This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This is the movie that America needs now. It is also evidence that the way that the mainstream views human consciousness is not only false, but demonstrably so. In fact, it might be proof of the existence of God. Let that sink in before continuing.
Ready?
This film contains specific references drawn from headlines in American politics from the past year. References to a failed assassination attempt that nearly solved everything but resulted merely in a scratch that could be…
We need more films that tell our stories. The Great Lie in America is that stories like this are black cinema. This is American cinema and it is stories about America and the impact on Americans. When America kills Americans, when it incarcerates them under false pretenses, when it tortures and abuses them, Americans need to know their own stories and their own history. The color of a person’s skin does not determine the right to access or identify with…
The more I think about Megalopolis, the more I love it. I won't say that the film itself, with the exception of its leading lady, was perfect and the best that it could be. But the idea of it and even the intention.
Greece had the Iliad/Odyssey. Rome had the Aeneid. The Medievals had Dante and Chaucer then Shakespeare. Coppola consciously entered the tradition. He used an elevated version of colloquial American speech--pragmatic, direct, economical but forceful, like the language…
In a way, for me, films are the closest we get to dreams. We speak in images and try to create as much meaning, symbolism, and subtext within those images as we can. The more that you can allow yourself to play with that dream logic—… all of a sudden you are pulled out of this straightforward realism and into something else.
—Mona Fastvold
