“This is too fuckin' big for you, you know that? Who did the president, who killed Kennedy, fuck man! It's a mystery!… The fuckin' shooters don't even know! Don't you get it?”
Oliver Stone pulls off such a wonderful feat with this film as he realises that the greatest way to explain the dense riddle of the Kennedy case is to portray it on screen exactly as he believes it occurred (and for my money how it probably did occur).…
“When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church”
Probably Scorsese’s most cynical piece while also easily being his funniest. The Departed is crafted in the total fucking mess that was post 9/11 America where no one played for the side they said they were playing for and in the end it didn’t really matter. I don’t think I really got this film when I first saw it cause it…
“You know, Lee. There's a long history of this in Catholicism. The monks used to wear thorns on their temples. And the nuns, they wore them sewn inside their clothing. You are part of a great tradition”
This film is fucking mad. Totally fucking mad. And I really liked it. I’m seeing a lot of reviews here trying to wrestle with like ‘what does this film say about self love and self harm and independence and sexuality and freedom and’…
“Is there a better description of a cube than that of its construction?“
When I first saw people posting about that upside down Statue of Liberty shot I thought it looked a little hokey, the symbol of liberty inverted wow what are we saying here I wonder. Then while sitting in the cinema, in the first opening moments of the film, I saw Brody’s Lazslo emerge into the sunlight and the camera violently whipped up to the sky only to…
