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it is no coincidence that a different man spends more screentime with a man who wears a mask rather than the character with which the mask imitates. to call this film an exploration into deformity is only the most basic and benign interpretation of what may very well be one of the most masterfully written and thought-out black comedies in recent memory; using the simple moral of “we treat those with deformities and disabilities unfairly and maybe that’s wrong” allows schimberg…
critics calling megalopolis “divisive” gave me the impression that this film would be some kind of avant-garde and brave endeavor into the unknown with some elements that worked and some elements that didn’t. after having seen it, I believe calling this film “divisive” is like saying the taste of vomit is divisive. impressively, megalopolis manages to be a failure so impressive on every imaginable front that it immediately makes sense why it seems like the film industry avoided it like the…
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the killer is a goose chase of a film. fincher has a reputation of crafting these protagonists who think they dominate the world, and the killer here is no different; however, where these characters are usually used to make a statement (masculinity, effects of capitalism, etc.), here, the protagonist is simply cold because he is cold. he is ruthless because he is an assassin. he kills because he believes he must.
there is no deeper extractable motivation for anything that the…
We’re all small and stupid.
Please, be kind.
You are not unloveable.
And the universe is so much bigger than you realize.
I will love this movie in every universe.