Interesting to watch this now that early digital aesthetics are coming back into style. People romanticise that era so much, but this plays it all so bleakly. You've got all the consumer electronics and telecommunications advances of the 90s, and all it ends up doing is enabling children to do sex work. I keep thinking about the way Anno deploys security camera footage as well, especially towards the end of the film. There's evidence of these moments on camera, it's…
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All That Jazz 1979
I'm starting to relax my strident anti-musical stance a little, but I maintain that most musicals are still pretty awful experiences because they're not mean enough. All the pomp and circumstance of a musical ends up feeling self-congratulating and masturbatory unless there's something to give it a little bit of edge and self awareness.
For example, All That Jazz, which is like if Bob Fosse put a loaded gun in his mouth as a bit.
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The People's Joker 2022
Megalopolis for people who've made stand up comedy a load-bearing part of their personality
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