Almost lost my shit when Elliott Smith’s Twilight started playing! Beyond that… this fucking rocked. I left the theater feeling moved to be a better person/community member + to fight back against complacency, which is one of the most powerful things a piece of art can do?! I’ve been kind of shocked to see that people are lukewarm on this, or feeling like it’s bloated or over-the-top. I think the humor, absurdity, and playfulness made the message more powerful - without that, I wouldn’t have connected with the film as deeply, and it would have felt too flat/self-serious/on the nose.
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Punch-Drunk Love 2002
Often hilarious and visually super compelling but every character was so flat and/or awful I just couldn’t get all the way into it! Shoutout to the pudding scheme tho.
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Poor Things 2023
Was totally engrossed (and often grossed out) while watching this. That grossed-out feeling has steadily grown since I left the theater. I think I get what this film was trying to do––it's an accelerated, exaggerated coming-of-age story about a woman claiming her own power. But the way she does that is almost entirely by fucking––gratuitously, graphically, and unrealistically.
Bella never has any experiences where lines of consent are explicitly crossed, or even trysts that are awkward or unpleasant––and when she…
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