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Halloween II 2009
i love you mommy
one of the most viscerally upsetting films i’ve ever seen. detached, angry, destructive, violent, grief stricken and painful. zombie builds upon everything he added to the original film, and is able to explore the kind of damage that the mental health system and the true crime industrial complex do to the world around us. we accept those we deem appropriate for polite society and institutionalize those that we fucked up too badly, never attacking anything that…
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We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021
hard to put into words my feelings on this one. really hit a place buried deep within me, brought out those feelings of internet forums and adolescent social media usage. an overwhelming sense of vague unease about who you are, trying to figure yourself out through other’s experiences, never feeling totally yrself. not at all what i expected and all the better for it. haunting, messy, and beautiful.
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Halloween II 2009
never realized until this fourth watch that zombie doesn’t drop the iconic halloween theme until halfway through the end credits, really illustrates what a departure this is from every other halloween film. still manages to just feel unrelenting though, grief and trauma oozing from an open wound, unclear as to whether or not the pain and suffering of your past will ever end, or if you will finally succumb to the slow march of death.
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Halloween 2007
even as he introduces character after character who just represents the nadir of humanity, indulging in all manner of disgusting actions and attitudes, zombie draws a connection between all of them and the viewer through grotesque violence. pain and death is the ultimate empathetic identifier, when we see people writhing and screaming in agony it can be nauseating because we can see ourselves within it, as bones crack and blood pours we remember our own moments of hurt and feel…
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TÁR 2022
slow to an almost confrontational degree, todd field's tár allows its scenes to breathe so well that you can't help but be taken by the rhythms of the film. lydia constantly waking up, going on runs, going to the gym, slight changes each time reflecting her mental state and the states of her life as it gradually spirals further and further into oblivion. much has been made about this film's thematic link to cancel culture and #metoo but for me…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
didn't really hit me. while i appreciated a lot of the technical prowess on display within the film it just never really came together. i had heard the wachowskis influence was felt hard in this film and while i do see the sense8/cloud atlas vibes it does really feel more like the daniels were reading marvel comics and watching rick and morty while the wachowskis were reading william gibson and watching ghost in the shell. obviously this is a fairly…
