when you're fucking with the rich russian, but they hired the wrong pack of shit-cleaners
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somehow because of all the hype and the accolades (*cough cough* A LOT of oscars) this film garnered, i was expecting a much more "complex / profound / deep" story of a sex worker
on the contrary, i was laughing, clapping, cheering, ooh-ing, feeling dumb-founded (due to the stupidity and the absurdness), searching online whether i needed to understand the russian dialogue to fully…
yasss 100% intelligence definitely makes you cunty
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i seriously didn't expect to enjoy watching this film this much
very clever dialogue that makes viewers guess and (quickly) figure what the twists will be, which means there aren't mind-blowing moments in this film. but somehow the predictability paired up with the (silly) humor, the cheesiness but still very empowering, the "unpolishness" of a B-horror / indie film, the vulgarity, the rawness, the appreciation for the genres, all together create such a delightful watching experience.
maybe, you don't really have to re-invent the wheel. maybe, all you need is love.
(screened at SGIFF 2023)
such an interesting experience of watching this film
part dark comedy, part horror, part sci-fi, this film (as to the director shared at the end of the screening) took a lot of inspiration from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, which resulted in a surrealistic and thought-provoking nightmare of people stuck in a rat race, constantly fighting for the upper level / the “ceiling”, only when to reach it they realize that…
(screened at SGIFF 2023)
holy. mother. fucking. hell.
i rememeber knowing before going into the theatre that this will be a documentary. But I quickly questioned myself after the first few minutes.
imagine the dollhouses in “Hereditary”, but make it bigger, and make it more complex, and add the raw unfiltered lens of the documentary genre, and pair that with the theme of “white lies”, involving in not just personal history, family history, but even national history.
it was absurd,…
