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"Love isn't something we invented... it has to mean something."
Nolan is a lot like Shakespeare. I mean this in the sense that I once heard someone speak on the way Shakespeare’s works have had an overall negative cultural influence. He’s taught in schools as the epitome of prose and academic value, most notably because his writing style is distinctly very very English. His works and his legacy, intentionally or not, reinforce values as to what proficient and high-level writing…
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"IT WAS THOUGH THIS PLAN HAD BEEN WITH HIM ALL HIS LIFE, PONDERED THROUGH THE SEASONS, NOW IN HIS 15TH YEAR CRYSTALLIZED WITH THE PAIN OF PUBERTY."
Donnie Darko is not fake-deep 14 year old boy cinema, I promise you. This review marks my first real step into convincing the world that it belongs in the much more prestigious category of transgender cinema. Let's get into it.
To try and explain Donnie Darko is kind of a fruitless effort if…
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♪ I want to change, I want the pain no more ♪
How does an artist so good at one artform fail so miserably twice over at another? Is it just his choice of creative partner? First Sam Levinson, and now Trey Edward Schulz (Visionary Director of Waves). Dare I say it... should The Weeknd just stick to making music? This tedious & misogynistic masturbation session of a film screams, "YES, PLEASE!"
The moment the film opened with the harpy shrieks…
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"You can't escape the emptiness."
Have they done it? Has the public psychological torture experiment known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe managed to make a good film again? Are we so back? Did Marvel, too, manage to escape the emptiness?
The answer is: kind of?
This is no step forward, instead a brisk jog in place following a long stand-still when all this universe could seem to produce was thoroughly audience-tested cameo fests planned entirely in pre-vis and then reshot…
"Look into 9/11. Look into it, there's some-"
"You think the firefighters did that?"
O'Malley is a genius. I stand firmly in a wholly unironic belief that he's one of the best creatives working right now. This is just as hilarious and layered as every other "type of guy" art he creates. I could've watched footage of this for hours and hours and hours, in fact apparently there's like 70 hours filmed total?? Insane. An aimless movie, with no destination, trying to ascribe meaning and value to whatever can be found through the immortalizing lens of the camera.
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"Quit trying to hold on so tight. I'm gone."
From about 45 minutes onward into this movie, I settled into position on my couch, holding a pillow, shaking and crying. The most upsetting thing I've ever watched. Laura is like a walking corpse throughout this film, only brought to life in brief flashes of hysteria, as the horrific truth of reality enters her mind. Its so gut-wrenching I can barely even bring myself to think about it without wanting to…
