In my now post-the-return life, normal content and emotion in media seems, probably momentarily, obsolete. The only way to even consume art without weighing it against the immensity of episode 18’s haunting is to reach for stuff so off-the-charts that it can’t possibly compute. But I forgot that this movie, in its more poignant moments, can compute. So strongly. Honestly this was so much better than I thought and I think on first viewing I just wanted it to be…
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Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
im going to try tomorrow
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MaXXXine 2024
I’m coming to realise that movies that are almost good are so much more painful than movies that are actually bad. This continues to be so aesthetically perfect and formally really cool with all the footage-style camera stuff going on, and yet structurally it feels completely shapeless. Set piece to set piece without any clear logic in either the content or narrative structure— a good example of this is the random chase scene with the detective guy that kickstarts out…
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Pulp Fiction 1994
I’ve never been sold on the whole seductively-eats-cherries thing but damn if this movie doesn’t make me want to try. I fear it may now be my mission to become Mia Wallace.
This was not quite as funny as I thought it would be (but still funny) and not quite as action-y as I thought it would be (but still action-y) and generally far more dialogue driven than I thought it would be (though people shut up and shoot each other…
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