at 56 years old Christopher McQuarrie is testing the limits of how young you can be as a director before you start going Late Style. these movies have been trending in that direction for a while but i like how this entire thing is some sort of weird shonen anime hype up of Ethan Hunt as the world’s most important man who is better than everybody at everything. when it’s on it’s on (sub and plane sequences obviously) but this…

the horror inherent to knowing who you are and being too scared to truly let yourself come into it, the terror of spending every day wondering if it’s too late for you, if you’ve wasted every waking day deceiving yourself. there’s a certain sort of neurodivergent obsession (with works of art you gravitate to early on in youth) portrayed here to such pitch perfection, the awkwardness of trying to relay that ion to other people, trying to make yourself understand…