“It’s dangerous to confuse children with angels”
“We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us”
A symphony of a movie. A deep, careful, and poignant exploration of trauma, and its effects on our lives and relationships. The ending scene gives me chills every time - it is a profoundly hopeful and triumphant ending. One of a kind movie.
Watching this movie in IMAX was the most fun I’ve had in a movie theater in a long time. This movie is like if classic Coppola and Tommy Wiseau’s The Room had a baby - and I mean that in the best way.
Megalopolis is so confident, so unaware of self-consciousness, and so earnest - it’s a mess the entire time, and it is extremely unapologetically so. Coppola clearly trying his best, in his final hours, to say something meaningful…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I love this movie dearly for a lot of reasons but the main thing that I love about this movie is Caden Cotard.
I don’t love him in a way that I want to be like him - it’s actually the opposite. I love Caden because of how truly and honestly pathetic he is. I love him for his obsessive fears and insecurities. I love him for his complete cowardice when it comes to owning his true feelings. I love…
This movie is one of those very rare instances where it can be entertaining to both low brow and high brow viewers simultaneously, which is an achievement in its own right. A lot of movies usually go full force one way or the another - it’s very rare that movies don’t do that, and this one does not. A part of this is because the movie never takes itself seriously, and can be casually consumed as a funny stoner flick…
