Alex Garland on his movie: “I want to make a film about journalists where journalists are the heroes.”

Alex Garland’s movie: *what if every journalist you meet is devoid of character detail, morally disengaged, and just kind of an awful person*

I want to preface this review by saying I liked this film in chunks, particularly ones that occurred in the first half. Overall, however, I would say this was an engaging film in the sense that the anticipatory thought…

The only film that understands, expresses, and effectively sells an audience on violence as an objectively effectual tool of self-defense for the oppressed against the oppressor—its casualties not as a contradiction of humanity but as its inevitable byproduct when placed under threat. The faces, the bodies, the voices of humanity don’t die, they multiply, and if seen and heard long enough, and the act of upholding the occupation is rendered more inconvenient than allowing it to fall, the dance of…

“I feel nothing.”

🚨The Russo Brothers have officially infiltrated A24 🚨
Was expecting this to sort of be A24’s No Way Home, but was not expecting this to also be A24’s Free Guy, Deadpool, and The Lego Movie.
I feel like talking way too much shit against this movie, but this movie already made me feel like shit enough to not want to spend anymore time writing about it or expelling that onto others who’ll genuinely connect with this thing.…