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I love dreamy movies
"Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way."
Kierkegaard
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
To view Under the Silver Lake as pretentious is to fully miss the allegory. The film is self-aware of the nonsense mystery, the sexualized imagery, and the depths that appear deep but are rather shallow. And thus the intent surfaces: the mystery exists for the sake of experiencing a mystery (and for the scriptwriter to pay his overdue rent).
"Hollywood, Hollywood", the parrot squeaks and immersion ensues.