self-consciously drawing on the aesthetics of post-war American noir to explore the roll that genre cinema plays in working through collective trauma. Teddy is a man irrevocably damaged by the atrocities he witnessed during the war, but he is expected to remain silent by a society which would prefer to erase all traces of these horrors (and the U.S. government's complicity in them). An awareness of the mass-scale suffering…

It is late last night the dog was speaking of you;
the snipe was speaking of you in her deep marsh.
It is you are the lonely bird through the woods;
and that you may be without a mate until you find me.

You promised me, and you said a lie to me,
that you would be before me where the sheep are flocked;
I gave a whistle and three hundred cries to you,
and I found nothing there but…

“You ever think maybe it’s not worth it?”
“What?”
“I don’t know, anything?”

The faded utopian dreams of the 60s weakly resurfacing in the landscape of Reaganite America, the Firefly family now reduced to an outlier desperately seeking to put into play their perverted version of the counter-cultural lifestyle for as long as they can. The violence of neo-liberalism can only be counteracted by more violence, and so the brutality in this outweighs anything Zombie has put on-screen before. Yet…