A flashback wrapped in a flash forward, as God transports Elmer to the year 2000AD, only to have Bugs reminisce about how they first met. Old, decrepit Bugs is amusing, but Baby Bugs is super cute. The funniest bits are Elmer and Bug’s ‘Origin Story’ as toddlers. However, the final Bugs reversal, involving Elmer being buried alive, is an effective piece of dark humour.
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Ashes of Time 1994
Redux
Last Year at Marienbad for the wuxia crowd. Wong Kar-wai’s most abstract work is still deeply romantic, with elusive narrative threads related to literary or mythological sources — imagine a Marvel equivalent with Baron Zemo as Ouyang Feng. In any case, its musings about memory and thwarted dreams are merely an excuse for Kar-war’s extraordinarily tactile cinema. One wonders, though, what Sammo Hung, the fight choreographer, thought about the Redux edit.
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