war is not healthy for children and other living things
Mmmmmmmmmmm, ok I guess. Incredibly messy and unfocused, intentionally so. Unfortunately this is more of a mess than messy. There are the smallest moments of clarity and real, palpable anger here, which end up being genuinely compelling, but they're only moments. Ultimately none of it coheres. Plenty of ideas being thrown out here, almost nothing interesting being done with them. Oh well.
America can wipe out anything
Find myself coming back to this often since its release, what a beautiful little movie. The manic approach to discussing issues of personhood and loneliness intercut with deceptively simple documentary footage reflecting on the ghosts we carry, both literally and otherwise. The way the film works its way backwards, ending with a quiet, grand thesis, the conversation about stage fright (which feels like a release not dissimilar to that first real breath one takes after choking, drowning, etc.), all phenomenal.…
