The 4K restoration is incredible. So good seeing this movie in theaters since the when I first saw it back when it came out. This movie is built for theatres.
Check my other reviews for my thoughts on the film overall.
The 4K restoration is incredible. So good seeing this movie in theaters since the when I first saw it back when it came out. This movie is built for theatres.
Check my other reviews for my thoughts on the film overall.
I really hate to say that for me this film just didn’t work in the end. Is it awful? No. But it’s too much an idea picture and it’s lost what I always loved about Cronenberg, experience. I never got in the innards cause he was so busy yapping at me. The production design just never felt connected to anything organic, which is ironic cause that’s what this movie is about essentially, the evolution of the organic world. I just didn’t buy it all. I’ll give it a go some time in the future but it’s just not a good work, sadly.
Nah bruh, this ain’t it.
This cinematic trend to beautify Black struggle and minimize it narratively to some struggle of “self” rather than a real analysis of how Blackness always gets the short end of the stick by design is a horrible trend. This film attempted to use cinematic tricks and visual aesthetics to cover up for the fact it has nothing real to say about what has happened to Black people in gentrification despite its grandiose title. It hides…
Let me get this out the way, this doc is absolutely awful. It’s the equivalent of “Say no to drugs” campaign infomercials they had in the ’80s. Alarmist, fear-mongering (as it criticizes fear-mongering) and is built to be a cheap confessional for a bunch of White people who got rich off of social media and are now promoting themselves as ethical tech folks cause suddenly they see the light. Rubbish. I don’t see them giving their fortunes back cause they…