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my fav movie is moonlight
Alile Sharon Larkin, a film producer and fellow member of the L.A. Rebellion alongside Charles Burnett, describes the realism of Killer of Sheep as validation to her soul: “I experienced African-American visibility on the screen in the sweetness of that slow dance to Dinah Washington’s ‘Bitter Earth.’ I was in my mama’s kitchen. I was a little girl on our backporch. Killer of Sheep taught me that there are infinite ways of making revolution.” A close formal study of two…
how does one make something that is genuinely unique with some amazing sequences yet still throw in every possible music-biopic cliche?
it made me cry though.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Why is everyone glazing this movie?
It’s over 200 minutes long yet not a single theme feels properly developed. It’s billed as an epic yet never truly builds to any moment, it feels like a biopic yet it’s not based on any true story, which makes certain plot choices even more confounding. The two acts are utterly incompatible. When considering from the perspective of the first act, the second act completely fails to build on it or bring the film…
man.
i could watch this film forever i think i really love it. it's so f'ing beautiful and the score i mean the score.