Just like Derry Girls, if Derry Girls was set over the "border", was in Irish, and was a brilliant and genuinely frightening horror movie about a family making a deal with the good folk. I understand Irish media perfectly.
(sarcasm).
Genuinely though, this was an excellent psychological folk horror. A lot of the terror was implied (it wasn't particularly gory), and I really like that. I felt scared out of my skull in the same way as I did when…
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cw// SA
i really want to like this film more than i actually do. the premise is excellent - a blow-up sex doll comes to life and falls in love with a DVD rental store worker - and it serves as an exploration into sexual violence and the way women's bodies are treated like commodities, which it does really well. all of the men in her life either want to fuck her or hurt her or hurt her by fucking…
he's a man; and he has a mind; and his mind is torturing him; he's tortured by his manly mind; and nobody believes in him but everyone knows that he's special; and the women in his life all want to f*ck him; because of his manly man mind; his manly man man mind; they all think he's marvelous, but are jealous when he f*cks other women; because women are crazy; it's because they don't have manly minds; but Oppenheimer has…
really beautiful film about love, grief, and the effects of generational trauma, in a way that feels very particular to queer experiences (especially gay and bisexual men). honestly, it feels like the director was especially attempting to achieve a form of closure and healing for the generation that endured both AIDS and Section 28, but the story resonates for all ages of queer people. the story is sad, but there are moments of light. it's fucking gorgeous. ugly tears. go watch it.
