Perfect double bill: Carrie
A young girl reaches puberty and gains mystical powers that are a danger to herself and those around her.
Perhaps unsurprising that the 1970s film, written and directed by men, portrays this as a horror story. Though perhaps this is the most apt genre to portray the pain and fear and gore of adolescence - the time of one’s life where everything feels so desperately intense.
Meanwhile, Turning Red goes down the much more heartfelt route:…
Perfect double bill: Memento
When you’re suffering from memory loss, who can you trust? For Dory, faith in community is essential for her day to day life. For Memento’s Leonard, nobody can be trusted. For Dory, the discovery of truth is essential to the discovery of the self. For Leonard, there is satisfaction in intentional ignorance.
Funny. Relatable. Really cute little observations. Love the weird little attempts to relate small things back to society and Trump, and the way that everything they preach falls away at the end.
Perfect camp comedy, really does a perfect job of parodying all the homophobic assumptions that were so rampant in the ‘90s and honestly still pretty relevant today. Obsessed with the tackiness of it, the hammy acting, the hideous colours, but I think the thing that sets it apart is the genuinely heartfelt and authentic love story that somehow thrives at the heart of it. At odds with all the melodrama, the romance and characters are treated with such respect, with some really tender downplayed moments that almost shouldn’t work in such an otherwise cheesy film but really truly do.
