Impressions

- Some of this is really good, but I’m not sure it quite came together for me as a whole? Giving it 3* because the parts that were good really were good - the castle scenes absolutely stood out for me.

- When Nicholas Hoult was on screen I was having a good time, I totally bought it, his fear, his possessiveness, his helplessness, great stuff.

- Really good Count - camp and frightening in equal measure

- I…

In the commodity monograph Palm Oil, Max Haiven writes about capitalism as a system of production that doesn’t just create disregard for human life, but actually requires human sacrifice. The success of capitalist economics demands not only that profit is chosen over life at every turn, but that profit is itself built on loss of life - whether through direct killing or degradation of the conditions for human life. Even anti-capitalist analyses will emphasise the violence of supposed rationality, of…