Volcano surfing
is a sport in which a person
rides down an active volcano
at speeds up to 50 miles per hour
using nothing but a wooden board.
When I heard about this activity,
I thought to myself,
it must be nice to feel so safe,
you have to invent new ways to
put yourself in danger.
When the body
thinks it may be swallowing its last breath,
the adrenal glands release hormones into the blood,
the skin becomes a…
The Brutalist is that typically shallow Oscar bait trope, containing characters and dialogues of zero depths, which me and my elder brother used to fall for as teenagers in the name of logging all the nominated cinemas before the Oscar event, just so that we can predict the winners.
Nevertheless, which shouldn't have been enough reason I would have loathed this cinema as much as I do.
I believed I was going to the theatre to watch the story of…
The Matrix meets Thanos meets Wong-Kar-wai meets Guy Maddin meets nods to so many other films and filmmakers, I can't even, while still having Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's authentic, eccentric, metaphysical signatures written all over it to provide you surreal, therapeutic ecstasy in a 2 hours and 20 minutes of joyride, especially if you're having a bad day, or a bad week, or a bad month, or a bad life in general.
Just be a rock
and enjoy.
- Do you believe in soul mates?
- Yeah, I do. I think, on the Earth, we all have, like, a ton of soul mates. I think for you, maybe, it's like a special case where you only have a few.. who, like, could be and really are your soul mates. But most of the people in the world aren't your soul mate.
- How many soul mates?
- For you, like, four.
- Four?
- Yeah, four soul mates.…
