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Twilight 1990
Watched while cooked by Covid at 4 in the morning, which is both acutely fitting for a Eastern European nightmare about murdered children, the flitting mass of an unseen, hungry, lecherous giant, a policeman desperate for justice and answers in the wake of eternity, all lost in the forest, devoured by the fog. I’m too delirious and in pain to give this as incisive a dissection as this black hole of a film deserves, I’ll have to watch it again,…
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The Company of Wolves 1984
“Never trust a priest— they don’t call them Father for nothing.”
Narratively inconsistent and sometimes too story within a story for its own good, but the atmosphere, nasty practical effects, and the striking but all too infrequent use of surrealism elevate it into something more interesting than just another grim fairytale for grownups (tho it absolutely is that). The ending kinda whiffs it on its central metaphor (the same metaphor as every Red Riding Hood story: never trust a man)…
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Dogtooth 2009
The nuclear family is an incestuous cult designed to train and beat you like a dog until you are nothing but the pet of the patriarch and the matriarch. The nuclear family has its own internal language, structures, rituals, games, economy, and politics, designed to isolate you from everything and everyone but itself. The nuclear family will say grace together over the rapes and assaults facilitated between its walls. The nuclear family is as entropic as it is incestuous, doomed to…
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Barber Westchester 2021
My bf stayed up way past their bedtime to watch this with me because they ‘wanted to make sure the little blue fluff of hair was okay’
