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Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Goofy. Risky. Funny. What a cool and creative film.

Completely incoherent, nonsensical plot. Bad guys motive is totally unclear, why are they in such a rush to murder all these children, never really explained.

Some of the jokes at the beginning do actually land.

The word "normie" is used unironically.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

🤔

Very beautiful,
The pretense of love.
Blissful melancholy

I don't usually write actual reviews but this movie made me really feel things so I'm going to try and do something proper.

I think this film is really excellent. The acting is great (Guy Pierce is particularly good), the score is incredible, the cinematography is beautiful, the story is compelling. It is (including an intermission) over 3 hours long, which is ambitious in a day and age when people's attention span is only 30 seconds. It's a choice to make a film that long: it's an epic journey.

It's really quite an eerie film, and this sense of eerie builds until it climaxes when Lazlo and Van Buren go to Italy. Having watched Corbet's Childhood of a Leader, I think it's obvious that eeriness is something he wants to generate in his films. The score really helps to achieve this.

I think that this film is about success, and about control, and of course the American dream. What lengths is Lazlo willing to go to to achieve his visions, how much control over his vision is he willing to concede etc. The one-on-one conversations between Toth and Van Buren are very interesting, and Van Buren thinks so too, as he constantly reminds Toth. I get the sense that, through the comparisons between his pointless anecdotes and Lazlo's philosophies on art, he comes off as somewhat jealous, as, for all his wealth, he is incapable of the artistic endeavours himself.

My immediate reaction to the epilogue was that it was unnecessary. Not bad, it's stylish and, albeit a tonal shift. Having thought about it more, I actually find it really interesting. Bringing up the Holocaust and the death camps in the last few lines of an over 3 hour film, having very deliberately avoided it until that point is quite interesting. The tongue in cheek final line about destinations, from a character who barely knew Lazlo's journey, is honestly hilarious. If this came across to you as Zionist in anyway you wholly missed the point.

In all, I really enjoyed this film. Probably my favourite new release for a long time, I hope it inspires more ambitious films, and wins many awards.

Chilling ending

Fantastic score

Really good cinematography

Very beautiful, very whimsical

"I'd rather be a pig than a fascist" goes hard

Second half is one of the funniest pieces of film I've ever seen

Watched on Tuesday January 28, 2025.

Quite confusing

Rip king

Shaky shaky

Great family movie

Can I step on you Sota-san?

Watched on Monday December 30, 2024.

Advice for anyone who has just killed someone: get a pump.

The rocks best performance?

Almost unforgivable

Why are they even friends?

Some of it is very good. Kind of drags a bit, but I suppose that is the point.

Very intense, you know an explosion is coming but can't predict the exact moment

Watched on Thursday December 26, 2024.

In a million years there won't be men or women...just a whole world of wankers

Scotland

Stella

Watched on Sunday December 22, 2024.

Thing: 😐
Japanese thing: 😮😮😮

A bit dated but quite funny

I cried

Very cool style

I felt sick after watching this

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Sad ending :(

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

I like all the little details you get if you watch it more than once

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Good acid movie

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

I love this movie :) I've watched it many times

The first time I've sat in a cinema and actually wanted to leave the film before the ending. So boring, very orientalist, terrible dialogue, ugly horrible film. Russel crowe appearing at the start did make me laugh tho