This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
As the film opens in a WeWork office, an array of insert shots lay bare the inner workings to set the stage. The camera glides through the space to finally reveal The Killer, with his first words cutting through the silence:
It’s amazing how physically exhausting it can be to do nothing. If you’re unable to endure boredom, this work is not for you.
He’s speaking directly to us, offering a glimpse into his world and its peculiar challenges. It’s…
Grand Tour presents a fragmented meditation on the enduring consequences of colonialism in Central and East Asia. The film positions the narrative as an artifact in a landscape where historical memory is both preserved and distorted. The story, rendered in a romantic and melancholic vein, finds itself in a dialectical conflict with the documentary images that interrupt it. These images, never fully absorbed by the narrative, assert their presence with an almost cold determinism that forces the viewer to confront…
All hail! Probably Park's most experimental approach to the narrative. Hitchcock would've cum so easily if he could see this!
Confucius said: "Wise people like water. Benevolent people like mountains."
I am not benevolent.
I like the sea.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Dreams are the messages from the Deep.
Dune: Part One begins with a whisper from the abyss, but it doesn’t announce itself as a dream; instead, it is a calculated descent into the geopolitical, anthropological, and ecological intricacies of Arrakis. Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi tome isn't a mere retelling but a feverish voyage through a world dictated by visions and the maddening logic of dialectical montage. Scenes blend and bleed into each other, as if the narrative itself…
