Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Station Eleven is a beautiful, near masterpiece of editing and production threading an emotional narrative of the collapse or civilization while blissfully skipping the apocalypse genre staples of survivalist drama, aptly reinforced by the Traveling Symphony and it’s motto “Survival is insufficient.” It’ minor flaw rests in certain plot elements, particularly around the Prophet character.
Ridley Scott is right and you should feel bad for not seeing the “The Last Duel” last year.
While the box office returns are probably due to a global pandemic, poor marketing, a niche film subject, or some combination thereof rather than shithead millennials, it is absolutely correct that this film unfairly flopped, as it is unequivocally one of the better films of 2021. “The Last Duel” is not just good, it is very good, and debatably ranks near the upper end of Ridley Scott’s filmography.
The mesmerizing beauty of "1917" is owed to its dedicated perception as a one-shot film. This continuous motion aesthetic is unequivocally a mastercraft of unparalleled editing and cinematography. The concept itself is the key story mechanic, slogging our chum characters along and creating an acute sense of time and setting, directly conveying the desperation of the unfolding drama.
In the way that fiction can capture the essence of a real event, "1917" showcases the utter waste and carnage of this…