So much to chew on, but what continues to stick with me is the idea that we’re so far up our own asses looking to meet our needs/desires that if we ever make something smart enough to murder us we will have been far too busy trying to monetize and/or fuck it to notice.
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The Northman 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Without wanting to keep him in a box he has no obligation to continue occupying, Eggers’ weakest period design to date. Can probably (EDIT: can definitely) assign some of that to studio meddling since the cut so clearly prefers action to place and tone, desperate to find someone doing or saying something, but he also seems to have thrived on the limitations of his first two features, both in budget and premise. Cannot abide assertions that this is “beautifully” shot, strictly at…
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Lawrence of Arabia 1962
The US didn’t go to the moon to beat the Russians, but to beat David Lean at making people look like tiny things in an enormous world.
When Lawrence gets back to Cairo, the whole national project he’s spent the past two hours explicitly indifferent to goes into full mobilization. The horizontal space turns vertical, the music stately and gleeful. It’s masterfully upsetting.
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Three Little Wolves 1936
I liked the part where the pigs thought they were being propositioned for a threesome.
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Django Unchained 2012
It’d be easy to say I know what y’all are talking about when you call this technically mediocre and politically disgusting and leave it at that.
Fact is, I don’t. The transmutability of story, both forward in the Brunhilde tale’s resonance in a new time and place and backward through the revisionism that positions Django to receive it, not simply as romantic fairytale but as necessary liberation. “I know how he feel.” And not as the self-conscious leader of a…
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