Sad, exciting and scary. Most energized I've been about blockbuster filmmaking in a long time.
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Mother 2009
So Bong’s Mother.
All I knew is this was a twisty family drama / whodunit.
What I didn’t expect is an adventure movie (not a surprise at all it was filmed in 2:35- usually reserved for epic landscapes/ fantasy) / modern day re telling of a Grimm’s fairy tale. The movie felt episodic, going from one really off beat interaction to the next.
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The Witch 2015
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The VVitch (yeah I did it) never ceases to scare the shit out of me.
Who wouldn't want to live deliciously when the alternative is lies, madness and repression? What a self fulfilling prophecy it is that Thomasin embraces so-called evil while religious hysteria swirls around her like poisonous gas.
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Carrie 1976
A nightmarish highschool dramaedy where vindication isn't simply triumphing over the bullies but built on their burnt and broken bodies via a macabre massacre. Imagery of religion as a vector of generational trauma contrasted with blood marking milestones and splashed in righteous vengeance. Prom sequence up there with Quint's WW2 monologue, Michael killing Solozzo at Louis, and Ride of the Valkyries as cinematic dynamite I'll never forget.
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