I'll never stop loving these movies!
There are three quintessential parts that contribute to my perception of American suburbs and their middle class population plus my undying (as well as unreflected) love for that American way of life:
1. the TV show The Middle
2. (almost) all of David Lynch's movies
3. this utterly perfect Diary of a Wimpy Kid trilogy
Well, Lynch movies are normally pretty hard to understand... But while I always found myself to at least grasp a little of what's going on, even on the first watch, I didn't get what was happening in Inland Empire AT ALL.
Now, I'm not saying this film doesn't make sense or anything, I'm probably just too stupid or haven't paid enough attention or whatever... But I just didn't get it. I would definitely like to revisit this movie some day…
It's shocking as always, but it's especially shocking in times like these, to see a film like Wicked. It's shocking at a time when xenophobia, racism and plain hate against immigrants are on the rise once again: in America but also in Europe. At a time when a neo-fascist, right-wing extremist party is once again polling second in Germany.
You'd think we Germans should have – finally (!) – learnt our lesson. But once again a scapegoat is crafted. Because…
A great adaptation of a perfect book
Dune suffers the same necessity all films that are based on a huge amount of lore must face: one hell of an exposition dump. Having read the book in the last two weeks, the exposition was especially obvious for me but I don't know what else they could've done instead, either. Because you need those many facts to fully grasp the volume of this universe and its underlying themes.
What the film translates…
