Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I think the conceptualisation of grief cinema in the recent past (particularly queer cinema, although this was not) have been really interestingly executed. Hoard, in using the centrifuge of grief to spin across a tale of manipulation, trauma, and regression, incites empathy in its confusion and mania.
Grieving is not pretty, and the film certainly doesn’t romanticise or idealise the process, but in trying to cause discomfort, it jumped a step into repulsion instead. I think there were maybe better…
Stunning commentary on current life and the use of the past is intentional and synthetic. Its criticisms of the system it lives in, and the framing of antagonists and “protagonists” in the film, are dynamic.
It uses simple everyday experiences to deliberately make the audience rethink their position in society. The way it highlights and fleshes out the pasts of characters that could have been overlooked in the mission of the current-day plot of the film, feels deliberate in how…
The things about this film that stuck out to me were not given any real regard by anyone who wrote a description for it, or even by the people who decided to title it “Music”- in fact, I found the actual use of music in the film incredibly dissonant. There was no harmony, or rhythm, or symphony to be found. Any real narrative surrounding music was not evolved by the filmmaker. It did not use music correctly. I did like…