This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
From the word go. From the first memory. It’s all tanks. It’s all construction vehicles, poised to tear down a home that raised generations. It’s hatred a hillside away.
What happens to a person, or a people, brought up, controlled by the fear not of “if” but of “when”?
One answer is: They make a documentary.
Two of the most important tools in Palestine are guns and cameras.
Israel can stop a lot, but it can’t completely stop the permeation…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This is an eerie film, willing to tell a truth, to remind you of the truth you already know, and likely saw play out online.
Early on in The Seed of the Sacred Fig, two young Iranian women, concerned for their friends and themselves, scroll social media (filtered by the government to the point of blurry nonsense) and see their city’s culture and infrastructure deteriorate due to police enforcement of strict societal rules against women, and the consequent resistance against…
Nobody's best work is in this, but it's interesting, and hearing Manson's demoes was bizarre, especially because one ("Look At Your Game Girl") is startlingly good.
Overall, although the book has become famous, this feels kinda beneath Morris. If I hadn't seen his name at the beginning, I would've assumed it was one of many by-the-numbers-directed true crime projects Netflix likes to pump out (which it's not not...)
Edgy-for-edgy's-sake jokes with nothing to say. Iapalucci is a skillful speaker, and should try and write above this 1950s-with-a-modern-twist, I-reminded-you-of-a-negative-thing-now-laugh, mostly hacky material.
"Have you tried giving them casinos?"
Gimme a break.
Sarah Silverman and Anthony Jeselnik successfully (to use Jeselnik's quoted words) "get away with it" because they a) Use the small jokes to imply something greater AKA make even a vague point or two, or b) The jokes are a lot cleverer, and that makes the use of sad history or references in them seem less the star (and dare I say the resultant point) of the show.
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*Checks director* Huh.
Fantastic acting from everyone. Interesting blurring of certain lines, especially by this director. Tons of not-so-subtle phallic-eating and stuff, sometimes I think played for a bit of a winking joke, and other times truly meant to increase tension. It all works in the context of the movie.
A lot of unique stuff placed over top of a kinda rote premise (at this point).
I know it's doing well, but I don't imagine it'll garner the same praise as Call Me By Your Name.
Made me appreciate all three actors a lot more, and I'm looking forward to their future work.
