Had the opportunity to talk to Khalik about his work and his process last night.
https://reecebeckett2002.medium.com/an-interview-with-khalik-allah-c729ff49fdb5
Had the opportunity to talk to Khalik about his work and his process last night.
https://reecebeckett2002.medium.com/an-interview-with-khalik-allah-c729ff49fdb5
Different than what I was expecting because of its willingness to lean into the bitter side of bittersweetness and be genuinely melancholic at times. Martin Short steals every scene he’s in, perfect comedic performance!
The Unforgiven of the gangster epic. God, that final thirty minutes is a gutpunch that one can’t prepare for. A movie bound to haunt and linger. I might come back around to writing more on this, but for now I’m just a little knocked around and speechless. De Niro and Pesci give career best performances, and Scorsese makes his greatest since The Age Of Innocence... if not ever. An extended held breath of a movie, and the exhale is sharper…
Ironically, for a film that claims to want to shine a light on how the sexualisation Marilyn experienced ultimately ruined her life completely and left her a drug addicted, alcohol abusing shadow of who she once was, this quickly goes from an okay tribute romantic-drama-comedy into something that sexualises Monroe further, mythicises Monroe (despite the fact that it touches on how her fame and the expectations of those around her hurt her so severely and so frequently) and further exploits…