Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Just bonkers. A young, playful Washington in top form + Reggae + a whodunit + random and wonderful dance sequences out of nowhere + a buddy movie + some kind of environmental storytelling before it really was a thing. Plus a reggae reinterpretation of a Bob Dylan Song, I mean, come on (or as Zendaya would scream: COME OOOOON).
This is one of these "did you ever watch... no? Then I know what we'll do right now"-gems.
Sometimes I think about the phenomenon of living with a movie, of unfurling it in your daily life. It certainly cannot be debated over the reasons - if there are some to name at all - you choose a particular movie over another or, maybe more correctly, the particular movie chooses you. If that happens, you might think of a certain scene or a character's decisions or the charater's view of life or a mood or something different; an editing…
An almost perfect movie. Every single frame is mesmerizing. Hamaguchi's intuition for time, space, confrontation and rhythm seems to be flawless. A movie with profound power and confidence and grace.