And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make
A film that emulates our hyper-online, cacophonous, and draining world with disturbing and absurdist perfection. Like reality, it bludgeons us into near numbness with ceaseless movement and stunning action choreography (dildo nunchucks ftw). Nothing matters—a phrase as liberating as it is dangerous. Humans have a limit. We can only care about so much. Because of the internet, it is now theoretically possible to pay attention…
Youth remembered through rose colored glasses, except PTAs lenses are cracked, allowing the dark, deeply vile nature of reality to slip through and pollute his mid-70s dreamscape — a dreamscape that never existed. Any adolescence examined ad nauseam reveals unquestionably fucked up experiences and circumstances, even ones not perceived as such in the moment. But such revelations don’t take away their importance. Only we can remember how we felt in those long gone moments of our lives, when the collapse…
At every turn in Schindler’s List, Spielberg focuses your eyes on people's faces. Waves upon waves of faces. Although the story of Oskar Schindler is a fraction of the full portrait of evil that was the Holocaust, it is the endless cascading of faces, both young and old that reminds us of the gargantuan scale of the genocide. To call Schindler’s List emotionally overwhelming would be an incredible understatement. The casual presentation of carnage amidst the ghettos and concentration camps…
Spielberg’s style at its most maximalist. Every shot sells the scale and hopelessness of Cruise and co.’s situation. Constant 360 pans, oner chase sequences, and shocking violence whir together to form a true terror cocktail and one of Spielberg’s most mesmerizing movies. With maybe 10 minutes of set up, a solid 100 minutes of this film is spent screaming, running, and repeating. But with each new car, boat, town, house and basement, Spielberg uses masterful blocking to convey power dynamics,…
James Acaster… sweetie… what did James Corden do to you to rope you into this entirely meritless festering pile of shit ??
