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so much weaker than blue, like so much weaker. the high point honestly was during their divorce where Julie from blue steps into the courtroom and is promptly kicked out.
I think it could have been so much better if Karol wasn't so pathetic and it was more explicit that he was exacting a revenge plot, and maybe if Dominique had actually gotten a bit more characterisation. it totally failed to get me on either of their side because it portrays Dominique as a cold hearted bitch, and Karol as utterly useless and pathetic.
I look forward to watching red. I might rewatch this someday but I doubt it'll have the value on a rewatch I expect blue will have
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it's a very, very effective satire of corporate America and just how utterly monstrously mercenary it is, how is destroys the humanity of the people therein, and how it will exploit everything it can for profit.
it just. doesn't hit me that hard though. like not that it isn't good, I think it's really good. it just strikes me that like. maybe this would have hit me harder a couple years ago.
if nothing else I'm deeply impressed with just how prophetic Lumet is with this film.
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really made me smile :) not all queer art has to be grand and like traditional, or virtuoso. sometimes queer art can be kinda shitty but be filled with authenticity and love and this is :)
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I think I'll appreciate this more on a rewatch. so so wonderful though, so filled with heart and love and romance!!! and like, not romanance necessarily in the love sense but the grand sense !! really wonderful, I think the editing could have let the film breathe a little more at points but maybe I'm just wanting this to be pride and prejudice levels of patient idk
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I don't know why exactly but I just started crying when the movie finished. I still am. there's such heart to this. there's such love for a woman that maybe doesn't make all the right choices in life, maybe worries about the wrong things, is terrified of commitment to the detriment of her love life. maybe that love is for me because I relate to Julie in a lot of ways. sure I'm 24 I've a half a decade to go until I'm 30 but I feel the same feelings, of wanting it all and feeling stuck and terrified you're making all the wrong choices and doing all the wrong things, feeling like you've gone nowhere and done nothing. maybe Julie and I are the worst people in the world but maybe we're not. maybe we're just people doing our best to navigate a scary complex world of adulthood and trying to figure out who you wanna be, and sometimes we fuck up and sometimes we hurt people. and that's okay.
I dunno. it just really, really touched me
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honestly one of the most spiritually emotionally moving films I think I've ever seen. I don't know if I've ever seen grief so wholly portrayed in any performance. it's visually so beautiful and the use of music is so fucking perfect.
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holy shit that's Natasha Lyonne????????
but really, wacky, fun, silly, actually like, shockingly empathetic and ive of queers for a movie from 1999. why can't we make em like this anymore????
very, very happy that the lesbians win in the end :)
tysm Summer for showing me this :)
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honestly just as good on the rewatch
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this really is a film that feels like. oddly personal to me. it feels like a film that very well could have been about me, my dad, and my uncle, minus (spoiler but you know what I mean if you've seen it).
I'm not sure how else to put it. I'm not sure of my deeper thoughts, but this really touched me. really really did.
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I think it is very seriously to Sergio Leone's credit that this film does not feel like three hours. also successfully made me like three like, two total bastards (Tuco and Blondie) which Scorsese failes to do. I enjoy the complexity of their characters, the tenderness and kindness of Blondie. he's a stone butch you cannot convince me otherwise
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truly one of the best movies out there. one of my all time favourites :)
got to see it in cinema and truly it's the best way to see it!!!! so glad to have shared this with a dear friend (hi mha!)
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as a like, recently back to the church catholic girly this is like. remarkably emotionally affecting.
as a film phenomenal. intellectually I know that the twist at the end is exploitative but it's strangely cathartic to me. yes the theme of institutional reform is bad n grim but also as a catholic I sort of like. necessarily must believe in it to reconcile aspects of my faith
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objectively not a 5 but I got to see it in cinema which is a very very special thing to me :)
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I had a really good time with this tbh! I look forward to watching escape from Los Angeles sometime
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I think you should go into this knowing as little as possible but know there's a good bit of gore and blood. fuckin phenomenal tho. gains points with me for the inclusion of rocky road to dublin in a Hollywood film
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massively outperformed my expectations and I had such a wonderful time with it..if I could give it 10 stars I would
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I can understand why people were insane about this. all of you would enjoy other sports movies
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insulting, bloated, tasteless
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fantastic, feels almost like a documentary. this has honest to goodness re-radicalised me in a more feminist-marxist way. a very "kill the right-deviationist in your head" kinda movie. i don't have an in-depth political analysis rn just drop what you're doing and watch it now
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gorgeously shot and fantastically acted. horrifically, I see more of myself in Charlotte than I would like. Eva is right, she is a victim of a deeply insecure, cruel woman. nonetheless.
thank you mha my dear for bringing me to see this :)
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saoirse ronan is so good in this. i fear that in no small part rona represents the ghost of saoirse future, yknow. that this is a version of me that could exist which is in some ways terrifying, as someone with addictive tendencies. alcoholism is something i've fought with myself to avoid for a long time. i could, arguably, be considered one which is able to control her urges, if only because i never, ever, keep my own alcohol in the house. but it's not easy.
the search for happiness, for contentment is one that really strikes with me too. i did once think about being a firewatcher in like caliornia or the pacific northwest of the usa for a while, i thought maybe the isolation would be good for me, and then i kinda talked myself down from it but i'm back thinking about it again. finding oneself is hard.
i have a lot of feelings that need unpacking. absolutely fantastic film
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genuinely one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, Peter Capaldi in this is so fucking good. I hope someday to be as creative in my ability to insult people as he is
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astoundingly beautiful. the acting is heartbreaking yet so human, the actors disappear into their characters. rarely do you see two actors look at each other and express the desire and love and tenderness the characters feel for one another.
I adore the cinematography too, the use of colour, the pacing and tone of the film, the aspects of loneliness. fantastic
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yeah idk it was pretty good, the writing is good but idk man I just never really connected with any of them aside from Larry and even then man why are all these motherfuckers dropping racial slurs. it loses points for that
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fantastic tbh. in spite of the setting a wonderfully tender, warm film, filled with comion and love, yet deeply sad
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Shakespearean drama. groundbreaking cinematography. oscar-worthy performances..Tommy Wiseau is a genius among men
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watched w my dear friend mha I hope they enjoyed. very honestly one of my favourite movies ever made
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I have so much love for this film tysm Vera Drew for this movie and thank you everyone else that put their love and ion into this film. got to see this on the big screen in Dublin tonight with a dear friend and surrounded by other trans people. a special night. tysm James and TITE for putting on the showing.
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yeah idk I just like this film a lot see my first review
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I love s sm. i relate to her in a lot of ways, feeling competitive towards your friends, feeling listless at times, feeling like a failure. maybe I'm reading that into her. maybe I'm projecting my own faildaughter insecurities onto her. but I really love this film. it feels almost like a coming of age film for women in their mid-to-late-twenties who have been unsure of their direction in life and it finally kinda crystallises.
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I have never felt so stressed in my life.
long live faildaughters who are shitty girlfriends and kinda mean and react to a break up with sardonic apathy. that is to say, me.
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fantastic!! there was sort of no point in this film that I thought I was gonna start like. actually properly crying but "I've got you" really just sent me into floods
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legitimately just think it's kinda lazy. it feels like they came up with the hallucinations and the Mandrax guy as a means of telling the story and just didn't commit to it. so many of the scenes are so overly long and indulgent (thank you Mha for expressing it this way you're right). the colour grading just looks kinda bad and like, I don't think it serves the film. this film could legitimately have been 90-100 mins and it'd be better. it's not often I describe movies as frustrating but this one frustrates me. there's a great movie in here but it's just kinda..meh.
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idk what to tell you man it's a perfect movie
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I'm not sure how I feel. drips with vibes. I love the sets. the horror is affecting. the message is as blunt as a hammer but just as impactful.
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truly I don't know what the themes were but this had me like hooked front to back
no ykno on reflection maybe this is about how being a wife guy will get your wife killed by an unfathomable evil. I dunno if I can get behind that message
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I watched this a while ago it's a retroactive review but top shit I love anything that documents dykes from the past
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those guys were some pretty shit guys huh
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this is so gorgeous visually. I'm going to study the shot composition in this film to improve my photography
Emily's sort of, arc? I suppose, journey maybe, in this film to grow closer to the native American man, who over the course of the film goes from absolutely terrified of him, to seeing him as less the other and more a man, to finally seeing him as an equal and he her as such, it's wonderful
this is such a Vibes film. it's dripping with it. I wanna watch more of Reichardt's work now
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absolutely fantastic honestly, I had so much fun with this it's so sincere and whimsical and the writing is so tight. no opportunity for a joke is missed, and it rewards the detail-minded watcher. if you can see it in the cinema, absolutely do
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this is at once a film that is deeply moving bit also a film that is kinda difficult to grasp? it feels like trying to hold on to a fish that's still live and wriggling, it wants desperately to get away and is harder to hold onto the tighter you grip
the themes of loneliness, of desperation for connection, for love, intimacy, are strong. I feel like there are aspects of grappling with self acceptance, with having so little self confidence that you feel unpersoned. "I'm not queer, I'm disembodied," being this like, ission of like, distancing oneself from something you can't accept?
I genuinely don't know. I can go watch this again on my mubi go and if I have time I will. I haven't quite digested it.
feeling very "it makes no damn sense! compels me though" about it
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NGL that was a lot of fun! schloky, gory and silly, didn't take itself too seriously. main character is a podcaster though beware
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I loved this sm. so wonderfully tender and empathetic yet absolutely hilarious
Sasha my autistic dear I love you SM
easy 4* but like the extra half for the final scene being so wonderfully tender
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I mean. it's a classic. a masterpiece. the scene where they sing la Marseillaise is wonderful. fantastic film
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okay look I'm giving this a 5 because I love this movie not because it's a masterpiece. it's like a solid 3.5* if we're being honest but I do love this as a like. fun lil romp of a film
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honestly a brilliant film. really said and frankly Inna lot of ways horrifying to watch the way the cops and national guard are so bloodthirsty. Stallone's performance is so goddamn good
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I think the first time I saw this movie was in school, i was probably like 15 at the oldest. I don't think I appreciated the mastery of this
for today's sensibilities I think it's a bit overly sentimental, especially with how serious it is, I think it should just end when Henry Fonda leaves the room. otherwise, no notes.
actually, two notes:
1) after we enter the courtroom, I think we should have no music. there's no need for it I think. whenever the camera went close up on Henry Fonda and there was a lil musical sting, it actually took me out of the drama
2) end the movie when Henry Fonda leaves the room. the story is over, the jury has come to a not guilty verdict, the drama has been resolved. there's no need for the ending bit with the old man and Henry Fonda on the steps of the courthouse.
it's good! quite good in fact. I think Abigail and Morgana do fine work in this, Morgana being the standout with a wonderfully restrained performance. I think the writing is quite good, I enjoy the interplay of the characters. I would suggest to go watch it. but it won't be mindblowing. I enjoyed the use of the lighting but that's about the only thing I loved from the production side (tho ofc makeup and costume is good too)
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I enjoyed it, all the songs go hard. I feel like the obvious reading is that Hedwig is either straightforwardly a trans woman or like. gender fuckery in some way. I think, honestly, I'm really glad that this portrayal of someone that's actually kinda shitty exists.
i adore Yitzhak. I would do unspeakable things for him/her/them. part of my reads him as trans man, part of me reads her as egg, part of me reads them as a masc trans dyke. idk how to feel.
I need to rewstch soon I think.
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yeah this is still one of my favourite movies of all time. I cannot sing it's praises enough
I figured out I was trans almost a decade ago. we're coming up on a decade pretty soon I think. it was November of 2014, because I turned 14 that year. I because that's when I was able to the local lgbt youth group. specifically the trans youth group.
I'm 23 now going 24 this year.
I relate more to Maddy than maybe I ought to, given that I came out at 13 but really, if we're being honest, I'm only properly transitioning now as an adult. I don't know if I relate to the presentation of transition in this movie as dying and being born again a new person. coming out and slowly over the course of a decade just floating through a puberty you didn't want to experience only to really take the reigns as an adult doesn't exactly map onto that. but nonetheless, I am Maddy in some ways.
there is a tragedy and a hopefulness to this movie. there is still time, yet there is the existential horror of waiting what feels like too long. that the sheer inertia of life makes becoming your true and real self impossible. it doesn't. There Is Still Time.
there is the flip side of this. that my transition has taken basically a decade to get into high gear has necessitated it's fair share of repression. in some ways I have scrubbed off a pink opaque tattoo, shoved Maddy over and run away, begged to be grounded. I have at once flirted with feminity and womanhood and also shunned it. I'm 23 now and I mean, my gender has been pretty set as woman(?) for the past decade and now it's evolving a little past that. I do on one hand feel that Maddy is ostensibly a trans man, but I also intensely relate to her has someone who like? transitions from woman to butch? if that makes sense. maybe that's just me.
watch this movie again and again. it becomes more poignant on a rewatch. this movie lives in my head rent free. Jane schoenrbrun if you're reading this please if there is anything I can do on your next project please I'll do it. I have no experience working on films n I'll do it for free.
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