A friend of mine has a great rubric for how to evaluate a film. Ask yourself, what did the filmmakers want to do here? Did they do it?
If you want to make a film about say…zombie kangaroos that doesn’t take itself too seriously, then fine. There can be at minimum a fun escapist film there.
Rippy however, takes itself excruciatingly seriously.
I just had to ask myself, why?
Does a film about a killer…
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Rippy 2024
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The Collector 2009
One way to read the “The Collector” is as a profound philosophical treatise that debates the relative lethality of falling backwards into a floor full of steel bear traps versus a chandelier full of knives falling on your head.
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One kills your in your tracks, the other you apparently just walk away from.
The other is as a double home invasion/monster(?)/teenage sex romp film.
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The Substance 2024
I’m trying to think if I’ve ever felt such a wide gap in filmmaking than between Coralie Fargeat’s previous film “Revenge” and her new film “The Substance”.
Thematically, many of the concepts are similar. Men are assholes who are only interested in exploiting and profiting off the aesthetics of women’s bodies.
Speaking of aesthetics, both films are off the chart. Beautiful to look at, amazing color palettes, and creative camera angles everywhere.
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Anatomy of a Fall 2023
Anatomy of a Fall is ostensibly a courtroom drama about whether a woman murdered or husband or whether he killed himself.
I say ostensibly because it’s not really the currency the film is most preoccupied with. By the time we reach a verdict, the film has put us through such an emotional ringer that the outcome seems almost immaterial to the emotional carnage that preceded it.
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