Somehow a lot of the character beats felt like shorthand; the whole “there is something we’re pointedly not talking about” justification doesn’t quite work for me. It’s a good movie; it’s just that there’s a better movie very clearly hiding in there, a draft or two away.
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The Zone of Interest 2023
I’m under no particular illusions about art having world-changing powers of revelation, but this is monumental. Articulate and strikingly thought through. Part of me regrets waiting so long with watching it because I knew several points in advance, but the impact is still very much there. What’s remarkable is that it manages to refute both the perception of the Nazi evil as abstract and otherworldly and the much-invoked “banality of evil”: an arrestingly specific piece of articulation of that “bliss of evil,” as…
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eXistenZ 1999
The chief purpose of this movie seems to be for Cronenberg to grapple with the way an art-form foreign to him challenges his own preconceived narrative-structural notions of art, which is just fun as hell to watch. If that’s not enough, you get Ian Holm doing an accent which is always a good time.
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