Good but unbearably tragic.
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My Own Private Idaho 1991
Far from the wholesome gay-romance movie I was expecting. I figured the motorcycle shots were them riding off into the sunset, not riding out to meet Phoenix’s incestuous family.
Amazing movie though. What stood out to me is how Reeve’s character treats the their lifestyle as a game. He has the safety net of his father and money. For everyone else it isn’t a game, it’s real life. Not only do they not have a backup plan, they have no resources to make a primary plan either.
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Glass Onion 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The more I think about the Glass Onion, the more disappointed I become. The first half provides the mystery. The second explains how, in the most complicated way, the answer is the simplest possible. Perfectly aligned with Johnson’s allegorical Glass Onion; there’s several layers, but you can see the center through all of them. While the metaphor is easy to appreciate, the film is not.
I had heard the woes about the non-linear structure before I watched it, and I…
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Fire of Love 2022
As a result of my love for going into movies with as little knowledge of them as possible, I got out of Fire of Love something much different than expected.
The title and the trailer I had seen suggested to me that this film would be firstly documenting the romance of Maurice and Katia, and secondly informational on volcanoes. Instead what I got was rather existential, more concerned with why the couple bothered at all with volcanic research than anything else.…
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