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really delightful to see this for the second time in theaters!!!
first viewing was so obviously about fatherhood and like. self loathing to me? but the second viewing it’s also so clearly interrogating motherhood and womanhood as well?
the strange behavior of Mrs. X—oscillating between a violently protective mother who is clearly the head of the house to a woman frantically kissing Henry despite him being involved with her daughter. Mary herself being someone that Henry wanted to be around…
*guy who just saw snowpiercer* getting a lot of snowpiercer vibes from this….
really wanted to like this more than I did! there were 17 (ha) movies I really wanted to see trapped in a single film—it was doing quite a bit and it muddled the the whole thing.
really fun moments! delightful comedy! horrible trump commentary in this year unfortch
hated this so bad (affectionate)
wow this was so interesting…. incredible imagery and horrifying sound mixing. employs all my favorite bits of surrealism and body horror to make our internal fears reality.
what if you lived in a city you were afraid of. what if you have a child and you don’t recognize them. worse—what if you have a child and they look just like you but what you are is horrible. worse still—what if what you are, the slimy…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I think I need to sit with this one more but I enjoyed it quite a bit! I think it needs to be shorter (a tight 90 is haunting the narrative) and overall could be more weird! like this feels like freak shit for normies—I wish it got meaner and grosser and freakier but i also could just be insane!
i wish there was more in the first act, the yearning the tension the build up, and less of the…
