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The Substance 2024
Has globalization eradicated camp?
This all felt so wink-wink, nudge-nudge. Not a single character worth caring about; (everyone's an archetype, no one's a person). Instead, every inch of this script is in service of Big Themes, of trying to Say Things about The Modern State Of Affairs For (Incredibly Attractive, Successful White) Women. Which would be all well and good if that material had been delivered by a single character worth giving a shit about; two Elizabeth Sparkles, yet the…
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Anora 2024
That final scene says it all. Love Baker's control of the chaos, with Anora constantly recentering the audience, reminding us to look away from the ultimately low-stakes impending annulment of her shotgun marriage by the Russians and instead fix our gazes on What's Really Going On: the death by 1000 cuts of Anora's personhood.
Today's utter annihilation of media literacy and critical faculties is no big secret, but man, watching the reaction to this one hitting it big around award…
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