on this rewatch, i enjoyed it even more but i was trying to figure out what the metaphor was with these cannibals, their lifestyles and their love. i came upon the personal interpretation that it’s a mix of being an addict, being queer, severely mentally ill and basically any identity that leaves you on the fractures of society. it’s this isolation from any real normal life that creates people like sully (mark rylance), david gordon green and michael stuhlbarg’s characters…
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Her 2013
“i can feel the fear that you carry around and i wish there was something i could do to help you let go of it because if you could, i don’t think you’d feel so alone anymore”
when i was 16 when i first saw this movie as sad but still highly disconnected from my life, i’d never been in relationships, never had much experience with women and i just didn’t know myself as much which is natural but as…
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Something Wild 1986
the title describes this well, lots of genre shifts in this one but it really stays grounded with the main relationship and chemistry taking us through it all. rip ray liotta too, probably his best non-goodfellas performance.
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Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
what an achievement in television, combining elements of slow cinema, soap opera from the original show and the gross out weirdness of lynch in full auteur mode.
much of this series is about moving on from its rejection of nostalgia and cooper’s fate where he has seemed to cause the very thing he tried to prevent through exacting his will in a world that doesn’t need him. he traded everyone he loved, a happy family and a happy ending to fix the one thing he couldn’t quite get right and ends up repeating the cycle.
