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The movie:

“We always start with the visible when describe past experience… yet we never stay there for long”- Kent Jones ( from the essay pamphlet inside the Criterion edition.

How could  movie give me such nostalgia for a time I never lived in? Just an absolute joy every time. The sound track is of course perfect, everybody knows it, completely makes the movie and transports you into the era. I cannot believe these characters are the…

This was a really unique pickup from Shudder because it lacks most of the traditional elements of horror. On the other hand it completely makes sense as an artistic decision because this movie is horrifying. 

The political plot mixed with magical realism was absolutely brilliant. I was shook by the end of the movie, I felt sobered by the experience. This movie has so much to say, and it does it in such a powerful way. I plan on watching…

In the essay that accompanies the Criterion edition of this movie Dennis Lim connects this to Jeanne Dielman as a “portrait of female domesticity coming undone”. 

I can’t think of a better way than that to summarize my thoughts after my first viewing of this. It feels like Carol is suffocating in her own reality, her environmental illness is a result of the excruciating surroundings of her day to day life. The conversations with other housewives, her step son and…

Gonna take a bit to really dive into this, maybe watch some of the interviews on the Criterion Channel to supplement my understanding but for now I’ll just note the stuff I’ve gathered on first interpretation. 

• this is clearly about religion 
• his daughter has been altered permanently from the zone 
• I don’t think the room actually is any different from the rest of the zone I think it’s just The Slalker’s place of worship 
• the Chad…