Interesting case study, because if every major player involved was replaced by someone even 10% less famous this would be 3.5 at best.
That is to say, what's moving here isn't the struggled and frankly fucking clumsy stirring of thought about hand-me-downs like the nature of reality and the latent potential of the human soul (there's a reason this didn't catch on like The Matrix--- the delayed reveal structure, as a delivery system for these philosophy 101 memes, is a…
Bored, for sure, but maybe I'm just bored of the thematics? Between Ghost Story and Meyerowitz last year, I guess I got a little worn out on filmmakers broadcasting "we displace unrelated emotion into other people and material objects" like it was a novel observation.
The knowledge that this one's ten years older gave it a little good will, and it's nice to keep discovering Jeremie Renier performances (kinda just dig the way that guy looks, which is fucking weird…
84/100
Showed this to my father. He was bored by it. I explained to him that the fact that he loves me enough to watch any film I want him to is what the film is basically about. He said "No Julian, it's about lesbian lepidopterists."
It's still a masterpiece, Dad.
