The best movie ever made that I totally understand why somebody might consider it one of the worst.
Something darkly oppressive about baroque in black-and-white. Without the colour, perhaps all that's left is the violent power it's meant to simultaneously reflect and obscure.
The extras, abstracted from personhood by their unnerving stillness, part of the set more than part of the cast, even when they speak their repetitive dialogue.
A game you can't lose is no game at all. But…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
My understanding of this one had always been that it's about four witnesses of the same event sharing their contradictory good-faith accounts of it to a court. "That's not how I remember it," and all that. A tale of how human memory is subjective, can not be objective.
But that's not what Rashomon is about at all: It's about four witnesses of the same event choosing, one way or another, to actively lie about what they saw.
Tajōmaru the bandit…
So clearly the inspiration for an entire mode of $crooge story that it's hard not to feel like I'm handling a primary text here, a source document for an entire cornerstone of the mythos that has most defined my life.
Impossible to disconnect from how foundational a work this is to me, and that's-- It's hard to be normal about that.
But like, it's also just instantly one of my favourite westerns. Up there with The Ox-Bow Incident. One of…
Rare good live-action Disney remake.
Absolutely not free of issues; why do we need two separate bands of seven characters taking Snow White's side, it's so doing its own thing with it all that it sometimes feels like it's doing the Apple because you have to do the Apple more than that it makes sense to do the Apple, everything about any monarchy has inherent problems, both Snow White's and Jonathan's big end-of-act-two conflicts are resolved exactly one scene later,…
This is alright, but you can tell this is by the Every Frame a Painting guy and not by, say, an Every Script Page a Novel guy. If you know what I mean. Looks great, though. It's all very deliberate.
The first sixty of these 77 minutes are trash. At best it's disposable, and at worst it's openly vile and toxic about mental health issues and what might drive a person to suicide. In the middle of those two extremes it's also very dumb about the internet. And not in the fun way a dumb slasher about a cursed phone or whatever can be, it's more like how your parents or your dumbest uncle can be dumb about the internet.…
