it’s so easy to feel like the reason we don’t make movies like this anymore is because they were made in much simpler times, but i think the beauty of tati is how all encompassing his humanity is still, past all the technological and geopolitical differences. it’s why his films are still so fucking prescient today.
yes he’s mocking us. he’s pointing to all our stupid little inventions and such and telling us that we’re in over our heads. but…
“can we watch something happy now?”
i’m six years old. my parents are out of the house. my brother is playing littlebigplanet in the living room with his friend eason. it’s bedtime, and i’m trying to sleep. but i can’t. i’m afraid. i don’t know what of, the dark maybe. i get out of bed and walk into my parents bedroom - something i did when i couldn’t sleep - hoping to find the comfort that comes from lying in…
my favourite part of this is when professional rapper Big Sean snaps a toddlers neck not even twenty minutes in
this is how you fucking do short horror. has you dreading every turn down a hallway, every new door opened. and the pure terror of *that one scene* is genuinely something that made my heart race. cannot recommend this enough.
