"Come back, Mom, and give birth to me a second time. Without you, I can never change."
Watercolor memories are all we have left of childhood. The looming reality of adult relationships, dynamics and sexuality seem like an ominous sleight of hand devised to confound and even terrify. Or so it seems to the main character. Age has cast a new light on the situations he floated through as a boy. It's time to fashion a new masquerade for all…
The beauty of death and depression, the warmth of memory’s candle when nothing else can warm you, symmetry as an attempt to bring order to the shattered.
There is nothing more poignant than to be understood, and for a brief moment two outsiders understand each other.
I feel like I know this movie inside and out, and I almost don’t care to read interpretations of the meaning because I feel like I understood the meaning implicitly as the movie took…
Fantasy is a haven for outsiders. And this movie is the greatest fantasy of all; where unusual luck can come to those who are unusually fractured.
Someone who worked on Secretary KNEW. They actually KNEW what it's like. Objects that were meant to comfort you are perverted into tools for self-destruction; you feel ashamed but the exhilaration keeps you hooked. You need that rush or you won't survive.
Lee can't let go of her childish things, because even at her…
I love when modern movies are shot in black and white. It's a very interesting decision here. Chiaroscuro creates the illusion of light. Fittingly, Kathleen finds herself dwindling to nothing, the illusion of a human.
The tendencies that were with us before are with us still. If you feel the hairs stand up on the back of your neck, it's because something is coming to push you over the edge. Not from around a dark corner but from within yourself.…
You have eyes, but you’ll never see her again.
You have arms, but whom will they embrace?
More avant-garde and psychological than other renditions. Almost like a dream- perhaps Julie’s dream, or Netvor’s. Shadow and light are used to great effect in creating an atmosphere of gothic beauty. The scene with Julie in the bed is absolutely stunning, I gasped when I saw it.
Underneath the surface lies authentic torment and suffering in the forms of a voice that haunts…
Someone has plans for you. Your life becomes a cracked mirror for someone else to reflect their suffering on. Your dreams and memories, everyone you love, are all wiped away to make room for something else. Welcome to hell.
Oldboy presents a labyrinth with a minotaur at its spiraling center. Dae-su reclaims his life by bludgeoning his way through the labyrinth, not realizing that he's becoming more entrapped with every step he takes. His ultimate goal at the center will…
