It’s “to the point” anti gun postscript leaves the intended impression, mostly. the most disturbing moments are when the armory are purchased, and Judy Davis is strong. Otherwise, this is “well made” dreariness porn, using cinematic beats to fill in the gaps of what can’t be known. There’s nothing new here, amongst the other portraits of spree killers, other than the specifics of “this guy” and the facts of “this incident.” Part of a now established genre, if it were, done with…
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The Killing of Two Lovers 2020
Anybody else think he was gonna crash the pickup on the way to the park with all his kids sitting in the front? “Keep your eyes on the road man!”
A brooding tone and formality. That sound design….the fact that the lead character is empathetic after the way we’re introduced to him (In the context of the title too) is unique.Sparse and intense
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Vive L'Amour 1994
Loneliness in the city. Like a filmed Edward Hopper painting moved to Taiwan with a splash of Antonioni, can't think of another film that captures a type of isolation in modern urban life as well as Vive l'Amour. When there's no one to come home to, when you realize that life is not what you dreamt when you were a child; when sex, empty sex, is the only thing you can do to "feel."
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017
Great title, great poster, great synopsis, accomplished creator gives this an expectation of quality:
but mostly McDonagh is doing a broad, faux regional Americana crime thing. It's as if the Coen Brothers were making Fargo, but had no experience of the Minnesota/North Dakota world it took place in.
It's accents and textures are not lived in, they come from the perception of a world through movies and television.
McDonagh is a darkly sardonic and compelling writer, so it's themes of…
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