“Do you know how civilizations end? It’s when stupidity is accelerated.” —> Oh god, wait, really? Oh no.
This starts to come together once the title of the film is spoken on the bus, where we come to know that perhaps something unequivocally sinister—the devil, probably—is the force that propels and governs humans in motion. This is where, in his least stylized film, Bresson the artist panics and puts his sweaty imprint on a film more than anywhere else…
“Look at his Instagram, okay—he was at the protest against the conquistador statue.”
“There were white supremacists there.”
“Read the caption.”
“‘It’s a good day?’”
“Yeah. There’s an indigenous woman in the photo holding a protest sign.”
“There’s militia in the photo. How do you know that ‘it’s a good day’ isn’t referring to the militia shooting a protester?”
“She’s in the center of the frame, the militias are more to the side of the frame—she’s obviously the focus. Whit,…
Logging for the first time in a long time. Probably missing a lot of movies I watched recently. Thought I should give this one a shout out. This is really great tbh, surprised me a lot. Guadagnino has legit chops imo, and Mukdeeprom is the best doing it right now.
Loved watching, a lot to like. Love that he’s allowed to make movies with these kinds of performances in it lol. Is it great or up to Bong’s standard? No. Probably wish he went forward with something else. Parasite had to buy him at least one or two more blank check movies hopefully, though.
This is what Francis Ford Coppola was talking about when he envisioned “live cinema”.
“I’m a big fan of honesty and candor.”
-Tim in crisis, dressed up as Pinocchio
