Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This movie, a Starship Troopers update for the modern day, did several things very well: the acting, for one, was incredible, including all the side characters: Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, and Patsy Ferran were particularly memorable. The movie was a great take on the expendability and exploitation of modern laborers and the forces that grind them down, and as always Bong Joon Ho's focus on animal cruelty was salient, visceral, and hard to watch. Mark Ruffalo overall did a good…
Did I like this movie? I'm not sure. Have I thought about it every single day since I saw it? Unfortunately, yes. The gore, the meditations on fame, the close-ups of shrimp I could all take or leave, but it turns out that even seemingly basic reflections on aging and beauty are annoyingly, pervasively pertinent.
I just started a new job, which means seeing myself on Zoom and in harsh office lighting much more than I had been before. The…